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"A 'new America' or an America inheriting a version of Christianity that sanctioned the violence of holy war and the imperative of eliminating idolatry? In Susan Juster's fresh and intelligent retelling of our seventeenth-century beginnings, she uncovers what the rest of us have overlooked, themes of this kind that the colonists brought with them. A feat of research and argument." * David D. Hall, Harvard University *
"Sacred Violence in Early America is a marvelously sophisticated, energetic, and especially learned integration of European and American history on a tragically vexed subject. Susan Juster explores not just the 'background' notions about violence and its religious content but vividly demonstrates their often devastating transatlantic relationships up to the American Revolution." * Jon Butler, Yale University *

Table of Contents

Preface
Introduction
Chapter 1. Blood Sacrifice
Chapter 2. Holy War
Chapter 3. Malediction
Chapter 4. Iconoclasm
Conclusion
Notes
Index

Sacred Violence in Early America

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      Publisher University of Pennsylvania Press
      Published 3 April 2018
      ISBN-13 9780812224191
      978-0812224191
      ISBN-10 0812224191

      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Trade Review
      "A 'new America' or an America inheriting a version of Christianity that sanctioned the violence of holy war and the imperative of eliminating idolatry? In Susan Juster's fresh and intelligent retelling of our seventeenth-century beginnings, she uncovers what the rest of us have overlooked, themes of this kind that the colonists brought with them. A feat of research and argument." * David D. Hall, Harvard University *
      "Sacred Violence in Early America is a marvelously sophisticated, energetic, and especially learned integration of European and American history on a tragically vexed subject. Susan Juster explores not just the 'background' notions about violence and its religious content but vividly demonstrates their often devastating transatlantic relationships up to the American Revolution." * Jon Butler, Yale University *

      Table of Contents

      Preface
      Introduction
      Chapter 1. Blood Sacrifice
      Chapter 2. Holy War
      Chapter 3. Malediction
      Chapter 4. Iconoclasm
      Conclusion
      Notes
      Index

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