Religion and US Empire

Download or Read eBook Religion and US Empire PDF written by Tisa Wenger and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Religion and US Empire
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Publisher : NYU Press
Total Pages : 234
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ISBN-10 : 9781479810376
ISBN-13 : 1479810371
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Book Synopsis Religion and US Empire by : Tisa Wenger

Book excerpt: 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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