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Religion and US Empire

Critical New Histories
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Shows how American forms of religion and empire developed in tandem, shaping and reshaping each other over the course of American history The United States has been an empire since the time of its founding, and this empire is inextricably intertwined with American religion. Religion and US Empire examines the relationship between these dynamic forces throughout the country's history and into the present. The volume will serve as the most comprehensive and definitive text on the relationship between US empire and American religion. Whereas other works describe religion as a force that aided or motivated American imperialism, this comprehensive new history reveals how imperialism shaped American religion-and how religion historically structured, enabled, challenged, and resisted US imperialism. Chapters move chronologically from the eighteenth century to the twenty-first, ranging geographically from the Caribbean, Michigan, and Liberia, to Oklahoma, Hawai'i, and the Philippines. Rather than situating these histories safely in the past, the final chapters ask readers to consider present day entanglements between capitalism, imperialism, and American religion. Religion and US Empire is an urgent work of history, offering the context behind a relationship that is, for better or worse, very much alive today.
Tisa Wenger is Associate Professor of American Religious History at Yale Divinity School. She is the author of Religious Freedom: The Contested History of an American Ideal (University of North Carolina Press, 2017) and We Have a Religion: The 1920s Pueblo Indian Dance Controversy and American Religious Freedom (University of North Carolina Press, 2009). Sylvester A. Johnson Directs the Center for Humanities at Virginia Tech and is a Professor in the Department of Religion and Culture. His research examines religion, race, national security, and technology. Among his other books is African American Religions, 1500-2000: Colonialism, Democracy, and Freedom.
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