Sarah Azaransky
Biographic Data
| ID | 1179313 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sarah Azaransky |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sarah |
| FAMILY NAME | Azaransky |
| SIGNATURE | AZARANSKY S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Union Theological Seminary, New York, New York |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
To Live Peaceably: The American Friends Service Committee's Campaign for Open Housing
The United States of India: Anticolonial Literature and Transnational Refraction
Manan Desai's The United States of India focuses on a network of Indian and American writers and activists who met in the United States in the 1910s and 1920s. Desai uses the metaphor of refraction to describe how these writers came to understand themselves and the American scene. Unlike reflection, which depicts a true replication, refraction describes what happens when light changes direction or enters a medium with a different density. Desai a…
Everyday Ethics: Moral Theology and the Practices of Ordinary Life, edited by Michael Lamb and Brian A. Williams
Moral Leadership of the World
In the 1950s, Cold War politics made anticolonial alliances between Africans, Asians, and black Americans suspect, as the demands of governing—as opposed to coordinating a freedom movement—redirected energies and attention. Yet India and Ghana, in particular, remained concrete examples for the network at the center of this book. Benjamin Mays returned to India in 1953 to witness the world’s largest democracy composed of people of color. Bayard Ru…
We Can Add to the World Justice
Bayard Rustin, James Farmer, and Pauli Murray developed a black Christian pacifism inspired by Gandhian nonviolence. Their activist projects in the 1940s, including sit-ins, freedom rides, and multicity marches, became mainstays of the later civil rights movement. While working with majority-white organizations like the Fellowship of Reconciliation and interracial organizations like the Congress of Racial Equality, Murray, Rustin, and Farmer neve…
Spiritual Recognition of Empire
This chapter examines how international travel influenced a network of black Christian activists and intellectuals who developed theological and political responses to Jim Crow in the mid-1930s. Chief among them was Howard Thurman, who led a delegation of black Christians on a five-month speaking tour of India. The chapter explores how India challenged Thurman to articulate a black Christian theological perspective in light of colonialism and seg…
Epilogue
After 1959, there was a flowering of black internationalism and black religious internationalism among a new generation of activists and intellectuals—in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee’s trip to Africa, in Malcolm X’s citizen diplomacy, and in Stokely Carmichael’s 1967 journey to Cuba, North Vietnam, China, and Guinea....
This Worldwide Struggle: Religion and the International Routes of the Civil Rights Movement
This book examines a group of black Christian intellectuals and activists who looked abroad, even in other religious traditions, for ideas and practices that could transform American democracy. From the 1930s to the 1950s, this network of intellectuals and activists drew lessons from independence movements around the world for an American campaign that would be part of a global network of resistance to colonialism and white supremacy. This book a…
Lived Theology: New Perspectives on Method, Style, and Pedagogy
As an academic discipline, theology has often ignored the lived social consequences of its varied convictions. Although there is no shortage of interdisciplinary activity in contemporary theological studies, in recent years we have observed—and learned important lessons from—theological engagements with ethnography, anthropology, geography, critical theory, oral history, and the social sciences. Such interdisciplinary efforts have enabled theolog…
Citizenship in Jesus and the Disinherited: From Black Internationalism to Whiteness on the Contemporary Border
This article argues that Thurman’s engagement with citizenship in Jesus and the Disinherited is a helpful resource for addressing contemporary realities of racism and US citizenship. The article traces the historical context of Black internationalism that shaped Thurman’s religious and political perspective, and examines how a discussion of citizenship frames Thurman’s argument in the book. This work analyzes Thurman’s call for an “unscrambling p…
The Dream Is Freedom: Pauli Murray and American Democratic Faith
Pauli Murray (1910–85) was a poet, lawyer, activist, and priest, as well as a significant figure in the civil rights and women's movements. Throughout her careers and activism, Murray espoused faith in an American democracy that is partially present and yet to come. In the 1940s Murray was in the vanguard of black activists to use nonviolent direct action. A decade before the Montgomery bus boycott, Murray organized sit-ins of segregated restaura…
A Roundtable Discussion on Charles Taylor's Book A Secular Age
