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America, Amerikkka (Radford Ruether, Rosemary)
America, Amerikkka
Untertitel Elect Nation and Imperial Violence
Autor Radford Ruether, Rosemary
Verlag Taylor & Francis Ebooks
Sprache Englisch
Mediaform PDF
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
Seiten 288 S.
Artikelnummer 18405606
ISBN 978-1-317-49124-8
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Kopierschutz DRM Adobe
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Zusammenfassung
America views itself as a nation inhabiting a "promised land" and enjoying a favoured relation with God. This view of unique election has been coupled with racial exclusivism and the marginalization of non-white citizens.America, Amerikkkaa traces the historical and ideological patterns behind America's sense of itself. In its examination of America's "chosenness", the book ranges across the doctrine of the "rights of man" in the 18th and 19th centuries, the role of America in the twentieth century as "global policeman", and the enforcement of neo-colonial relations over the "third world". The volume argues for a vision of global relations between peoples based on justice and mutuality, rather than hegemonic dominance.

Traces the historical and ideological patterns of the US American view of themselves as an elect nation inhabiting a "promised land" and enjoying a uniquely favored relation with God and a mission to spread "redemption" qua "democracy" throughout the world.

Rosemary Radford Ruether is Visting Professor of Religion at Claremont Graduate University, USA