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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aMatthes, Melissa M.
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245 1 0 _aWhen Sorrow Comes :
_bThe Power of Sermons from Pearl Harbor to Black Lives Matter / /
_cMelissa M. Matthes.
264 1 _aCambridge, MA : :
_bHarvard University Press,
_c[2021]
264 4 _c©2021
300 _a1 online resource (368 p.)
336 _atext
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338 _aonline resource
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505 0 0 _tFrontmatter --
_tContents --
_tIntroduction --
_t1 "Necessary Injustice" --
_t2 We All Killed Kennedy --
_t3 Existential Despair --
_t4 The Church of the National Tragedy --
_t5 God's Celestial Army --
_t6 The Enduring American Crisis --
_tNotes --
_tAcknowledgments --
_tIndex
506 0 _arestricted access
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520 _aSince World War II, Protestant sermons have been an influential tool for defining American citizenship in the wake of national crises. In the aftermath of national tragedies, Americans often turn to churches for solace. Because even secular citizens attend these services, they are also significant opportunities for the Protestant religious majority to define and redefine national identity and, in the process, to invest the nation-state with divinity. The sermons delivered in the wake of crises become integral to historical and communal memory-it matters greatly who is mourned and who is overlooked. Melissa M. Matthes conceives of these sermons as theo-political texts. In When Sorrow Comes, she explores the continuities and discontinuities they reveal in the balance of state power and divine authority following the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the assassinations of JFK and MLK, the Rodney King verdict, the Oklahoma City bombing, the September 11 attacks, the Newtown shootings, and the Black Lives Matter movement. She argues that Protestant preachers use these moments to address questions about Christianity and citizenship and about the responsibilities of the Church and the State to respond to a national crisis. She also shows how post-crisis sermons have codified whiteness in ritual narratives of American history, excluding others from the collective account. These civic liturgies therefore illustrate the evolution of modern American politics and society. Despite perceptions of the decline of religious authority in the twentieth century, the pulpit retains power after national tragedies. Sermons preached in such intense times of mourning and reckoning serve as a form of civic education with consequences for how Americans understand who belongs to the nation and how to imagine its future.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 18. Sep 2023)
650 0 _aChurch and state
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aChurch and state
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y21st century.
650 0 _aCrisis management
_zUnited States
_xReligious aspects
_xChristianity.
650 0 _aReligion and civil society
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aReligion and civil society
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y21st century.
650 0 _aTopical preaching
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y20th century.
650 0 _aTopical preaching
_zUnited States
_xHistory
_y21st century.
650 4 _aRELIGION / Religion, Politics & State
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653 _aAmerican political identity.
653 _aAntigone.
653 _aJFK assassination.
653 _aMLK assassination.
653 _aNewtown School Shooting.
653 _aOklahoma Bombing.
653 _aPearl Harbor.
653 _aRodney King uprising.
653 _aSermons.
653 _aTrayvon Martin.
653 _achurch/state.
653 _acivil society.
653 _amourning.
653 _apreaching.
653 _apulpit.
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856 4 0 _uhttps://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674259973
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