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Plowshares : protest, performance, and religious identity in the nuclear age / Kristen Tobey.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2016]Description: 1 online resource (ix, 174 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780271078304
  • 0271078308
  • 9780271078281
  • 0271078286
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Plowshares.DDC classification:
  • 261.8/73206 23
LOC classification:
  • BR115.A85 T63 2016eb
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
Online resources:
Contents:
"We in the underground are trying to do something else" : the Plowshares' history and development -- "Something deeper than reason" : the logic and tactics of symbolic disarmament -- "Our only real credential" : the rhetorical performance of symbolic boundaries -- "Just to speak the truth" : the Plowshares' theory of the case -- "Your honor, I object ... she is talking about God" : boundary negotiations in the courtroom.
Summary: "Explores the actions of the radical Roman Catholic antinuclear activist group Plowshares. Focuses on the closely interwoven religious and social significance of the group's actions and subsequent legal trials, which rely on performances of moral distinction to achieve the activists' aims"--Provided by publisher
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Item type Current library Call number URL Status Notes Barcode
eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)1413119

"Explores the actions of the radical Roman Catholic antinuclear activist group Plowshares. Focuses on the closely interwoven religious and social significance of the group's actions and subsequent legal trials, which rely on performances of moral distinction to achieve the activists' aims"--Provided by publisher

Includes bibliographical references (pages 158-165) and index.

"We in the underground are trying to do something else" : the Plowshares' history and development -- "Something deeper than reason" : the logic and tactics of symbolic disarmament -- "Our only real credential" : the rhetorical performance of symbolic boundaries -- "Just to speak the truth" : the Plowshares' theory of the case -- "Your honor, I object ... she is talking about God" : boundary negotiations in the courtroom.

Print version record.