When Time Shall Be No More: Prophecy Belief in Modern American Culture
(Cambridge, MA,
), pp.
–
.
. For a narrative account of this event see Stephen B. Oates,
Let the Trumpet Sound: A
Life of Martin Luther King, Jr.
(New York,
), pp.
–
. The speech is recorded on video
in the documentary
King: Montgomery to Memphis
(Pyramid Films,
).
. Brown’s contributions to his own sanctification are documented in the materials reprinted
in Richard Warch and Jonathan F. Fanton (eds),
John Brown
(Englewood Cliffs, NJ,
). For
contemporaneous accounts that co-operated with Brown’s own work to validate his prophetic
stature, see, among many others, James Redpath’s bestseller
The Private Life of Capt. John
Brown
(Boston, MA,
) and Henry David Thoreau’s
‘A Plea for Captain John Brown’.
. This case is brilliantly argued in Richard Lischer,
The Preacher King: Martin Luther
King, Jr. and the Word that Moved America
(New York,
). On the composition of ‘The
Battle Hymn’ see Florence Howe Hall,
The Story of the Battle Hymn of the Republic
(New York,
).
. See Claude Andrew Clegg, III,
An Original Man: The Life and Times of Elijah Muhammad
(New York,
), p.
.
. The Millerite phenomenon is considered from many angles in Ronald L. Numbers and
Jonathan M. Butler (eds),
The Disappointed: Millerism and Millenarianism in the Nineteenth
Century
(Knoxville, TN,
). On Ellen White see Numbers,
Prophetess of Health: Ellen G.
White and the Origins of Seventh-Day Adventist Health Reform
rev. edn (Knoxville, TN,
).
The complex cultural origins of Sojourner Truth’s prophetic career are documented in Nell
Irvin Painter,
Sojourner Truth: A Life, a Symbol
(New York,
).
. The phrase comes from the vivid account of early Shakerism by the bitter former
convert Valentine Rathbun,
An Account of the Matter, Form, and Manner of a New and Strange
Religion
… (Providence, RI,
), p.
. The best modern study of the Shakers is Stephen J.
Stein,
The Shaker Experience in America: A History of the United Society of Believers
(New
Haven, CT,
).
. See James Mooney, ‘The Ghost Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of
’,
Notes to Chapters 10 and 11
383
Fourteenth Annual
Report of the Bureau of Ethnology
(Washington, DC,
). An abridged
version of this study was issued by the University of Chicago Press in
. The quotation
comes from the so-called ‘messiah letter’, the written form in which Wovoka’s vision was
carried to distant tribes. Cited in ibid., p.
.
.
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