Identifying the Image of God: Radical Christians and Nonviolent Power in the Antebellum United StatesOxford University Press, 2002 M11 14 - 304 páginas Between 1820 and 1860, American social reformers invited all people to identify God's image in the victims of war, slavery, and addiction. Identifying the Image of God traces the theme of identification--and its liberal Christian roots--through the literature of social reform, focusing on sentimental novels, temperance tales, and slave narratives, and invites contemporary activists to revive the "politics of identification." |
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... tion could be the basis for a society free from all violence and coercion . McKanan integrates the perspectives of theolo- gy , history , and literary studies to provide a fuller picture of antebellum social reform . In an era when ...
... tion could be the basis for a society free from all violence and coercion . McKanan integrates the perspectives of theolo- gy , history , and literary studies to provide a fuller picture of antebellum social reform . In an era when ...
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... tion , and even within social reform organizations they rarely constituted a majority . Yet they played a central role in the shaping of United States culture between 1820 and 1860. In their activism and , especially , in their ...
... tion , and even within social reform organizations they rarely constituted a majority . Yet they played a central role in the shaping of United States culture between 1820 and 1860. In their activism and , especially , in their ...
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... tion rather than sovereign restraint : the goal was to ensure the child's exposure to influ- ences that would nurture in him or her rational faculties and moral virtues . From a Lockean point of view , parental or divine benevolence was ...
... tion rather than sovereign restraint : the goal was to ensure the child's exposure to influ- ences that would nurture in him or her rational faculties and moral virtues . From a Lockean point of view , parental or divine benevolence was ...
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... tion that a single breach of sexual propriety would lead inevitably to dissolution and death . In the antebellum novels of Catharine Sedgwick , Lydia Maria Child , and Eliza Buckminster Lee , by contrast , there are few irremediable ...
... tion that a single breach of sexual propriety would lead inevitably to dissolution and death . In the antebellum novels of Catharine Sedgwick , Lydia Maria Child , and Eliza Buckminster Lee , by contrast , there are few irremediable ...
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... tion to factual reality . And by stressing the discernment processes of ordinary historical agents , Scott ensured that his novels would have more moral relevance than the in- creasingly dispassionate works of professional historians ...
... tion to factual reality . And by stressing the discernment processes of ordinary historical agents , Scott ensured that his novels would have more moral relevance than the in- creasingly dispassionate works of professional historians ...
Contenido
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From Sentimentality to Social Reform The Emergence of Radical Christian Liberalism | 46 |
The Gospel the Declaration and the Divine Child Theology and Literature of Ultra Reform | 66 |
Looking for Victims Violence and Theology in Temperance Narratives | 102 |
Through the BloodStained Gate Violence Birth and the Imago Dei in Fugitive Slave Narratives | 127 |
Epics of Ambivalence Nonviolent Power in Harriet Beecher Stowes Antislavery Novels | 157 |
Violent Messiahs Radical Christian Liberals and the Civil War | 174 |
Liberal Irony | 215 |
Notes | 219 |
Bibliography | 257 |
Index | 281 |
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