America, Amerikkka : elect nation and imperial violence / Rosemary Radford Ruether.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ruether, Rosemary Radford.

Series:

Religion and violence.

Religion and violence

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Manifest Destiny.

Imperialism--History.

Imperialism.

Political messianism--United States--History.

Political messianism.

Religion and politics--United States--History.

Religion and politics.

National characteristics, American.

Racism--Political aspects--United States--History.

Racism.

Protest movements--United States--History.

Protest movements.

United States--Foreign relations.

United States.

United States--Territorial expansion.

United States--Politics and government.

United States--Race relations--Political aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London ; Oakville, CT : Equinox, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

America, Amerikkka traces the historical and ideological patterns of the U.S. 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. This view of unique election has been coupled racial exclusivism privileging and marginalizing non-whites as citizens of the nation. In the 18th and 19th centuries a doctrine of the ""rights of man"" excluded the two primary non-white groups present in the territory, Native Americans and Africans. Manifest Destiny

Contents:

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 era, 1945-89

6. American empire and its denouement: 1990-2007

7. Alternative visions of America: the protest tradition

8. Toward a U. S. theology of liberation and letting go.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [276]-282) and indexes.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-315-71120-6

1-317-49124-6

9781315711201

OCLC:

647929491