Empire of Sacrifice: The Religious Origins of American Violence
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| Rating | : | 4.26 (960 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0814768954 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 274 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-11-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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"I want those pages." according to Sarah. I ordered this book for a course I'm taking called Death & Dying. So far the book is very interesting. I hope I'm not missing any important details because pages 7 and 8 are just left out of the book for no apparent reason. I'm not really sure who's fault this is, NYU press or maybe the enemies of John Pahl who want to keep
He argues with scholars who situate religious violence largely outside of American borders, claiming instead that it is a recurrent feature in the formation and development of the United States. . Particularly helpful is Pahl's term innocent domination, describing a cultural attitude that champions violent systems while remaining convinced of its own virtuous intent. Building on the work of theorists like René Girard and Mark Juergensmeyer, Pahl lays out four historical case studies—about youth, race, gender, and capital punishment—to develop his theory: Americans have found ways to consider blessed some rather brutal attitudes and behaviors in patterns that are identifiably religious. (Feb.)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From Publishers Weekly In this scholarly but generally readable monograph, Lutheran Theological Seminary professor Pa
Since September 11, 2001, U.S. scholars have understandably discussed religious violence in terms of terrorist acts, a focus that follows U.S. 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. 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. Bush’s Baghdad. . policy. Pahl traces the development of these forms of systemic violence throughout American history and focuses an intense light on the complex and durable interactions between religion and violence in American history, from Puritan Boston to George W. 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