U.S. War-Culture, Sacrifice and Salvation (Religion and Violence) - Hardcover

Denton-Borhaug, Kelly

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1845537106 ISBN 13: 9781845537104

Publisher: Routledge, 2011

Synopsis

The military-industrial complex in the United States has grown exponentially in recent decades, yet the realities of war remain invisible to most Americans. The U.S has created a culture in which sacrificial rhetoric is the norm when dealing in war. This culture has been enabled because popular American Christian understandings of redemption rely so heavily on the sacrificial. 'U.S War-Culture, Sacrifice and Salvation' explores how the concept of Christian redemption has been manipulated to create a mentality of "necessary sacrifice". The study reveals the links between Christian notions of salvation and sacrifice and the aims of the military-industrial complex.

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About the Author:

Kelly Denton-Borhaug is Associate Professor in the Dept. of Religion at Moravian College, where she teaches contemporary Christian theology and ethics. Her scholarly work explores feminist and other liberationist understandings of Christian redemption in order to critique elements of contemporary U.S. culture. She has written and published articles on feminism and Christian atonement, Christian ethics, war and peace, and torture. She is ordained in the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1845537106
• ISBN 13: 9781845537104
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 288