Natural Religion In American Literature
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Natural Religion In American Literature
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Author : Arnold Smithline
language : en
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Release Date : 1966
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Invisible Conversations
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Author : Roger Lundin
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009
Invisible Conversations written by Roger Lundin and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009 with History categories.
In joining the rich conversations that have enlivened American culture for centuries, Invisible Conversations seeks to bring to light the vital role that religion has played in the literature of the United States.
Belief And Disbelief In American Literature
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Author : Howard Mumford Jones
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1967
Belief And Disbelief In American Literature written by Howard Mumford Jones and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1967 with Literary Criticism categories.
Tom Paine and republican religion -- Landscape as religion: Irving, Bryant, Cooper -- Transcendentalism and Emerson -- The cosmic optimism of Walt Whitman -- The pessimism of Mark Twain -- The cosmic loneliness of Robert Frost.
Making Nature Sacred
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Author : John Gatta
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2004-10-14
Making Nature Sacred written by John Gatta and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-10-14 with Religion categories.
Since colonial times, the sense of encountering an unseen, transcendental Presence within the natural world has been a characteristic motif in American literature and culture. American writers have repeatedly perceived in nature something beyond itself-and beyond themselves. In this book, John Gatta argues that the religious import of American environmental literature has yet to be fully recognized or understood. Whatever their theology, American writers have perennially construed the nonhuman world to be a source, in Rachel Carson's words, of "something that takes us out of ourselves." Making Nature Sacred explores how the quest for "natural revelation" has been pursued through successive phases of American literary and intellectual history. And it shows how the imaginative challenge of "reading" landscapes has been influenced by biblical hermeneutics. Though focused on adaptations of Judeo-Christian religious traditions, it also samples Native American, African American, and Buddhist forms of ecospirituality. It begins with Colonial New England writers such Anne Bradstreet and Jonathan Edwards, re-examines pivotal figures such as Henry Thoreau and John Muir, and takes account of writings by Mary Austin, Rachel Carson, and many others along the way. The book concludes with an assessment of the "spiritual renaissance" underway in current environmental writing, as represented by five noteworthy poets and by authors such as Wendell Berry, Annie Dillard, Marilynne Robinson, Peter Matthiessen, and Barry Lopez. This engaging study should appeal not only to students of literature, but also to those interested in ethics and environmental studies, religious studies, and American cultural history.
Loving God S Wildness
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Author : Jeffrey Bilbro
language : en
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
Release Date : 2015-04-30
Loving God S Wildness written by Jeffrey Bilbro and has been published by University of Alabama Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-30 with Literary Criticism categories.
Analyzing writings ranging from the Puritans to the present day, Loving God's Wildness traces the effects of Christian theology on America's ecological imagination, revealing the often conflicted ways in which Americans relate to and perceive the natural world.
Culture And Redemption
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Author : Tracy Fessenden
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2007
Culture And Redemption written by Tracy Fessenden and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Literary Criticism categories.
Many Americans wish to believe that the United States, founded in religious tolerance, has gradually and naturally established a secular public sphere that is equally tolerant of all religions--or none. Culture and Redemption suggests otherwise. Tracy Fessenden contends that the uneven separation of church and state in America, far from safeguarding an arena for democratic flourishing, has functioned instead to promote particular forms of religious possibility while containing, suppressing, or excluding others. At a moment when questions about the appropriate role of religion in public life have become trenchant as never before, Culture and Redemption radically challenges conventional depictions--celebratory or damning--of America's "secular" public sphere. Examining American legal cases, children's books, sermons, and polemics together with popular and classic works of literature from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, Culture and Redemption shows how the vaunted secularization of American culture proceeds not as an inevitable by-product of modernity, but instead through concerted attempts to render dominant forms of Protestant identity continuous with democratic, civil identity. Fessenden shows this process to be thoroughly implicated, moreover, in practices of often-violent exclusion that go to the making of national culture: Indian removals, forced acculturations of religious and other minorities, internal and external colonizations, and exacting constructions of sex and gender. Her new readings of Emerson, Whitman, Melville, Stowe, Twain, Gilman, Fitzgerald, and others who address themselves to these dynamics in intricate and often unexpected ways advance a major reinterpretation of American writing.
Nature Religion In America
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Author : Catherine L. Albanese
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1991-09-24
Nature Religion In America written by Catherine L. Albanese and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991-09-24 with Body, Mind & Spirit categories.
Charts the multiple histories of American nature religion and explores the moral and spiritual responses the encounter with nature has provoked throughout American history. Traces the connections between movements and individuals. Includes figures from popular culture such as the Hutchinson Family Singers and Davy Crockett as well as Thomas Jefferson, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and John Muir.
The Economy Of Religion In American Literature
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Author : Andrew Ball
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2022-04-07
The Economy Of Religion In American Literature written by Andrew Ball and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-04-07 with Literary Criticism categories.
Examining how economic change influences religion, and the way literature mediates that influence, this book provides a thorough reassessment of modern American culture. Focusing on the period 1840-1940, the author shows how the development of capitalism reshaped American Protestantism and addresses the necessary role of literature in that process. Arguing that the “spirit of capitalism” was not fostered by traditional Puritanism, Ball explores the ways that Christianity was transformed by the market and industrial revolutions. This book refutes the long-held secularization thesis by showing that modernity was a time when new forms of the sacred proliferated, and that this religious flourishing was essential to the production of American culture. Ball draws from the work of Émile Durkheim and cultural sociology to interpret modern social upheavals like religious awakenings, revivalism, and the labor movement. Examining work from writers like Rebecca Harding Davis, Jack London, and Countee Cullen, he shows how concepts of salvation fundamentally intersect with matters of race, gender, and class, and proposes a theory that explains the enchantment of modern American society.
The Pragmatist Turn
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Author : Giles Gunn
language : en
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Release Date : 2017-12-08
The Pragmatist Turn written by Giles Gunn and has been published by University of Virginia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
In The Pragmatist Turn, renowned scholar of American literature and thought Giles Gunn offers a new critical history of the way seventeenth-century religion and the eighteenth-century Enlightenment influenced the formation of subsequent American writing. This shaping was dependent on their pragmatic refiguration less as systems of belief and thought than as frames of reflection and structures of feeling, what he calls spiritual imaginaries.Drawing on a large number of figures from earlier periods and examining how they influenced generations of writers from the nineteenth century into the early twenty-first —including Henry Adams, Frederick Douglass, Emily Dickinson, Herman Melville, William James, Henry James, Kenneth Burke, and Toni Morrison—Gunn reveals how the idea or symbolic imaginary of "America" itself was drastically altered in the process. As only a seasoned scholar can, Gunn here presents the history of American religion and literature in broad strokes necessary to reveal the seismic philosophical shifts that helped form the American canon.
Natural Religion
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Author : Theodore W. Haven
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1891
Natural Religion written by Theodore W. Haven and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1891 with Natural theology categories.