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.
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