... politics of God nonviolence faith leaders love justice ...

... in the movement about nonviolence, the role of religion and faith leaders in the public square, respect for the humanity of the adversary, and the relationship between love and justice. politics of God nonviolence faith leaders love justice ...

... of street protests, boycotts, and confrontation with the state troopers and the local Ku Klux Klan, but is also the story of intense debate in the movement about nonviolence, the role of religion and faith leaders in the public square, respect for the humanity of the adversary, and the relationship between...

... Marking the 1830s rather than the 1870s as the genesis of the Black Christian secessionist movement in South Africa, chapter 2 suggests that Ethiopianism cannot simply be understood from the perspective of African church leaders who abandoned mainline Protestant congregations where they once...

... Chapter 4 is a reprise of the book’s timescapes and a plea to “Make Kin Not Babies.” Antiracist, anticolonial, anticapitalist, proqueer feminists of every color and from every people have been leaders in the movement for sexual and reproductive freedom and rights, with particular attention...

... Beginning with 1985, Kingdom Come argues that African clergy led the nation when the government incarcerated, exiled, or killed South Africa's leaders. The introduction suggests that religious activism, largely embodied by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Archbishop Desmond Tutu and other clergy...

... The book closes with a reflective return to the 1980s to consider more deeply the transnational connections that undergird the antiapartheid movement. The tenants of Christianity sometimes clandestinely connected civil rights leaders, historically Black college students, and even progressive...

... them as elites. This chapter relies on church documents, personal correspondence, and newspaper clippings to point to the ways church expansion conformed to the theological and political needs of the Kikuyus. South African leaders equipped Kikuyu Christians by sharing church documents, visiting...

... of Carabuco (La Paz) also included Methodist and Lutheran pastors of Aymara origin—and both creeds were published in the ecumenical journal Fe y Pueblo (Faith and the People) in 1987. They were inspired by the so-called rereadings of the Bible popularized by the Brazilian biblical scholar Carlos Mesters...

... convictions and his Christian faith. When General Hugo Banzer Suárez met with peasant leaders at the Presidential Palace in 1974, he encouraged them to cooperate with the right-wing military regime’s campaign to crush his opponents. The following extract from his speech illustrates not only state...