Empire of Sacrifice : the Religious Origins of American Violence.

It is widely recognized that American culture is both exceptionally religious and exceptionally violent. Americans participate in religious communities in high numbers, yet American citizens also own guns at rates far beyond those of citizens in other industrialized nations. Since9/11, United States...

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Main Author: Pahl, Jon, 1958- (Author)
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Language:English
Published: New York : NYU Press, 2010.
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505 0 |a List of Tables and Figures; Preface and Acknowledgments; Introduction: Blessed Brutalities; 1 Rethinking Violence and Religion in America; Rethinking "Violence"; Rethinking "Religion"; Rethinking "Religious Violence" in America; 2 Sacrificing Youth: From Reefer Madness to Hostel; Spectacles of Sacrifice in the Cinema of Adolescence; A Theater of Terror, or Innocent Martyrs to the "Beast in the Boudoir"; Beyond Hollywood's Happy Endings; 3 Sacrificing Race: "The Slaveholding Religion" from Jarena Lee to Spike Lee; From Christian Ambivalence to a Total System of Bodily Discipline. 
505 8 |a "A Severe Cross": Frederick Douglass and a "Religion of Slaveholding"From Jarena Lee to Spike Lee: The (Re)Birth of a Nation?; 4 Sacrificing Gender: From "Republican Mothers" to Defense of Marriage Acts; Asa's Tale: Patriarchy Lost; Abigail's Tale: Providential Power; The Hidden Hand in Handmaids' Tales; 5 Sacrificing Humans: An Empire of Sacrifice from Mary Dyer to Dead Man Walking; Sacrifice and Empire Building from the Aztecs to Puritan Boston via John Bunyan; Mimesis in Massachusetts, 1656-1657; Ecstatic Asceticism: The Domination of Discourse and Rhetorical Inversion, 1658-1661. 
505 8 |a Sacrificial Rites and an Imagined Community, 1660-1776Dead Man Walking and an American Empire of Sacrifice; Epilogue: Innocent Domination in the "Global War on Terror"; Notes; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; About the Author. 
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