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America, Amerikkka : Elect Nation and Imperial Violence.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Religion and Violence SeriesPublisher: Oxford : Taylor & Francis Group, 2014Copyright date: ©2007Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (300 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781317491248
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: America, AmerikkkaDDC classification:
  • 973
LOC classification:
  • E183.7 .R895 2014
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction THE TWO FACES OF AMERICA: THE IDEAL AMERICA AS DECEPTION AND AS PROTEST -- Chapter One ELECT NATIONS OF EUROPE AND THE MAKING OF THE AMERICAN MYTH OF CHOSENNESS -- Chapter Two THE RIGHTS OF MAN AND THE EXCLUDED OTHERS - THE REVOLUTIONARY ERA AND BEYOND -- Chapter Three MANIFEST DESTINY AND ANGLO-SAXON RACISM - 1815-1875 -- Chapter Four MANIFEST DESTINY AND AMERICAN EMPIRE: 1890-1934 -- Chapter Five AMERICA'S GLOBAL MISSION: THE COLD WAR ERA, 1945-89 -- Chapter Six AMERICAN EMPIRE AND ITS DENOUEMENT: 1990-2007 -- Chapter Seven ALTERNATIVE VISIONS OF AMERICA: THE PROTEST TRADITION -- Chapter Eight TOWARD A U.S. THEOLOGY OF LIBERATION AND LETTING GO -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX OF BIBLICAL REFERENCES -- GENERAL INDEX.
Summary: Traces the historical and ideological patterns of the US 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.
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction THE TWO FACES OF AMERICA: THE IDEAL AMERICA AS DECEPTION AND AS PROTEST -- Chapter One ELECT NATIONS OF EUROPE AND THE MAKING OF THE AMERICAN MYTH OF CHOSENNESS -- Chapter Two THE RIGHTS OF MAN AND THE EXCLUDED OTHERS - THE REVOLUTIONARY ERA AND BEYOND -- Chapter Three MANIFEST DESTINY AND ANGLO-SAXON RACISM - 1815-1875 -- Chapter Four MANIFEST DESTINY AND AMERICAN EMPIRE: 1890-1934 -- Chapter Five AMERICA'S GLOBAL MISSION: THE COLD WAR ERA, 1945-89 -- Chapter Six AMERICAN EMPIRE AND ITS DENOUEMENT: 1990-2007 -- Chapter Seven ALTERNATIVE VISIONS OF AMERICA: THE PROTEST TRADITION -- Chapter Eight TOWARD A U.S. THEOLOGY OF LIBERATION AND LETTING GO -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX OF BIBLICAL REFERENCES -- GENERAL INDEX.

Traces the historical and ideological patterns of the US 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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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