Invoking Crisis: Performative Christian Prayer and the Civil Rights Movement

This article explores public Christian prayer in the U.S. civil rights movement. During the eleven years between 1960 and 1970, civil rights activists used performative prayer to foster socially destabilizing crisis by inviting arrest or physical violence, destabilizing the status quo, and drawing n...

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Main Author: Shearer, Tobin Miller 1965- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Oxford University Press [2015]
In: Journal of the American Academy of Religion
Year: 2015, Volume: 83, Issue: 2, Pages: 490-512
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