Religion and US Empire : : Critical New Histories /

Religion and US Empire : : Critical New Histories / / ed. by Sylvester A. Johnson, Tisa Wenger.

Shows how American forms of religion and empire developed in tandem, shaping and reshaping each other over the course of American historyThe United States has been an empire since the time of its founding, and this empire is inextricably intertwined with American religion. Religion and US Empire exa...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2022 English
MitwirkendeR:
Burnidge, Cara Lea,
Curtis, Heather D.,
Davidson, Christina C.,
Dees, Sarah,
Ebel, Jonathan,
Gerbner, Katharine,
Graber, Jennifer,
Grewal, Zareena A.,
Holscher, Kathleen,
Hulsether, Lucia,
Johnson, Sylvester A.,
McDaniel, Brennan,
Walther, Karine,
Wenger, Tisa,
HerausgeberIn:
Johnson, Sylvester A.,
Wenger, Tisa,
Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2022]
©2022
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:North American Religions
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Physical Description:1 online resource :; 14 b/w illustrations
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part I. Formations: Slavery, Settlers, and Salvation
  • Introduction
  • 1. Rebellion and Religion: Slavery and Empire in Early America
  • 2. Making Religion in Michilimackinac: Settler Secularism and US Empire
  • 3. A Colony Called Freedom: Religion, Empire, and Black Christian Settlers
  • Part II. Biopolitics: Imperial Classifications, Sentimental Reform, and Indigenous Tactics of Survival
  • Introduction
  • 4. Religion on the Brink: Settler-Colonial Knowledge Production in the US Census
  • 5. Imperial Intersections: Social Surveys, Sentimental Biopolitics, and Religion at Hull House
  • 6. “They Call It Ghost Dance . . . But It’s Feather Dance”: Indigenous Histories in the Study of Religion and US Empire
  • Part III. Entanglements: Global Networks, Christian Missions, and the Racial Projects of US Empire
  • Introduction
  • 7. “The Same Blood as We in America”: Industrial Schooling and American Empire
  • 8. Black Spiritual Protest in Global Imperial Contexts, 1893–1920
  • 9. An Evangelical Occupation: The Racial and Imperial Politics of US Protestant Missions in the Dominican Republic
  • Part IV. Dialectics: Wastelanding, Weaponry, and Capitalist Exclusions
  • Introduction
  • 10. The Trouble of an Indian Diocese: Catholic Priests and Sexual Abuse in Colonized Places
  • 11. Fire from Heaven: Napalm, the Drone, and Evangelical Territoriality in the Age of Empire
  • 12. American Islam, Settler Colonialism, and Democratic Empires in the Work of Robert D. Crane
  • 13. Decolonization™
  • Acknowledgments
  • Bibliography
  • About the Editors
  • About the Contributors
  • Index

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