TY - BOOK ID - 78674146 TI - Weird John Brown PY - 2014 SN - 080479345X 9780804793452 9780804788502 0804788502 9780804793308 0804793301 PB - Stanford, California DB - UniCat KW - Brown, John, -- 1800-1859 -- Ethics. KW - Ethics, Modern. KW - Political theology. KW - Political violence -- Moral and ethical aspects. KW - Political violence -- Religious aspects -- Christianity. KW - Slavery -- Moral and ethical aspects -- United States. KW - 241.1*31 <0...> KW - 241.1*31 <0...> Politieke theologie. Bevrijdingstheologie--
KW - Politieke theologie. Bevrijdingstheologie--
KW - General ethics KW - Brown, John UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78674146 AB - Conventional wisdom holds that attempts to combine religion and politics will produce unlimited violence. Concepts such as jihad, crusade, and sacrifice need to be rooted out, the story goes, for the sake of more bounded and secular understandings of violence. Ted Smith upends this dominant view, drawing on Walter Benjamin, Giorgio Agamben, and others to trace the ways that seemingly secular politics produce their own forms of violence without limit. He brings this argument to life-and digs deep into the American political imagination-through a string of surprising reflections on John Brown, t ER -