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There is a balm in Gilead
the cultural roots of Martin Luther King, Jr
By Baldwin, Lewis V.
- ISBN
- 978-0-80062-457-6
- Publisher
- Minneapolis : Fortress Press, c1991.
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Library Journal
Reviewed on February 1, 1991
Lewis (religion, Vanderbilt Univ.) has written a competent, if uncritical and derivative study of the origins of King's philosophy and civil rights activism. He focuses on three major influences: sense of place (the South), idea of community, and Christian optimism. To Lewis, King was far more deeply affected by the Southern black church than by any higher theological studies in...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
