America, Amerikkka [electronic resource] : elect nation and imperial violence / Rosemary Radford Ruether.
2007
E183.7 .R895 2007eb
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Title
America, Amerikkka [electronic resource] : elect nation and imperial violence / Rosemary Radford Ruether.
Author
Ruether, Rosemary Radford.
ISBN
1845531574 (hbk.)
9781845531577 (hbk.)
1845531582 (pbk.)
9781845531584 (pbk.)
9781845531577 (hbk.)
1845531582 (pbk.)
9781845531584 (pbk.)
Imprint
London ; Oakville, CT : Equinox, 2007.
Language
English
Description
viii, 291 p. ; 24 cm.
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E183.7 .R895 2007eb
Dewey Decimal Classification
973
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [276]-282) and indexes.
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Access limited to authorized users.
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Religion and violence.
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Table of Contents
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.
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.