288 Pages
by
Routledge
288 Pages
by
Routledge
290 Pages
by
Routledge
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The military-industrial complex in the United States has grown exponentially in recent decades, yet the realities of war remain invisible to most Americans. The U.S has created a culture in which sacrificial rhetoric is the norm when dealing in war. This culture has been enabled because popular American Christian understandings of redemption rely so heavily on the sacrificial. 'U.S War-Culture,... Read more
Introduction
1. War-culture and Sacrifice
2. Building and Maintaining the Drive to War: Victimage Rhetoric, Framing, and the Language of Sacrifice
3. A Deadly Nexus: ‘Necessity,’ Christina Salvation and War-culture
4. Rehabilitating Sacrifice?
5. Detranscendentalizing War
Appendix: ‘Just This Once’ by Coleman Barks
Biography
Kelly Denton-Borhaug
