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.
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.
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
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
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