Empire of Sacrifice : The Religious Origins of American Violence / Jon Pahl.
2010
BR517 .P34 2016
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Title
Empire of Sacrifice : The Religious Origins of American Violence / Jon Pahl.
Author
Pahl, Jon, author.
ISBN
9780814768440
Published
New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2010]
Copyright
©2010
Language
English
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In English.
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10.18574/nyu/9780814767627.001.0001 doi
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BR517 .P34 2016
Dewey Decimal Classification
261.8
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 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.
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Table of Contents
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
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