Weird John Brown : divine violence and the limits of ethics / Ted A. Smith.

Weird John Brown : divine violence and the limits of ethics /

Conventional wisdom holds that attempts to combine religion and politics will produce unlimited violence. Concepts such as jihad, crusade, and sacrifice need to be rooted out, the story goes, for the sake of more bounded and secular understandings of violence. Ted Smith upends this dominant view, dr...

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Main Author: Smith, Ted A., 1968- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2014.
Series:Encountering traditions.
Subjects:
Brown, John, > 1800-1859 > Ethics.
Political violence > Moral and ethical aspects.
Political violence > Religious aspects > Christianity.
Slavery > Moral and ethical aspects > United States.
Political theology.
Ethics, Modern.
Online Access: Full text (Wentworth users only)
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
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Summary:Conventional wisdom holds that attempts to combine religion and politics will produce unlimited violence. Concepts such as jihad, crusade, and sacrifice need to be rooted out, the story goes, for the sake of more bounded and secular understandings of violence. Ted Smith upends this dominant view, drawing on Walter Benjamin, Giorgio Agamben, and others to trace the ways that seemingly secular politics produce their own forms of violence without limit. He brings this argument to life-and digs deep into the American political imagination-through a string of surprising reflections on John Brown, t.
Physical Description:1 online resource
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780804793452
080479345X
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Print version record.

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