Prodigal Nation
Moral Decline and Divine Punishment from New England to 9/11
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 13 November 2008
- ISBN 9780195321289
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages248 pages
- Size 157x234x12 mm
- Weight 479 g
- Language English 0
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America's supposed moral decline from an imagined golden age, and the threat of divine punishment for the sin of straying from the path of righteousness, have been consistent themes in its political and religious rhetoric. But why is this myth so compelling to Americans? In Prodigal Nation, Andrew Murphy investigates the jeremiad's historical roots and probes the ways in which it continues to illuminate larger themes and tensions in American social and political life. He examines its role in colonial New England, shows how it was employed during the Civil War, and demonstrates its continued power in today's political climate. Far from being simply a force for conservatism-the yearning for a return to "a simpler time"-the jeremiad has often been employed in favor of progressive causes. Americans of all political stripes-not just Jerry Falwell and Pat Robertson, but Abraham Lincoln and Robert Kennedy-have used the language of moral decline for political purposes. Murphy shows how Americans' powerful attachment to an idealized past, and the hope of a return to John Winthrop's imagined "City on a Hill," continue to shape public life.
a wide-ranging and thoughtful meditation ... This book deserves an honored place among the oeuvre of work by political scientists and historians on the jeremiad.
Table of Contents:
The American Jeremiad: Politics, Religion, Rhetoric, and History
PART I. THREE AMERICAN JEREMIADS
Puritan New England and the Foundations of the American Jeremiad
Decline, Slavery, and War: The Jeremiad in Antebellum and Civil War America
Taking America Back: The Christian Right Narrative of Decline and Renewal
PART II. THE JEREMIAD IN AMERICAN CULTURE: NARRATIVE, HISTORY, AND POLITICS
The Jeremiad as Narrative: Capacious and Constraining Stories of American Nationhood
Constructing a Usable Past: Memory, Nostalgia, and the Golden Age
Restorationism versus Pluralism: Traditionalist and Progressive Jeremiads in the American Culture Wars
Narratives and National Identity: Toward a More Capacious Jeremiad
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