Empire of Sacrifice : : The Religious Origins of American Violence / / Jon Pahl.
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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Pahl, Jon, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Empire of Sacrifice : The Religious Origins of American Violence / Jon Pahl. New York, NY : New York University Press, [2010] ©2010 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Rethinking Violence and Religion in America -- 2 Sacrificing Youth -- 3 Sacrificing Race -- 4 Sacrificing Gender -- 5 Sacrificing Humans -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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 scholars have understandably discussed religious violence in terms of terrorist acts, a focus that follows United States policy. Yet, according to Jon Pahl, to identify religious violence only with terrorism fails to address the long history of American violence rooted in religion throughout the country’s history. In essence, Americans have found ways to consider blessed some very brutal attitudes and behaviors both domestically and globally.In Empire of Sacrifice, Pahl explains how both of these distinctive features of American culture work together by exploring how constructions along the lines of age, race, and gender have operated to centralize cultural power across American civil or cultural religions in ways that don’t always appear to be "religious" at all. Pahl traces the development of these forms of systemic violence throughout American history, using evidence from popular culture, including movies such as Rebel without a Cause and Reefer Madness and works of literature such as The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and The Handmaid's Tale, to illuminate historical events. Throughout, Pahl focuses an intense light on the complex and durable interactions between religion and violence in American history, from Puritan Boston to George W. Bush’s Baghdad. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jun 2022) Christianity and culture United States. Sacrifice Social aspects United States. Violence Religious aspects Christianity. Violence United States. SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion. bisacsh American. Empire. Pahl. Sacrifice. across. age. all. along. always. appear. both. centralize. civil. constructions. cultural. culture. distinctive. dont. explains. exploring. features. gender. have. lines. operated. power. race. religions. religious. that. these. together. ways. work. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013 9783110706444 print 9780814767627 https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814767627.001.0001 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814768440 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780814768440/original |
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