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1 online resource (272 pages) |
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List of Tables and Figures; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction: Blessed Brutalities; 1 Rethinking Violence and Religion in America; Rethinking "Violence"; Rethinking "Religion"; Rethinking "Religious Violence" in America; 2 Sacrificing Youth: From Reefer Madness to Hostel; Spectacles of Sacrifice in the Cinema of Adolescence; A Theater of Terror, or Innocent Martyrs to the "Beast in the Boudoir"; Beyond Hollywood's Happy Endings; 3 Sacrificing Race: "The Slaveholding Religion" from Jarena Lee to Spike Lee; From Christian Ambivalence to a Total System of Bodily Discipline |
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"A Severe Cross": Frederick Douglass and a "Religion of Slaveholding"From Jarena Lee to Spike Lee: The (Re)Birth of a Nation?; 4 Sacrificing Gender: From "Republican Mothers" to Defense of Marriage Acts; Asa's Tale: Patriarchy Lost; Abigail's Tale: Providential Power; The Hidden Hand in Handmaids' Tales; 5 Sacrificing Humans: An Empire of Sacrifice from Mary Dyer to Dead Man Walking; Sacrifice and Empire Building from the Aztecs to Puritan Boston via John Bunyan; Mimesis in Massachusetts, 1656-1657; Ecstatic Asceticism: The Domination of Discourse and Rhetorical Inversion, 1658-1661 |
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Sacrificial Rites and an Imagined Community, 1660-1776Dead Man Walking and an American Empire of Sacrifice; Epilogue: Innocent Domination in the "Global War on Terror"; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; About the Author |
| Summary |
It is widely recognized that American culture is both exceptionally religious and exceptionally violent. Americans participate in religious communities in high numbers, yet American citizens also own guns at rates far beyond those of citizens in other industrialized nations. Since9/11, United States scholars have understandably discussed religious violence in terms of terrorist acts, a focus that follows United States policy. Yet, according to Jon Pahl, to identify religious violence only with terrorism fails to address the long history of American violence rooted in religion throughout the co |
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Print version record |
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Christianity and culture -- United States
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Violence -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
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Sacrifice -- Social aspects -- United States
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- International Relations -- General.
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Christianity and culture
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Violence -- Religious aspects -- Christianity
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United States -- Church history.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139926
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United States
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| Genre/Form |
Church history
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780814768440 |
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081476844X |
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