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050 4 _aBR517
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072 7 _aSOC039000
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082 0 4 _a261.8
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084 _aonline - DeGruyter
100 1 _aPahl, Jon
_eautore
245 1 0 _aEmpire of Sacrifice :
_bThe Religious Origins of American Violence /
_cJon Pahl.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bNew York University Press,
_c[2010]
264 4 _c©2010
300 _a1 online resource
336 _atext
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520 _aIt 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.
538 _aMode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
546 _aIn English.
588 0 _aDescription based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 01. Nov 2023)
650 0 _aChristianity and culture
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aSacrifice
_xSocial aspects
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aViolence
_xReligious aspects
_xChristianity.
650 0 _aViolence
_zUnited States.
650 7 _aSOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion.
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