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John Coffey

Exodus and Liberation

Deliverance Politics from John Calvin to Martin Luther King Jr.. Sprachen: Englisch. 24,0 cm / 16,1 cm / 2,2 cm ( B/H/T )
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316 Seiten
Dezember 2013
Oxford University Press

Biblical texts have been one of the most potent sources in the Western political imagination. Presenting a new account of how the Bible's liberationist texts were deployed and disputed at critical junctures in British and American history from the Reformation to the Civil Rights Movement,

John Coffey is Professor of Early Modern History at the University of Leicester

- Acknowledgments - Introduction: "Biblical Traditions that Call for Liberation" - Part I: Reformations, Revolutions, and Political Slavery - 1. "The Only Parallel": The Puritan Revolution as England's Exodus - 2. "God's Favourite People": The Revolutions of 1688 and 1776 - Part II: Abolitionists, African Americans, and Racial Slavery - 3. "Pretended Votaries of Freedom": The Rise of Protestant Antislavery to 1807 - 4. "Yours for the Jubilee": The Abolitionists' Scriptural Imagination, 1808-1865 - 5. "When Israel was in Egyptland": Black Exodus Politics, 1808-1865 - Part III: Exodus after Slavery - 6. "I Have Seen the Promised Land": The Persistence of Deliverance Politics, 1865-2008 - Conclusion: Sacred Texts, Godly Readers, and Historical Change - Notes - Bibliography - Index