TY  - BOOK
AU  - Pahl,Jon
TI  - Empire of Sacrifice: The Religious Origins of American Violence 
SN  - 9780814767627
AV  - BR517 .P34 2016
U1  - 261.8 23
PY  - 2010///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - New York University Press, 
KW  - Christianity and culture
KW  - United States
KW  - Sacrifice
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Violence
KW  - Religious aspects
KW  - Christianity
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - American
KW  - Empire
KW  - Pahl
KW  - across
KW  - age
KW  - all
KW  - along
KW  - always
KW  - appear
KW  - both
KW  - centralize
KW  - civil
KW  - constructions
KW  - cultural
KW  - culture
KW  - distinctive
KW  - dont
KW  - explains
KW  - exploring
KW  - features
KW  - gender
KW  - have
KW  - lines
KW  - operated
KW  - power
KW  - race
KW  - religions
KW  - religious
KW  - that
KW  - these
KW  - together
KW  - ways
KW  - work
N1  - restricted access
N2  - 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
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