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, Amerikkka 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.
Author(s): Rosemary Radford Ruether
Series: Religion and Violence
Edition: First
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 288
City: Abingdon, Oxon
Tags: politics, imperialism, colonialism, hegemony, american exceptionalism
Cover
Half Title
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Introduction THE TWO FACES OF AMERICA: THE IDEAL AMERICA AS DECEPTION AND AS PROTEST
Chapter One ELECT NATIONS OF EUROPE AND THE MAKING OF THE AMERICAN MYTH OF CHOSENNESS
Chapter Two THE RIGHTS OF MAN AND THE EXCLUDED OTHERS — THE REVOLUTIONARY ERA AND BEYOND
Chapter Three MANIFEST DESTINY AND ANGLO-SAXON RACISM — 1815-1875
Chapter Four MANIFEST DESTINY AND AMERICAN EMPIRE: 1890-1934
Chapter Five AMERICA'S GLOBAL MISSION: THE COLD WAR ERA, 1945-89
Chapter Six AMERICAN EMPIRE AND ITS DENOUEMENT: 1990-2007
Chapter Seven ALTERNATIVE VISIONS OF AMERICA: THE PROTEST TRADITION
Chapter Eight TOWARD A U.S. THEOLOGY OF LIBERATION AND LETTING GO
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX OF BIBLICAL REFERENCES
GENERAL INDEX
