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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 pioneered a 'politics of identification' which portrayed minority and socially excluded groups as both physically vunerable and socially related. This text traces the theme of identification through the literature of social reform.
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McKanan, Dan, 1967-
Identifying the image of God.
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002
(DLC) 2002074933
(OCoLC)50227850
Material Type: Document, Internet resource
Document Type: Internet Resource, Computer File
All Authors / Contributors: Dan McKanan
ISBN: 9780198033226 0198033222 9780195145328 0195145321
OCLC Number: 57365295
Description: 1 online resource (viii, 294 pages)
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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