Is this America? Unfinished business with the U.S. national imaginary, religion and violence

This article first proposes definitions and raises questions about what it means to be a nation. I then analyze the national imaginary of the United States, and suggest that at its deepest core we find "substitute ultimates" regarding America's sacrificial war-culture. This cultural v...

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Main Author: Denton-Borhaug, Kelly (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Wiley-Blackwell [2019]
In: Dialog
Year: 2019, Volume: 58, Issue: 1, Pages: 30-38
RelBib Classification:AD Sociology of religion; religious policy
CG Christianity and Politics
KBQ North America
NCD Political ethics
Further subjects:B U.S. war-culture
B Nationalism
B prophetic public theology
B Violence
B Religion
B Sacrifice
B Moral Injury
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