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Plowshares : protest, performance, and religious identity in the nuclear age / Kristen Tobey.
LIBRA BR115.A85 T63 2016
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tobey, Kristen, 1978- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Plowshares Eight (Group).
- Catholic Church.
- Antinuclear movement--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
- Antinuclear movement.
- Antinuclear movement--United States.
- Nuclear disarmament--Religious aspects.
- Nuclear disarmament.
- United States.
- Nuclear disarmament--Religious aspects--Catholic Church.
- Nuclear disarmament--United States.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 174 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2016]
- Summary:
- "Explores the actions of the radical Roman Catholic antinuclear activist group Plowshares. Focuses on the closely interwoven religious and social significance of the group's actions and subsequent legal trials, which rely on performances of moral distinction to achieve the activists' aims"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- "We in the underground are trying to do something else" : the Plowshares' history and development
- "Something deeper than reason" : the logic and tactics of symbolic disarmament
- "Our only real credential" : the rhetorical performance of symbolic boundaries
- "Just to speak the truth" : the Plowshares' theory of the case
- "Your honor, I object.... she is talking about God" : boundary negotiations in the courtroom.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 158-165) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780271076720
- 0271076720
- OCLC:
- 948360618
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