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Identifying the image of God : radical Christians and nonviolent power in the antebellum United States /
Between 1820 and 1860, American social reformers pioneered a 'politics of identification' which portrayed minority and socially excluded groups as both physically vunerable and socially related. This text traces the theme of identification through the literature of social reform.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2002.
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| Colección: | Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Wheat and tares: the liberal encounter with Puritan violence
- From sentimentality to social reform: the emergence of radical Christian liberalism
- The gospel, the declaration, and the divine child: theology and literature of ultra reform
- Looking for victims: violence and theology in temperance narratives
- Through the blood-stained gate: violence, birth, and the Imago Dei in fugitive slave narratives
- Epics of ambivalence: nonviolent power in Harriet Beecher Stowe's antislavery novels
- Violent messiahs: radical Christian liberals and the civil war.