Religious Intolerance, America, and the World : A History of Forgetting and Remembering / John Corrigan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Corrigan, John, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Toleration--United States--Religious aspects--History.

Toleration.

Toleration--United States--History.

Persecution--Public opinion.

Persecution.

Religion and international relations--United States--Public opinion.

Religion and international relations.

Protestants--United States--Attitudes.

Protestants.

Christians--United States--Attitudes.

Christians.

United States--Religion.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (299 pages)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

As the news shows us every day, contemporary American culture and politics are rife with people who demonize their enemies by projecting their own failings and flaws onto them. But this is no recent development. Rather, as John Corrigan argues here, it’s an expression of a trauma endemic to America’s history, particularly involving our long domestic record of religious conflict and violence. Religious Intolerance, America, and the World spans from Christian colonists’ intolerance of Native Americans and the role of religion in the new republic’s foreign-policy crises to Cold War witch hunts and the persecution complexes that entangle Christians and Muslims today. Corrigan reveals how US churches and institutions have continuously campaigned against intolerance overseas even as they’ve abetted or performed it at home. This selective condemnation of intolerance, he shows, created a legacy of foreign policy interventions promoting religious freedom and human rights that was not reflected within America’s own borders. This timely, captivating book forces America to confront its claims of exceptionalism based on religious liberty—and perhaps begin to break the grotesque cycle of projection and oppression.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction: Religious Intolerance, Trauma, and the International

1. Proscribing Amalekites: Violence, Remembering, and Forgetting in Early America

2. Projections: Antebellum Americans and the Overseas Crisis

3. Protections: The Nineteenth Century Turns— to the South

4. Pursuits: The Cold War and the Hunt for Intolerance

5. Persecutions: The Importation of Intolerance in the Twenty- First Century

Acknowledgments

Notes

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

ISBN:

9780226314099

022631409X

OCLC:

1145579888