Plowshares : protest, performance, and religious identity in the nuclear age / Kristen Tobey.

By:

Tobey, Kristen, 1978- [author.]

Publisher: University Park, Pennsylvania : The Pennsylvania State University Press, [2016]Description: 1 online resource (ix, 174 pages)Content type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780271078304
0271078308

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Genre/Form:

Electronic books.

Additional physical formats: Print version:: Plowshares.DDC classification:

261.8/73206 23

LOC classification:

BR115.A85 T63 2016eb

Online resources:

EBSCOhost

Contents:

"We in the underground are trying to do something else" : the Plowshares' history and development -- "Something deeper than reason" : the logic and tactics of symbolic disarmament -- "Our only real credential" : the rhetorical performance of symbolic boundaries -- "Just to speak the truth" : the Plowshares' theory of the case -- "Your honor, I object.... she is talking about God" : boundary negotiations in the courtroom.

Summary: "Explores the actions of the radical Roman Catholic antinuclear activist group Plowshares. Focuses on the closely interwoven religious and social significance of the group's actions and subsequent legal trials, which rely on performances of moral distinction to achieve the activists' aims"--Provided by publisher.

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"Explores the actions of the radical Roman Catholic antinuclear activist group Plowshares. Focuses on the closely interwoven religious and social significance of the group's actions and subsequent legal trials, which rely on performances of moral distinction to achieve the activists' aims"--Provided by publisher.