Religious intolerance, America, and the world: a history of forgetting and remembering
Introduction: Religious intolerance, trauma, and the international -- Proscribing Amalekites : violence, remembering, and forgetting in early America -- Projections : Antebellum Americans and the overseas crisis -- Protections : The nineteenth century turns--to the South -- Pursuits : The Cold War...
| Resumo: | Introduction: Religious intolerance, trauma, and the international -- Proscribing Amalekites : violence, remembering, and forgetting in early America -- Projections : Antebellum Americans and the overseas crisis -- Protections : The nineteenth century turns--to the South -- Pursuits : The Cold War and the hunt for intolerance -- Persecutions : The importation of intolerance in the twenty-first century. "American politics and culture are rife with people or groups demonizing others by projecting their own qualities onto them-from the cries of oppression heard at "tiki riots" to "No puppet, you're the puppet." But as John Corrigan shows, this isn't merely aggravating social behavior or transparent political maneuvering; it's a misdirected expression of trauma that is endemic to American institutions, American conceptions of self, and American history. Time and again, Corrigan shows, American churches in particular have campaigned against intolerance elsewhere even as they have abetted or performed it at home"-- |
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| Descrição do item: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Descrição Física: | viii, 289 Seiten |
| ISBN: | 022631393X |