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Showing 1 to 20 of 199 for “"Luther"”.
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Ministers and martyrs : Malcolm X and Martin Luther King
… despised, black ministers Malcolm X and Martin Luther King made their ways from birth in Baptist parsonages separated by half a continent to significant positions in mid-twentieth century America. Both men were painfully dramatizing black problems and poignantly articulating black-white tensions …
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I Never Saw the Llightning, Martin Luther! A Compositional Model
… model. <em>l Never Saw the Lightning, Martin Luther!</em> discusses the problems associated with prewriting structure, point of view, and thematic considerations-as well as techniques of editing and unifying the continuity of a manuscript. These techniques are written as a preface, a "process …
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A Strange Distinction: Religion and Civic Life since Martin Luther King Jr.
Martin Luther King Jr. is an American civil saint whose life and work blended religion into his civic engagement. Yet prominent political theorists and religious ethicists writing since the Civil Rights Movement fail to make a place for King's type of activism. Drawing heavily upon King's "Letter …
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Freedom in the thought and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
… of this dissertation is to discover Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s interpretation of freedom. King's life was dedicated to a pursuit of freedom for African Americans, the poor, and unfree people around the world. This dissertation takes a comprehensive approach to answering the question: What did …
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What's Missing: Dichotomization and Misconceptions of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X
Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X are two of the most famous African-American activists in American history. The purpose of this study is to analyze the similarities and differences between how King and X approached and conceptualized questions of violence, politics, and religion, while …
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Sonic landscapes: The environmental choral music of R. Murray Schafer and John Luther Adams
… to this genre as have R. Murray Schafer and John Luther Adams, both of whom have found inspiration as composers through their work as environmental activists. Schafer’s Landscapes and Soundscapes (2010) and Adams’s Canticles of the Holy Wind (2017) are two prominent examples from this repertoire, …
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Luther and the Deadly Be's: His Christ-Centered Preaching in Contrast to Redemptive-Historical Exclusivism
… church history. Even a preacher like Martin Luther, with a near-universal reputation for Christ-centeredness, is unable to survive this redemptive-historical gauntlet unscathed. This dissertation contends that Martin Luther’s preaching fails to satisfy redemptive-historical standards for …
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Black, Brown, and Poor: Martin Luther King Jr., the Poor People's Campaign, and Its Legacies
Envisioned by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1967, the Poor People's Campaign (PPC) represented a bold attempt to revitalize the black freedom struggle as a movement explicitly based on class, not race. Incorporating African Americans, ethnic Mexicans, Puerto Ricans, American Indians, and poor …
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A Discourse Analysis of the Centered and Critical Scholar-Activism of Martin Luther King Jr.
… research concerning the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and his scholar-activism. This project is intended to look for evidence of intellectual leadership within King's writings in an effort to classify King within the Scholar-Activist paradigm in Africana Studies. Further, the aim is to …
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Good citizens: how student council impacts socialization norms at Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. School Complex
… student council. The setting was the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. School Complex in Atlantic City, New Jersey. The school had undergone several reconfigurations to the student body in prior years. Since then it has been difficult to maintain a student body culture that was both stable and suitable …
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The Construction of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X in Composition Textbooks: Rereading Readers
… This study examines the portrayal of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., and Malcolm X in composition textbook anthologies known as Readers, and sheds light on the ways Readers incorporate writers from African-American backgrounds. Through qualitative methods, I analyze how King and Malcolm X are …
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A Sociolinguistic Profile of the Pupils in the Bilingual Program at Martin Luther King, Jr. School #9
… the bilingual program, grades 4 - 6, at Martin Luther King, Jr. School #9 in Rochester, New York. The survey will be the result of the pupils' assessment of their language situation. In addition to the descriptive profile of language use, an analysis of relationships that exist between the types …
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Funk My Soul: The Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. And the Birth of Funk Culture
<p>Few can deny that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s untimely death had a profound impact on American life. In this dissertation, I argue that the assassination inspired musicians, producers, artists, and consumers across the nation to reconstruct soul music and, in its place, construct the cultural …
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Salvation and the Will: Human and Divine Cooperation in the Theologies of Martin Luther and Maximus the Confessor
The Lutheran tradition is arguably defined by the doctrine of justification by grace through faith, a view of salvation understood primarily—though not exclusively— as extrinsic and forensic in character. In contrast, the Eastern Orthodox tradition has been often characterized by the doctrine of …
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Hidden Black and Brown Bridges: The Mutual Influences of Dr. Martin Luther King and Hispanic Theologian Dr. Justo González
… the understudied relationship between Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Latino theologian Justo González. Dr. González was the translator for King during his visit to Puerto Rico in 1965 with FOR (Fellowship of Reconciliation). González is a Cuban American Methodist who has written more than 50 …
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