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Genre/Form: | Electronic books History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: 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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Abstract:
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 work traces this idea through various kinds of literature, from novels to slave narratives.
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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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