Theologies of American Exceptionalism

Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Elizabeth Shakman Hurd, Constance Furey , Matthew Scherer

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Indiana University Press
07 September 2021

Religious issues & debates; Religious groups: social & cultural aspects

Series: Religion and the Human

How does viewing the American project through a theological lens complicate and enrich our understanding of America? Theologies of American Exceptionalism is a collection of fifteen interlocking essays reflecting on exceptionalist claims in and about the United States. Loosely and generatively curious, these essays bring together a range of historical and contemporary voices, some familiar and some less so, to stimulate new thought about America. Thinking theologically allows authors to revisit familiar themes and events with a new perspective; old and new wounds, enduring narratives, and the sacrificial violence at the heart of America are examined while avoiding both the triumphalism of the exceptional and the temptations of the jeremiad. Thinking theologically also involves thinking, as Joseph Winters recommends, with the ""unmourned."" It allows for an understanding of America as fundamentally religious in a very specific way. Together these essays challenge the reader to think America anew.

Contributions by: Constance Furey, Matthew Scherer, Joseph Winters
Edited by: Winnifred Fallers Sullivan, Elizabeth Shakman Hurd
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm,
Weight: 399g
ISBN: 9780253061706
ISBN 10: 0253061709
Series: Religion and the Human
Pages: 154
Publication Date: 07 September 2021
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments Note on the Print Edition Preface Love 1. Familiar Commerce and Covenantal Love, by Constance Furey 2. A Yet Unapproachable America, by Matthew Scherer 3. The Promise of Immanent Critique, by Joseph Winters Fiction 4. ""A History of America"": Comments on Johnson v M'Intosh, by Winnifred Fallers Sullivan 5. The Great American Novel, by M. Cooper Harriss 6. Memories of the Future, by W. Clark Gilpin Revolution 7. Revolution as Revelation, by Spencer Dew 8. Exceptional Americanism, by Noah Salomon 9. Unexceptionable Islam, by Faisal Devji Commerce 10. The America-Game, by Elizabeth Shakman Hurd 11. American Techno-Optimism, by Lisa H. Sideris 12. Sovereign Exceptionality, by Elisabeth Anker Chosen 13. The Judeo-Christian Tradition, by Shaul Magid 14. Sacrifice, by Stephanie Frank 15. Two Theologies of Chosenness, by Benjamin L. Berger Appendix Contributors

Winnifred Sullivan is Provost Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and Director of the Center of Religion and the Human at Indiana University Bloomington. She is author of The Impossibility of Religious Freedom, Prison Religion, A Ministry of Presence and Church State Corporation. Elizabeth Shakman Hurd is Professor of Political Science and Crown Chair in Middle East Studies at Northwestern University. She is the author of The Politics of Secularism in International Relations and Beyond Religious Freedom: The New Global Politics of Religion.