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Theologies of American Exceptionalism

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Winnifred Fallers Sullivan
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Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
Contributors: Elisabeth AnkerBenjamin L. BergerFaisal DevjiSpencer DewStephanie FrankConstance FureyW. Clark GilpinM. Cooper HarrissShaul MagidNoah SalomonMatthew ShererLisa H. SiderisJoseph Winters

Theologies of American Exceptionalism is a collection of fifteen interlocking essays reflecting on the vagaries of 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. A print version of this volume will be available in summer 2020. This volume is the first in a book series titled “Religion and the Human” hosted by the IU Center for Religion and the Human.

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Table of Contents

  • Title Page
  • Acknowledgements
  • Preface
  • Section I: Love
    • Familiar Commerce and Covenantal Love
    • A Yet Unapproachable America
    • The Promise of Immanent Critique
  • Section II: Fiction
    • A History of America
    • The Great American Novel
    • Memories of the Future
  • Section III: Revolution
    • Revolution as Revelation
    • Exceptional Americanism
    • Unexceptionable Islam
  • Section IV: Commerce
    • The America-Game
    • American Techno-Optimism
    • Sovereign Exceptionality
  • Section V: Chosen
    • The Judeo-Christian Tradition
    • Sacrifice
    • Two Theologies of Chosenness
  • Appendix
  • Contributors

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    Arthur Cohen's "The Myth of the Judeo-Christian Tradition"

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    On the Border

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    Paul Kahn's Rorotoko Interview

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    The Jacob's Dream (1966)

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    Paul Kahn's "Political Theology"

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    Paul Preaching in Athens

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    When Manhattan was Mannahatta

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    Khizr Khan

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    John Winthrop's "A Model of Christian Charity"

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    M. Cooper Harriss' Twitter

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    Indiana University Press
  • publisher place
    Bloomington, Indiana USA
  • rights
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  • rights holder
    Trustees of Indiana University
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