TY - BOOK AU - McKanan,Dan TI - Identifying the Image of God: Radical Christians and Nonviolent Power in the Antebellum United States T2 - Religion in America Series SN - 9780198033226 AV - BR517.M385 2002 U1 - 261.8/0973/09034 PY - 2002/// CY - Cary PB - Oxford University Press, Incorporated KW - Christian sociology -- United States -- History -- 19th century KW - Liberalism (Religion) -- United States -- History -- 19th century KW - Image of God -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 19th century KW - Electronic books N1 - Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: The Power of Identification -- 1. Wheat and Tares: The Liberal Encounter with Puritan Violence -- 2. From Sentimentality to Social Reform: The Emergence of Radical Christian Liberalism -- 3. The Gospel, the Declaration, and the Divine Child: Theology and Literature of Ultra Reform -- 4. Looking for Victims: Violence and Theology in Temperance Narratives -- 5. Through the Blood-Stained Gate: Violence, Birth, and the Imago Dei in Fugitive Slave Narratives -- 6. Epics of Ambivalence: Nonviolent Power in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Antislavery Novels -- 7. Violent Messiahs: Radical Christian Liberals and the Civil War -- Conclusion: Liberal Irony -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z N2 - Between 1820 and 1860, American social reformers invited all people to identify God's image in the victims of war, slavery, and addiction. Identifying the Image of God traces the theme of identification--and its liberal Christian roots--through the literature of social reform, focusing onsentimental novels, temperance tales, and slave narratives, and invites contemporary activists to revive the politics of identification UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/orpp/detail.action?docID=3051845 ER -