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Author:

McKanan, Dan, 1967-

Title:

Identifying the image of God : radical Christians and nonviolent power in the antebellum United States / Dan McKanan.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2002

Description:

viii, 294 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Christian sociology--United States--History--19th century.
Liberalism (Religion)--United States--History--19th century.
Image of God--History--United States--History--19th century.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-279) and index.

Contents:

Wheat and tares: the liberal encounter with Puritan violence -- From sentimentality to social reform: the emergence of radical Christian liberalism -- The gospel, the declaration, and the divine child: theology and literature of ultra reform -- Looking for victims: violence and theology in temperance narratives -- Through the blood-stained gate: violence, birth, and the Imago Dei in fugitive slave narratives -- Epics of ambivalence: nonviolent power in Harriet Beecher Stowe's antislavery novels -- Violent messiahs: radical Christian liberals and the civil war.

Series:

Religion in America series

ISBN:

9780195145328 (alk. paper)
0195145321 (alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)50227850
(OCoLC)51683705

LCCN:

2002074933

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

PTAX572 -- Stewart Memorial Library (Cedar Rapids)

UTAX314 -- Emmaus Bible College Library (Dubuque)

UDAX314 -- Charles C. Myers Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)