Mid-Century World

by Roger Morgan

Book Overview

Working to reconcile the Christian dictum to "love one's neighbor as oneself" with evidence of U.S. sociopolitical aggression, including slavery, corporal punishment of children, and Indian removal, Elizabeth Barnes focuses her attention on aggressors--rather than the weak or abused--to suggest ways of understanding paradoxical relationships between empathy, violence, and religion that took hold so strongly in nineteenth-century American culture...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0882250809
• ISBN13: 9780882250809
• Release Date: January 1975
• Publisher: Newsweek Books
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 2.40 lbs.