Identifying the image of God : radical Christians and nonviolent power in the antebellum United States / Dan McKanan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McKanan, Dan, 1967-

Series:

Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)

Religion in America series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian sociology--United States--History--19th century.

Christian sociology.

Liberalism (Religion)--United States--History--19th century.

Liberalism (Religion).

Image of God--Social aspects--United States--History--19th century.

Image of God.

Physical Description:

viii, 294 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

Summary:

Between 1820 and 1860, American social reformers invited all people to identify God's image in the victims of war, slavery, and addiction. Identifying the Image of God traces the theme of identification--and its liberal Christian roots--through the literature of social reform, focusing onsentimental novels, temperance tales, and slave narratives, and invites contemporary activists to revive the politics of identification.

Contents:

Intro

Contents

Introduction: The Power of Identification

1. Wheat and Tares: The Liberal Encounter with Puritan Violence

2. From Sentimentality to Social Reform: The Emergence of Radical Christian Liberalism

3. The Gospel, the Declaration, and the Divine Child: Theology and Literature of Ultra Reform

4. Looking for Victims: Violence and Theology in Temperance Narratives

5. Through the Blood-Stained Gate: Violence, Birth, and the Imago Dei in Fugitive Slave Narratives

6. Epics of Ambivalence: Nonviolent Power in Harriet Beecher Stowe's Antislavery Novels

7. Violent Messiahs: Radical Christian Liberals and the Civil War

Conclusion: Liberal Irony

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-279) and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780198033226

0198033222

OCLC:

57365295