An Anti-Political Revolution: Reading the Azusa Street Revival and Civil Rights Movement within the Black Radical Tradition
It is necessary to draw from and push forward the Black radical tradition to realize a world free from racial capitalism. Drawing on the work of Keri Day, I argue that the Azusa Street Revival represents a stream of the Black radical tradition. Further, I contend that the civil rights movement assoc...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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| In: |
Black theology
Year: 2025, Volume: 23, Issue: 3, Pages: 214-233 |
| Further subjects: | B
racial capitalism
B Black radical tradition B Beloved Community B anti-political B Azusa street revival B Martin Luther King Jr |
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| Summary: | It is necessary to draw from and push forward the Black radical tradition to realize a world free from racial capitalism. Drawing on the work of Keri Day, I argue that the Azusa Street Revival represents a stream of the Black radical tradition. Further, I contend that the civil rights movement associated with Martin Luther King Jr. represented a continuation of this stream. Specifically, I argue that the Azusa Street Revival and the Beloved Community as envisioned and built by King formed what I call anti-political communities. I refer to these communities as anti-political because they reject the politics of racial capitalism and begin the work of building outside its domain via the Black radical tradition. These anti-political communities tore down racial capitalism through the new kind of community they built, and they have lessons for how we can do so in the present. |
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| ISSN: | 1743-1670 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Black theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/14769948.2025.2564532 |
