Identifying the Image of God: Radical Christians and Nonviolent Power in the Antebellum United StatesBetween 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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They depicted them as loving members of families and as sensitive individuals
vulnerable to physical and emotional pain. The goal of such depictions was to get
other individuals to place themselves in the victims' shoes, and then to join the ...
They depicted them as loving members of families and as sensitive individuals
vulnerable to physical and emotional pain. The goal of such depictions was to get
other individuals to place themselves in the victims' shoes, and then to join the ...
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The God whose image they hoped to embody was a perfectly loving parent who
identified with, cared for, and shared the sufferings of every human individual.
The theology and politics of identification were thus both grounded in and at odds
...
The God whose image they hoped to embody was a perfectly loving parent who
identified with, cared for, and shared the sufferings of every human individual.
The theology and politics of identification were thus both grounded in and at odds
...
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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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Información bibliográfica
| Título | Identifying the Image of God: Radical Christians and Nonviolent Power in the Antebellum United States Religion in America |
| Autor | Dan McKanan |
| Editor | Oxford University Press, 2002 |
| ISBN | 0198033222, 9780198033226 |
| Largo | 304 páginas |
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