Exodus and liberation : deliverance politics from John Calvin to Martin Luther King Jr /
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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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2014
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Table of 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
- 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