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Exodus and liberation : deliverance politics from John Calvin to Martin Luther King Jr / john Coffey

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Coffey, John, 1969-
Published
Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Physical Description
1 online resource (xi, 301 pages) : illustrations
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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.
Summary
Tracing a series of political crises in Anglo-American history from the 16th-century Reformation to the civil rights movement Coffey excavates the history of deliverance politics testifying to the powerful political appeal of the Exodus, the Jubilee and the biblical language of liberty.
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ISBN
9780199334230 (electronic bk.)
0199334234 (electronic bk.)
9780199334223
0199334226
9780199369393 (electronic bk.)
0199369399 (electronic bk.)
Form of work
Electronic books
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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