Immigration and Apocalypse: How the Book of Revelation Shaped American Immigration - Hardcover

Lin, Yii-jan

 
9780300253184: Immigration and Apocalypse: How the Book of Revelation Shaped American Immigration
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0300253184 ISBN 13: 9780300253184
Verlag: Yale University Press, 2024

Inhaltsangabe

Tracing the metaphor of America as the Book of Revelation’s New Jerusalem, Yii-Jan Lin shows how apocalyptic narratives have been used to exclude unwanted immigrants
 
America appeared on the European horizon at a moment of apocalyptic expectation and ambition. Explorers and colonizers imagined the land to be paradise, the New Jerusalem of the Bible’s Book of Revelation. This groundbreaking book explores the conceptualization of America as the New Jerusalem from the time of Columbus to the Puritan colonists, through U.S. expansion, and from the eras of Reagan to Trump.
 
While the metaphor of the New Jerusalem has been useful in portraying a shining, God-blessed refuge with open gates, it has also been used to exclude, attack, and criminalize unwanted peoples. Yii-Jan Lin shows how newspapers, political speeches, sermons, cartoons, and novels throughout American history have used the language of Revelation to define immigrants as those who must be shut out of America. This book exposes Revelation’s apocalyptic logic at work in the history of Chinese exclusion, the association of the unwanted with disease, the contradictions of citizenship laws, and the justification for building a U.S.-Mexico wall like the wall around the New Jerusalem.
 
This book is a fascinating analysis of the religious, biblical, and apocalyptic in American immigration history and a damning narrative that weaves together American religious history, immigration and ethnic studies, and the use of biblical texts and imagery.

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Yii-Jan Lin is a historian of ideas and biblical texts and the author of The Erotic Life of Manuscripts. She is associate professor of New Testament at the Yale Divinity School. She is based in New Haven, CT.

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Verlag
Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2024
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0300253184
ISBN 13 
9780300253184
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Anzahl der Seiten
256
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