Rosemary Radford Ruether

America, Amerikkka (eBook, ePUB)

Elect Nation and Imperial Violence

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Dezember 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317491231
• Artikelnr.: 42009735

Autorenporträt

Rosemary Radford Ruether is Visting Professor of Religion at Claremont Graduate University, USA

Inhaltsangabe

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 Years, 1945-1989 6. American Empire and its
Denouement, 1990-2006 7. Alternative Visions of America: The Protest
Tradition 8. Toward a US Theology of Liberation/Letting Go