Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 223 mm, Gewicht: 439 g
Buch, Englisch, 250 Seiten, Trade Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 223 mm, Gewicht: 439 g
ISBN: 978-0-520-27166-1
Verlag: University of California Press
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Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religiöser Fundamentalismus
- Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft
- Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religion & Politik, Religionsfreiheit
- Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Politik & Religion, Religionsfreiheit
Weitere Infos & Material
Foreword
Martin E. Marty
Preface
Introduction. John Brown, Jeremiad, and Jihad: Reflections on Religion, Violence, and America
John D. Carlson and Jonathan H. Ebel
Part I. Religious Origins and Tropes of American Violence
1. From King Philip's War to September 11: Religion, Violence, and the American Way
Andrew R. Murphy and Elizabeth Hanson
2. A Nation Birthed in Blood: Violent Cosmogonies and American Film
S. Brent Rodriguez-Plate
3. From Covenant to Crusade and Back: American Christianity and the Late Great War
Jonathan H. Ebel
4. From Jeremiad to Manifesto: The Rhetorical Evolution of John Foster Dulles’s “Massive Retaliation”
Ned O’Gorman
5. American Providence, American Violence
Stephen H. Webb
Part II. Religion and America’s “Others”
6. New Israel, New Amalek: Biblical Exhortations to Religious Violence
John Corrigan
7. Religion and Violence in Black and White
Eddie S. Glaude Jr.
8. State Violence and the Un-American West: Mormons, American Indians, and Cults
Todd M. Kerstetter
9. Alma White’s Bloodless Warfare: Women and Violence in U.S. Religious History
Lynn S. Neal
10. Of Tragedy and Its Aftermath: The Search for Religious Meaning in the Shootings at Virginia Tech
Grace Y. Kao
Part III. The Ethics of Violence and War
11. A Just or Holy War of Independence? The Revolution’s Legacy for Religion, Violence, and American Exceptionalism
John D. Carlson
12. Why War Is a Moral Necessity for America: Realism, Sacrifice, and the Civil War
Stanley Hauerwas
13. Contemporary Warfare and American Efforts at Restraint
James Turner Johnson
14. Enemies Near and Far: The United States and Its Muslim Allies in Radical Islamist Discourse
Sohail H. Hashmi
15. Varieties of “Violence”: Thinking Ethically about the Use of Force in the War on Terror
Jean Bethke Elshtain
Contributors
Index