Description
Book SynopsisTrade 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 *
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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 ContentsPreface
Introduction
Chapter 1. Blood Sacrifice
Chapter 2. Holy War
Chapter 3. Malediction
Chapter 4. Iconoclasm
Conclusion
Notes
Index
