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Exodus and liberation : Deliverance politics from John Calvin to Martin Luther King Jr. / John Coffey.
Publisher: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2014]Description: xi, 301 pages : illustrations ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780199334223 (hbk. : alk. paper)
- 0199334226 (hbk. : alk. paper)
- 261.7097 COF 23
- BT810.3 .C64 2014
Contents:
Introduction : "Biblical traditions that call for liberation" -- "The only parallel" : the Puritan revolution as England's exodus -- "God's favourite people" : the revolutions of 1688 and 1776 -- "Pretended votaries of freedom" : the rise of Protestant antislavery to 1807 -- "Yours for the jubilee" : the abolitionists' scriptural imagination, 1808-1865 -- "When Israel was in Egyptland" : black exodus politics, 1808-1865 -- "I have seen the promised land" : the persistence of deliverance politics, 1865-2008 -- Conclusion : sacred texts, godly readers, and historical change.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 265-286) and index.
Introduction : "Biblical traditions that call for liberation" -- "The only parallel" : the Puritan revolution as England's exodus -- "God's favourite people" : the revolutions of 1688 and 1776 -- "Pretended votaries of freedom" : the rise of Protestant antislavery to 1807 -- "Yours for the jubilee" : the abolitionists' scriptural imagination, 1808-1865 -- "When Israel was in Egyptland" : black exodus politics, 1808-1865 -- "I have seen the promised land" : the persistence of deliverance politics, 1865-2008 -- Conclusion : sacred texts, godly readers, and historical change.
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