03688nam 2200769 a 450 991097070460332120251117082437.01-315-71120-61-317-49124-6(CKB)2550000000017343(EBL)516798(OCoLC)647929491(SSID)ssj0000463177(PQKBManifestationID)12161262(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000463177(PQKBWorkID)10427293(PQKB)10655119(MiAaPQ)EBC1886864(OCoLC)1187184326(FINmELB)ELB136292(EXLCZ)99255000000001734320060612d2007 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrAmerica, Amerikkka elect nation and imperial violence /Rosemary Radford Ruether1st ed.London ;Oakville, CT Equinox2007London ;Oakville, CT :Equinox,2007.1 online resource (300 p.)Religion and violenceDescription based upon print version of record.1-322-45655-0 1-84553-157-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. [276]-282) and indexes.Introduction: the two faces of America: the ideal America as deception and as protest -- 1. Elect nations of Europe and the making of the American myth of chosenness -- 2. The rights of man and the excluded others: the revolutionary era and beyond -- 3. Manifest destiny and Anglo-Saxon racism: 1815-1875 -- 4. Manifest destiny and American empire: 1890-1934 -- 5. America's global mission: the Cold War era, 1945-89 -- 6. American empire and its denouement: 1990-2007 -- 7. Alternative visions of America: the protest tradition -- 8. Toward a U. S. theology of liberation and letting go.America, Amerikkka traces the historical and ideological patterns of the U.S. American view of themselves as an elect nation inhabiting a ""promised land"" and enjoying a uniquely favored relation with God and a mission to spread ""redemption"" qua ""democracy"" throughout the world. This view of unique election has been coupled racial exclusivism privileging and marginalizing non-whites as citizens of the nation. In the 18th and 19th centuries a doctrine of the ""rights of man"" excluded the two primary non-white groups present in the territory, Native Americans and Africans. Manifest DestinyReligion and violence.Manifest DestinyImperialismHistoryPolitical messianismUnited StatesHistoryReligion and politicsUnited StatesHistoryNational characteristics, AmericanRacismPolitical aspectsUnited StatesHistoryProtest movementsUnited StatesHistoryUnited StatesForeign relationsUnited StatesTerritorial expansionUnited StatesPolitics and governmentUnited StatesRace relationsPolitical aspectsManifest Destiny.ImperialismHistory.Political messianismHistory.Religion and politicsHistory.National characteristics, American.RacismPolitical aspectsHistory.Protest movementsHistory.973Ruether Rosemary Radford185956MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910970704603321America, Amerikkka4498166UNINA