From jeremiad to jihad : religion, violence, and America / John D. Carlson and Jonathan H. Ebel, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Carlson, John D. (John David)

Ebel, Jonathan H., 1970-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Violence--Religious aspects.

Violence.

Violence--United States.

United States--Religion.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley : University of California Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Violence has been a central feature of America's history, culture, and place in the world. It has taken many forms: from state-sponsored uses of force such as war or law enforcement, to revolution, secession, terrorism and other actions with important political and cultural implications. Religion also holds a crucial place in the American experience of violence, particularly for those who have found order and meaning in their worlds through religious texts, symbols, rituals, and ideas. Yet too often the religious dimensions of violence, especially in the American context, are ignored or overstated-in either case, poorly understood. From Jeremiad to Jihad: Religion, Violence, and America corrects these misunderstandings. Charting and interpreting the tendrils of religion and violence, this book reveals how formative moments of their intersection in American history have influenced the ideas, institutions, and identities associated with the United States. Religion and violence provide crucial yet underutilized lenses for seeing America anew-including its outlook on, and relation to, the world.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Foreword

Preface

Introduction. John Brown, Jeremiad, and Jihad: Reflections on Religion, Violence, and America

1. From King Philip's War to September 11: Religion, Violence, and the American Way

2. A Nation Birthed in Blood: Violent Cosmogonies and American Film

3. From Covenant to Crusade and Back: American Christianity and the Late Great War

4. From Jeremiad to Manifesto: The Rhetorical Evolution of John Foster Dulles's "Massive Retaliation"

5. American Providence, American Violence

6. New Israel, New Amalek: Biblical Exhortations to Religious Violence

7. Religion and Violence in Black and White

8. State Violence and the Un-American West: Mormons, American Indians, and Cults

9. Alma White's Bloodless Warfare: Women and Violence in U.S. Religious History

10. Of Tragedy and Its Aftermath: The Search for Religious Meaning in the Shootings at Virginia Tech

11. A Just or Holy War of Independence? The Revolution's Legacy for Religion, Violence, and American Exceptionalism

12. Why War Is a Moral Necessity for America: Realism, Sacrifice, and the Civil War

13. Contemporary Warfare and American Efforts at Restraint

14. Enemies Near and Far. The United States and Its Muslim Allies in Radical Islamist Discourse

15. Varieties of "Violence": Thinking Ethically about the Use of Force in the War on Terror

Contributors

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 24. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9786613587169

9781280491931

1280491930

9780520951532

0520951530

OCLC:

793511136