Prophetic Fragments

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Mich., 1988 - 294 pages

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Prophetic Christian as Organic
3
Religion and the Left
13
Religion Politics Language
22
Copyright

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About the author (1988)

Professor, writer, and civil rights activist Cornel West was born on June 2, 1953 in Tulsa, Oklahoma and raised in Sacramento. He graduated from Harvard University in 1973 with an M.A. and later taught African-American studies there. He has also taught at Union Theological Seminary, Haverford College, and Princeton University, the latter as professor of religion and director of African-American studies. West earned his Ph.D. from Princeton in 1980. He has written more than twenty books, including Race Matters and Restoring Hope: Conversations on the Future of Black America.

Bibliographic information

TitleProphetic Fragments
AuthorCornel West
PublisherMich., 1988
Original fromthe University of Michigan
Digitized23 Jun 2009
ISBN0865430853, 9780865430853
Length294 pages
  
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