Sacred violence in early America
"Sacred Violence in Early America offers a sweeping reinterpretation of the violence endemic to seventeenth-century English colonization by reexamining some of the key moments of cultural and religious encounter in North America. Susan Juster explores different forms of sacred violence--blood s...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania Press
[2016]
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| In: | Year: 2016 |
| Series/Journal: | Early American studies
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
North America
/ Religion
/ Violence
/ History 1600-1700
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| IxTheo Classification: | CH Christianity and Society |
| Further subjects: | B
Violence
history
B Religion and Psychology B Punishment (America) Religious aspects History 17th century B Violence (North America) Religious aspects History 17th century B North America History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 B Punishment history B Exposure to Violence history |
| Summary: | "Sacred Violence in Early America offers a sweeping reinterpretation of the violence endemic to seventeenth-century English colonization by reexamining some of the key moments of cultural and religious encounter in North America. Susan Juster explores different forms of sacred violence--blood sacrifice, holy war, malediction, and iconoclasm--to uncover how European traditions of ritual violence developed during the wars of the Reformation were introduced and ultimately transformed in the New World. Juster's central argument concerns the rethinking of the relationship between the material and the spiritual worlds that began with the Reformation and reached perhaps its fullest expression on the margins of empire. The Reformation transformed the Christian landscape from an environment rich in sounds, smells, images, and tactile encounters, both divine and human, to an austere space of scriptural contemplation and prayer. When English colonists encountered the gods and rituals of the New World, they were forced to confront the unresolved tensions between the material and spiritual within their own religious practice. Accounts of native cannibalism, for instance, prompted uneasy comparisons with the ongoing debate among Reformers about whether Christ was bodily present in the communion wafer."--Dust jacket Introduction -- Blood sacrifice -- Holy war -- Malediction -- Iconoclasm -- Conclusion |
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| ISBN: | 0812248139 |