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  title info:
    title: Theologies of American exceptionalism
  name:
    name part: Sullivan, Winnifred Fallers
    name part: 1950-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Hurd, Elizabeth Shakman
    name part: 1970-
    role:
      role term: editor.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: inu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xv, 137 pages ; 23 cm.
  abstract: How does viewing the American project through a theological lens complicate and enrich our understanding of America? Theologies of American Exceptionalism is a collection of fifteen interlocking essays reflecting on exceptionalist claims in and about the United States. Loosely and generatively curious, these essays bring together a range of historical and contemporary voices, some familiar and some less so, to stimulate new thought about America. Thinking theologically allows authors to revisit familiar themes and events with a new perspective, old and new wounds, enduring narratives and the sacrificial violence at the heart of America are examined while avoiding both the triumphalism of the exceptional and the temptations of the jeremiad. Thinking theologically also involves thinking, as Joseph Winters recommends, with the "unmourned." It allows for an understanding of America as fundamentally religious in a very specific way. Together these essays challenge the reader to think America anew.
  table of contents: I. Love -- 1. Familiar Commerce and Covenantal Love / Constance Furey -- 2. A Yet Unapproachable America / Matthew Scherer -- 3. The Promise of Immanent Critique / Joseph Winters -- II. Fiction -- 4. "A History of America": Comments on Johnson v M'Intosh / Winnifred Fallers Sullivan -- 5. The Great American Novel / M. Cooper Harriss -- 6. Memories of the Future / W. Clark Gilpin -- III. Revolution -- 7. Revolution as Revelation / Spencer Dew -- 8. Exceptional Americanism / Noah Salomon -- 9. Unexceptionable Islam / Faisal Devji -- IV. Commerce -- 10. The America-Game / Elizabeth Shakman Hurd -- 11. American Techno-Optimism / Lisa H. Sideris -- 12. Sovereign Exceptionality / Elisabeth Anker -- V. Chosenness -- 13. The Judeo-Christian Tradition / Shaul Magid -- 14. Sacrifice / Stephanie Frank -- 15. Two Theologies of Chosenness / Benjamin L. Berger.
  note: edited by Winnifred Fallers Sullivan and Elizabeth Shakman Hurd.
  note: Includes bibliographical references.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Religion and politics
    geographic: United States
  subject:
    topic: Exceptionalism
    topic: Religious aspects
  subject:
    topic: Exceptionalism
    geographic: United States
  classification: BL2525 .T487 2021
  classification: 201.720973
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Religion and the human
  identifier: 9780253056566
  identifier: 025305656X
  identifier: 9780253061706
  identifier: 0253061709
  record info:
    record content source: YDX
    record creation date: 200524
    record change date: 20220105171011.0
    record identifier: in00004365988