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Revolution of Conscience: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Philosophy of Nonviolence.

Publisher African American Review
Publication African American Review
Subject Ethnic, cultural, racial issues/studies
Format Magazine/Journal
ISSN 1062-4783
Issues per Year 4
Volume 32
Issue n2
Published 1998-06-22

Role Type Name
Author n/a Hans A. Baer
Reviewee n/a Moses Greg
Reviewee n/a Greg Moses

Moses Greg. New York: Guilford P, 1997. 256 pp. $23.95

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Hans A. Baer University of Arkansas at Little Rock

Mr. Martin Luther King, Jr., is widely regarded to have been prominent as a minister, orator, and Civil Rights activist - the latest addition to what Robert Bellah has termed "American civil religion." Greg Moses argues that King also was a significant philosopher who has all too often been ignored by Eurocentric philosophers. Although it is often asserted that King derived his concept of nonviolence from Mahandas Gandhi, Moses convincingly...

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