Prophecy without Contempt

Kaveny, M. Cathleen

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“…Indebted to the Puritans, it is modeled on the fiery condemnations of wrongdoing attributed to biblical prophets such as Isaiah, Jeremiah, and Hosea. 8 Over time, the religious worldview of the Puritans has faded from the nation's consciousness. But their distinctive rhetorical style has been adapted by cultural critics of successive generations, both religious and secular.…”

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Challenges for the Pro-Life Movement in a Post-Roe Era

Kaveny

2023

J. Law. Med. Ethics

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This article argues that state laws banning abortions for disability violate reproductive justice for parents with disabilities. These bans deprive people with disabilities of choices that may be important to their possibilities of becoming parents, including possibilities for abortion of pregnancies that have become risky to continue. Far from protecting disability civil rights, these state law bans restrict the abilities of people with disabilities to choose to have children and to parent.

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Challenges for the Pro-Life Movement in a Post-Roe Era

Kaveny

2023

J. Law. Med. Ethics

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“…6 Further, such "prophetic indictment"-the "jeremiad"-is an important part of American moral discourse." 7 This is an illuminating observation because it captures the moral power and sense of urgency at work when someone denounces bigotry-or criticizes othes for failing to do so. Kaveny also points out that prophetic indictment-in the biblical tradition-not only castigates people for their sins but also calls "for repentance and reform."…”

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“…Kaveny also points out that prophetic indictment-in the biblical tradition-not only castigates people for their sins but also calls "for repentance and reform." 8 In Who's the Bigot?, I higlight language from civil rights-era sermons in which religious leaders both condemed racial prejudice as unscriptural and sinful and also spoke of the need to rouse the conscience of, and redeem the segregator, rescue them from the "poisonous fangs" of "racial customs and traditions that have grown up out of the hotbed of ignorance and prejudice" (92). 9 As Kaveny observes, however, when faced with a prophetic indictment, the more typical response is to "indignantly deny the charge, often reversing it," rather than to "humbly admit guilt, repent, and promise to reform."…”

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“…I am grateful that the contributors to this symposium believe that Who's the Bigot? sheds some light on the rhetoric-and the problem-of bigotry and what I called "puzzles about bigotry" (6)(7)(8)(9)(10)(11)(12)(13)(14). It is an honor that Henry L. Chambers, Jr. writes that "[a]nyone who cares about discrimination would prot from reading this book," 1 and that Kyle Velte comments that "McClain's book is essential reading for LGBT rights advocates" and that I present a "compelling picture of a through-line of the rhetoric of bigotry from the 1950s to the present day."…”

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BIGOTRY, PROPHECY, RELIGION, AND THE RACE ANALOGY IN MARRIAGE AND CIVIL RIGHTS BATTLES: RESPONDING TO COMMENTARIES ONWHO'S THE BIGOT?- Who's the Bigot? Learning from Conflicts over Marriage and Civil Rights Law. By Linda C. McClain. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020. Pp. 304. $39.95 (cloth); $26.99 (digital). ISBN: 9780190877200.

McClain¹

2021

J. law relig.

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“…When adapted into constitutional democracy in modern times, the Jeremiad proved to shape "a discourse that is at once thoroughly religious and thoroughly political." 20 Martin Luther King Jr.'s Jeremiad compared normative (deliberative) change to an accelerated (prophetic) change when he compared the false hopes implicit in the industrial revolution to genuine prophecy. "The scientist became a substitute for the prophet," whereas an actual, radical change propelled by prophetic politics had engendered real change: "As on the world scale, so in our nation, the wind of change began to blow."…”

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Introduction

Lebovic¹,

Weidner

2020

Political Theology

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Prophetic politics" is the proclamation of a radical change expressed in religious language at a time of deep existential and political crisis. The term brings together two distinct fields: The first is the prophetic, a medium in all religions, usually represented by an individual who is said to be the mouthpiece of the divine. Whether pagan or monotheistic, male or female, ancient or modern, the prophet is always the teacher and the critic, instructing and scolding, never afraid to express his or her opinion, even when it puts her life at risk. The second field is that of politics. Based on the idea of the polis and the politea, it has stood, since Thomas Hobbes, for the relationship between the people and the sovereign within the body politic. Held together by unifying obligatory relationship, politics overcome the primal state of fear and war of "all against all" in "the state of nature." This special issue concludes a series of workshops funded by the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft). The three workshops, which took place in Berlin and New York from 2018 to 2019, gathered an international group of researchers interested in the intersection of history, religious studies, and literature and straddling the three traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. The group focused on clear states of crisis in history and in politics: the biblical clashes between prophets, kings, and people, Medieval confrontations between the prophetic and the legal traditions, and modern confrontations between the prophetic tradition and the rise of authoritarian secularist regimes, which can be seen as forerunners of more contemporary clashes between political systems and reformatory prophetic rhetoric. Such rhetoric is clearly evident in the twentieth century, for example in Weimar Germany, the American Civil Rights movement, and in the recent confrontation between democracy and its rivals. A sober estimate of the field cannot be achieved by engaging only with biblical, Jewish, Christian and Muslim prophets, nor by limiting their political and public contexts. Rather, our claim in this issue is that prophetic politics serves as a better trope to examine the complexity of the historical, political, and rhetorical circumstances within the field recognized as political theology. The emphasis of prophetic politics on counter-institutional rhetoric and sentiment lets a new form of theorization to emerge. As contributors to this issue demonstrate, prophetic politics means speaking truth to power. It does so by drawing legitimacy from a higher principle of powerbe it truth or divine authority. In times of crisis, prophets are the ones who dare to call attention to societal ills and to declare a new path, as radical as it may be. Even in its outmoded form, prophetic politics has not lost its revolutionary potential: from Jeremiah's symbolic breaking of the vesselsthat is, the breaking of the alliance between God and the peopleto Muhammad's open critique of the elites in Mecca, from the prophetic tone adopted by

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