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200 10$aAmerica, Amerikkka $eelect nation and imperial violence /$fRosemary Radford Ruether
205   $a1st ed.
210   $aLondon ;$aOakville, CT $cEquinox$d2007
210  1$aLondon ;$aOakville, CT :$cEquinox,$d2007.
215   $a1 online resource (300 p.)
225 1 $aReligion and violence
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311 08$a1-322-45655-0 
311 08$a1-84553-157-4 
320   $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [276]-282) and indexes.
327   $aIntroduction: 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.
330   $aAmerica, 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 Destiny
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606   $aImperialism$xHistory
606   $aPolitical messianism$zUnited States$xHistory
606   $aReligion and politics$zUnited States$xHistory
606   $aNational characteristics, American
606   $aRacism$xPolitical aspects$zUnited States$xHistory
606   $aProtest movements$zUnited States$xHistory
607   $aUnited States$xForeign relations
607   $aUnited States$xTerritorial expansion
607   $aUnited States$xPolitics and government
607   $aUnited States$xRace relations$xPolitical aspects
615  0$aManifest Destiny.
615  0$aImperialism$xHistory.
615  0$aPolitical messianism$xHistory.
615  0$aReligion and politics$xHistory.
615  0$aNational characteristics, American.
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