John Coffey

Exodus and Liberation

Deliverance Politics from John Calvin to Martin Luther King Jr.

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Produktbeschreibung

Tracing a series of political crises in Anglo-American history from the sixteenth-century Reformation to the Civil Rights Movement, Coffey excavates the history of deliverance politics testifying to the powerful political appeal of the Exodus, the Jubilee and the biblical language of liberty.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780199334223
• ISBN-10: 0199334226
• Artikelnr.: 39145008

Autorenporträt

John Coffey is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Leicester

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Introduction: "Biblical Traditions that Call for Liberation"
* Part I: Reformations, Revolutions, and Political Slavery
* 1. "The Only Parallel": The Puritan Revolution as England's Exodus
* 2. "God's Favourite People": The Revolutions of 1688 and 1776
* Part II: Abolitionists, African Americans, and Racial Slavery
* 3. "Pretended Votaries of Freedom": The Rise of Protestant
Antislavery to 1807
* 4. "Yours for the Jubilee": The Abolitionists' Scriptural
Imagination, 1808-1865
* 5. "When Israel was in Egyptland": Black Exodus Politics, 1808-1865
* Part III: Exodus after Slavery
* 6. "I Have Seen the Promised Land": The Persistence of Deliverance
Politics, 1865-2008
* Conclusion: Sacred Texts, Godly Readers, and Historical Change
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index