9781479810345-1479810347-Religion and US Empire: Critical New Histories (North American Religions)

Religion and US Empire: Critical New Histories (North American Religions)

ISBN-13: 9781479810345
ISBN-10: 1479810347
Author: Tisa Wenger, Sylvester A. Johnson
Publication date: 2022
Publisher: NYU Press
Format: Hardcover 384 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781479810345
ISBN-10: 1479810347
Author: Tisa Wenger, Sylvester A. Johnson
Publication date: 2022
Publisher: NYU Press
Format: Hardcover 384 pages

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Religion and US Empire: Critical New Histories (North American Religions) (ISBN-13: 9781479810345 and ISBN-10: 1479810347), written by authors Tisa Wenger, Sylvester A. Johnson, was published by NYU Press in 2022. With an overall rating of 4.3 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Religion and US Empire: Critical New Histories (North American Religions) (Hardcover) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.59.

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Shows how American forms of religion and empire developed in tandem, shaping and reshaping each other over the course of American history
The United States has been an empire since the time of its founding, and this empire is inextricably intertwined with American religion. Religion and US Empire examines the relationship between these dynamic forces throughout the country's history and into the present. The volume will serve as the most comprehensive and definitive text on the relationship between US empire and American religion.
Whereas other works describe religion as a force that aided or motivated American imperialism, this comprehensive new history reveals how imperialism shaped American religion--and how religion historically structured, enabled, challenged, and resisted US imperialism. Chapters move chronologically from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, ranging geographically from the Caribbean, Michigan, and Liberia, to Oklahoma, Hawai'i, and the Philippines. Rather than situating these histories safely in the past, the final chapters ask readers to consider present day entanglements between capitalism, imperialism, and American religion. Religion and US Empire is an urgent work of history, offering the context behind a relationship that is, for better or worse, very much alive today.

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