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Author Matthes, Melissa M., 1964- author.

Title When sorrow comes : the power of sermons from Pearl Harbor to Black Lives Matter / Melissa M. Matthes
Published Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (428 pages)
Contents Introduction: The power of the pulpit -- Necessary injustice: Pearl Harbor and the internment of Japanese Americans -- We all killed Kennedy: the assassination of President John F. Kennedy -- Existential despair: the assassination of Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. -- The Church of the National Tragedy: The Los Angeles uprisings and the Oklahoma City bombing -- God's Celestial Army: September 11, 2001 -- The enduring American crisis: from the Newtown shooting to Black Lives Matter
Summary "When Sorrow Comes explores the sermons that American clergy, primarily Protestant ministers, gave in the first weeks after national crises, beginning with Pearl Harbor. Additional chapters include the sermons given after the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.; those given after the Oklahoma City bombing and the LA "Race Riots"; a chapter on the sermons given in the immediate aftermath of September 11, 2001; and a final chapter on the killing of Trayvon Martin and the Newtown School Shooting. The book focuses on three broad analytic questions: How do the sermons understand the tragedy and recommend that listeners process their grief? What assumptions inform the clergy's narratives of the relation between church and state during the crisis? What are the meanings ascribed to being both a Christian and a citizen during each emergency?"-- Provided by publisher
Subject Topical preaching -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Topical preaching -- United States -- History -- 21st century
Crisis management -- United States -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Religion and civil society -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Religion and civil society -- United States -- History -- 21st century
Church and state -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Church and state -- United States -- History -- 21st century
RELIGION / Religion, Politics & State
Church and state
Crisis management -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
Religion and civil society
Topical preaching
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780674259973
0674259971