Jesse Jackson and the Symbolic Politics of Black Christendom
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 9751078 |
|---|---|
| Authors | James Melvin Washington (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1985 |
| Volume | 480 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 89-105 |
| Publication date | 1985-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002716285480001008 |
| OpenAlex | W2118910880 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 7 |
This article examines the significance of the Reverend Jesse Jackson's bid for the Democratic party's presidential nomination. Jackson's candidacy represents a new use of political revivalism, an old evangelical political praxis recast in the modalities of African American Christian culture. This praxis is an aspect of American political culture that has often been overlooked because of past misunderstandings of American folk religion in general, and black Christianity in particular, as captives of an otherworldly and privatized spirituality. This article contends that black Christianity has an identifiable and coherent political style with both passive and active moods. The dominant manifestations of these moods are, respectively, political cynicism and political revivalism, which are the consequence of the correct folk perception that it is impossible to reason with the purveyors of the absurdities of racial injustice. A critical assessment of black Christianity's political symbolic capital seems appropriate
Aesthetics · Christianity · Cynicism · Democracy · Political culture · Political science · Politics · Politics of the United States · Praxis · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Political Theory and Influence · Religion and Society Interactions · Religious studies
Race, Politics, and Religion in Civil Religion among Blacks
The Rhetorical Presidency
Cities as battlefields
Black Clergy, Electoral Participation, and Interest Representation
Church Culture as a Strategy of Action in the Black Community
Something Within
Identification and Separatism
Region, Religious Commitment, and Life Satisfaction Among Black Americans
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,22 |
| Citation span | 1989 - 2007 (19) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 8 |