Title Empire of sacrifice : the religious origins of American violence / Jon Pahl.

Publication Info.	New York : New York University Press, [2010]
	©2010

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Description	1 online resource (xiv, 257 pages) : illustrations
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-249) and index.
Contents	Introduction : blessed brutalities -- Rethinking violence and religion in America -- Sacrificing youth : from Reefer madness to Hostel -- Sacrificing race : "the slaveholding religion" from Jarena Lee to Spike Lee -- Sacrificing gender : from "Republican mothers" to Defense of Marriage Acts -- Sacrificing humans : an empire of sacrifice from Mary Dyer to Dead man walking -- Epilogue : innocent domination in the "Global war on terror."
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Subject	Christianity and culture -- United States.
	Christianity and culture.
	United States.
	Violence -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
	Violence -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
	Violence -- United States.
	Violence.
	Sacrifice -- Social aspects -- United States.
	Sacrifice.
	Social aspects.
	United States -- Church history.
	Church history.
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	Church history.
Other Form:	Print version: Pahl, Jon, 1958- Empire of sacrifice. New York : New York University Press, ©2010 9780814767627 (DLC) 2009030331 (OCoLC)326484275
ISBN	9781441636645 (electronic book)
	1441636641 (electronic book)
	9780814767627 (cl ; alkaline paper)
	0814767621 (cl ; alkaline paper)