Religion and the Human #: Theologies of American Exceptionalism

Religion and the Human #: Theologies of American Exceptionalism
W Clark Gilpin, Matthew Scherer, Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Constance Furey, Joseph Winters, M Cooper Harriss, Spencer Dew, Noah Salomon
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7 Sep 2021 US
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How does viewing the American project through a theological lens complicate and enrich our understanding of America? Theologies of American Exceptionalism is a collection of fifteen interlocking essays reflecting on exceptionalist claims in and about the United States. Loosely and generatively curious, these essays bring together a range of historical and contemporary voices, some familiar and some less so, to stimulate new thought about America. Thinking theologically allows authors to revisit familiar themes and events with a new perspective; old and new wounds, enduring narratives, and the sacrificial violence at the heart of America are examined while avoiding both the triumphalism of the exceptional and the temptations of the jeremiad. Thinking theologically also involves thinking, as Joseph Winters recommends, with the "unmourned. " It allows for an understanding of America as fundamentally religious in a very specific way. Together these essays challenge the reader to think America anew.

Winnifred Sullivan is Provost Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and Director of the Center of Religion and the Human at Indiana University Bloomington. She is author of The Impossibility of Religious Freedom, Prison Religion, A Ministry of Presence and Church State Corporation. Elizabeth Shakman Hurd is Professor of Political Science and Crown Chair in Middle East Studies at Northwestern University. She is the author of The Politics of Secularism in International Relations and Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion.
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ISBN-13: 9780253056566
Published: 7 Sep 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Weight: 236g
Pages: 154

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