Redemptive Dreams: Engaging Kevin Starr's California [Hardcover]

TABLE OF CONTENTSIntroductionAnthea M. Hartig, The Smithsonian Museum of American History1. Interpreting California: An Ever-Challenging TaskKevin Starr2. Redeeming the Dream: Revisiting Kevin Starrs California in Theological PerspectiveJason S. Sexton, UCLA3. The Dream Interrupted: Kevin Starr at The San Francisco Examiner, 1976-83Peter Richardson, San Francisco State University4. Race, Spirituality, and the Expansive Pluralism of the California Dream-Turning-to-RealityRobert Chao Romero, UCLA; Russell Jeung, San Francisco State University, #StopAAPIHate; Amos Yong, Fuller Theological Seminary5. Sin, Hope, and Pilgrimage in Kevin Starrs Style of American StudiesRick Kennedy, Point Loma Nazarene University; Peter Choi, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley6. Kevin Starrs California Dream and the Creation, Destruction, and Redemption of California LandscapesMegan Kendrick, Woodbury University7. This Could Be Heaven or This Could Be Hell: Kevin Starrs California, Memory, and the Theological ImaginationCid Gregory Martinez and Thomas Ehrlich Reifer, University of San Diego8. On the Past and Future of Kevin Starrs CaliforniaMike DavisSelect BibliographyGary Kurutz, California State Library Foundation

Redemptive Dreams offers interdisciplinary perspectives that highlight key features inherent to interdisciplinary theological reflection on place, and illuminates these diverse disciplinary discourses as they appear in Starrs articulation of the California Dream.?

An essential piece in California Studies, Redemptive Dreams: Engaging Kevin Starrs California offers the first critical engagement with the vision of Californias most ambitious interpreter. While Starrs multifaceted and polymathic vision of California offered a unique gazesynthesizing central features, big themes, and incredible problems with the propitious golden dreamhis eight-volume California Dream series, along with several other bookl¯