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A Roundtable Discussion on Charles Taylor's Book A Secular Age
The Dream Is Freedom: Pauli Murray and American Democratic Faith
Pauli Murray (1910–85) was a poet, lawyer, activist, and priest, as well as a significant figure in the civil rights and women's movements. Throughout her careers and activism, Murray espoused faith in an American democracy that is partially present and yet to come. In the 1940s Murray was in the vanguard of black activists to use nonviolent direct action. A decade before the Montgomery bus boycott, Murray organized sit-ins of segregated restaura…
Citizenship in Jesus and the Disinherited: From Black Internationalism to Whiteness on the Contemporary Border
This article argues that Thurman’s engagement with citizenship in Jesus and the Disinherited is a helpful resource for addressing contemporary realities of racism and US citizenship. The article traces the historical context of Black internationalism that shaped Thurman’s religious and political perspective, and examines how a discussion of citizenship frames Thurman’s argument in the book. This work analyzes Thurman’s call for an “unscrambling p…
Lived Theology: New Perspectives on Method, Style, and Pedagogy
As an academic discipline, theology has often ignored the lived social consequences of its varied convictions. Although there is no shortage of interdisciplinary activity in contemporary theological studies, in recent years we have observed—and learned important lessons from—theological engagements with ethnography, anthropology, geography, critical theory, oral history, and the social sciences. Such interdisciplinary efforts have enabled theolog…
Moral Leadership of the World
In the 1950s, Cold War politics made anticolonial alliances between Africans, Asians, and black Americans suspect, as the demands of governing—as opposed to coordinating a freedom movement—redirected energies and attention. Yet India and Ghana, in particular, remained concrete examples for the network at the center of this book. Benjamin Mays returned to India in 1953 to witness the world’s largest democracy composed of people of color. Bayard Ru…
We Can Add to the World Justice
Bayard Rustin, James Farmer, and Pauli Murray developed a black Christian pacifism inspired by Gandhian nonviolence. Their activist projects in the 1940s, including sit-ins, freedom rides, and multicity marches, became mainstays of the later civil rights movement. While working with majority-white organizations like the Fellowship of Reconciliation and interracial organizations like the Congress of Racial Equality, Murray, Rustin, and Farmer neve…
Spiritual Recognition of Empire
This chapter examines how international travel influenced a network of black Christian activists and intellectuals who developed theological and political responses to Jim Crow in the mid-1930s. Chief among them was Howard Thurman, who led a delegation of black Christians on a five-month speaking tour of India. The chapter explores how India challenged Thurman to articulate a black Christian theological perspective in light of colonialism and seg…
Epilogue
After 1959, there was a flowering of black internationalism and black religious internationalism among a new generation of activists and intellectuals—in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee’s trip to Africa, in Malcolm X’s citizen diplomacy, and in Stokely Carmichael’s 1967 journey to Cuba, North Vietnam, China, and Guinea....
This Worldwide Struggle: Religion and the International Routes of the Civil Rights Movement
This book examines a group of black Christian intellectuals and activists who looked abroad, even in other religious traditions, for ideas and practices that could transform American democracy. From the 1930s to the 1950s, this network of intellectuals and activists drew lessons from independence movements around the world for an American campaign that would be part of a global network of resistance to colonialism and white supremacy. This book a…
Everyday Ethics: Moral Theology and the Practices of Ordinary Life, edited by Michael Lamb and Brian A. Williams
The United States of India: Anticolonial Literature and Transnational Refraction
Manan Desai's The United States of India focuses on a network of Indian and American writers and activists who met in the United States in the 1910s and 1920s. Desai uses the metaphor of refraction to describe how these writers came to understand themselves and the American scene. Unlike reflection, which depicts a true replication, refraction describes what happens when light changes direction or enters a medium with a different density. Desai a…
To Live Peaceably: The American Friends Service Committee's Campaign for Open Housing
Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Law (7 works) · Philosophy (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Race, History, and American Society (6 works) · History (5 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Religion, Society, and Development (4 works) · Civil rights (3 works)