RT Article
T1 War-Culture and Sacrifice
JF Feminist theology
VO 18
IS 2
SP 175
OP 191
A1 Denton-Borhaug, Kelly
LA English
PB Sage
YR 2010
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1776894863
AB What would we say about the losses associated with war if we did not describe them as sacrifices? What would we say about Jesus’ life and death if we did not associate the Gospel narratives with a cosmic framework of sacrificial self giving? This article first explores and exposes the interpenetration of the ethos, institutions and culture of militarism in the United States’ culture at large. The somewhat heightened awareness regarding US ‘war-culture’ leads to questions regarding its supporting pillars and dynamics. Thus, second, the article investigates the rhetoric and practices of sacrifice that act as an electrical current running between war-culture and popular understandings and practices of Christianity in the United States of America. Frameworks of sacrifice both animate war-culture and simultaneously mask its operations with a sacred canopy. Consequently, we must face the difficult but all-important question: is there any way to rehabilitate understandings of sacrifice for Christianity without at the same time aiding and abetting war-culture?
K1 War-culture
K1 Soteriology
K1 Sacrifice
K1 Militarization
DO 10.1177/0966735009348552