America, Amerikkka : elect nation and imperial violence / / Rosemary Radford Ruether
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| Autore: |
Ruether Rosemary Radford
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| Titolo: |
America, Amerikkka : elect nation and imperial violence / / Rosemary Radford Ruether
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| Pubblicazione: | London ; ; Oakville, CT, : Equinox, 2007 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (300 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Manifest Destiny |
| Imperialism - History | |
| Political messianism - United States - History | |
| Religion and politics - United States - History | |
| National characteristics, American | |
| Racism - Political aspects - United States - History | |
| Protest movements - United States - History | |
| Soggetto geografico: | United States Foreign relations |
| United States Territorial expansion | |
| United States Politics and government | |
| United States Race relations Political aspects | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [276]-282) and indexes. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 Destiny |
| Titolo autorizzato: | America, Amerikkka |
| ISBN: | 1-315-71120-6 |
| 1-317-49124-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910826731603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Religion and violence.