The Curse of Cain
The Violent Legacy of Monotheism
Format:Paperback
Publisher:The University of Chicago Press
Published:29th Oct '98
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Regina Schwartz examines the story of Cain and Abel, as she sees it - emblematic of a tenacious, tragic biblical influence over Western secular notions of identity - notions that are often violently exclusionary, negatively defining "us" against "them" in ethnic, religious, racial, gender and nationalistic terms. Shwartz contends that the very concept of monotheism and its paradigms of One-ness - the demand for exclusive allegiance to one God, one People, one Land or one Nation - infuse the model of collective identity founded in violence, against the other or outsider. Aiming to recover the Bible's role as a handbook for politics and social thought, this text seeks to demonstrate how dangerous this can be.
ISBN: 9780226742007
Dimensions: 23mm x 15mm x 1mm
Weight: 340g
228 pages