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Empire of sacrifice [[electronic resource] ] : the religious origins of American violence / / Jon Pahl



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Autore: Pahl Jon <1958-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Empire of sacrifice [[electronic resource] ] : the religious origins of American violence / / Jon Pahl Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : New York University Press, 2010
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (272 p.)
Disciplina: 261.8
Soggetto topico: Christianity and culture - United States
Violence - Religious aspects - Christianity
Violence - United States
Sacrifice - Social aspects - United States
Soggetto geografico: United States Church history
Soggetto non controllato: American
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Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Rethinking Violence and Religion in America -- 2 Sacrificing Youth -- 3 Sacrificing Race -- 4 Sacrificing Gender -- 5 Sacrificing Humans -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author
Sommario/riassunto: 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 country’s history. In essence, Americans have found ways to consider blessed some very brutal attitudes and behaviors both domestically and globally.In Empire of Sacrifice, Pahl explains how both of these distinctive features of American culture work together by exploring how constructions along the lines of age, race, and gender have operated to centralize cultural power across American civil or cultural religions in ways that don’t always appear to be "religious" at all. Pahl traces the development of these forms of systemic violence throughout American history, using evidence from popular culture, including movies such as Rebel without a Cause and Reefer Madness and works of literature such as The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and The Handmaid's Tale, to illuminate historical events. Throughout, Pahl focuses an intense light on the complex and durable interactions between religion and violence in American history, from Puritan Boston to George W. Bush’s Baghdad.
Titolo autorizzato: Empire of sacrifice  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8147-6844-X
1-4416-3664-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910780976103321
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