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Identifying the image of God : radical Christians and nonviolent power in the antebellum United States
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Identifying the image of God : radical Christians and nonviolent power in the antebellum United States

Author: Dan McKanan
Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Series: Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)
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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  Read more...
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Dan McKanan
ISBN: 0195145321 9780195145328
OCLC Number: 50227850
Description: viii, 294 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents: Wheat and tares: the liberal encounter with Puritan violence --
From sentimentality to social reform: the emergence of radical Christian liberalism --
The gospel, the declaration, and the divine child: theology and literature of ultra reform --
Looking for victims: violence and theology in temperance narratives --
Through the blood-stained gate: violence, birth, and the Imago Dei in fugitive slave narratives --
Epics of ambivalence: nonviolent power in Harriet Beecher Stowe's antislavery novels --
Violent messiahs: radical Christian liberals and the civil war.
Series Title: Religion in America series (Oxford University Press)
Responsibility: Dan McKanan.
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Between 1820 and 1860, American social reformers pioneered a "politics of identification", which invited people to identify with society's victims, seeing in their sufferings the image of God. This  Read more...

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intriguing insights ... McKanan provides a useful portrait of one category of antebellum reformers. The Journal of American History

 
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