Displacing the divine the minister in the mirror of American fiction /

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Tác giả chính: Walrath, Douglas Alan, 1933-
Tác giả của công ty: ebrary, Inc
Định dạng: Điện tử eBook
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: New York : Columbia University Press, c2010.
Loạt:Religion and American culture (New York, N.Y.)
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Mục lục:
  • Introduction: Fiction as a mirror of culture
  • Exposing the divine : 1790s-1850s
  • Faltering fathers and devious divines : popular images. Misfits in America ; Harsh Puritans and fanatical Calvinists ; Scoundrels in collars
  • Clerics in contention : church images. Liberal challengers ; Faithful Calvinists ; Precarious pastors
  • Vulnerable divines : radical images. Victims of their believing ; Perpetrators of oppression ; Exposing the divine
  • Discrediting the divine : 1860s-1920s
  • Compulsives and accommodators : popular images (1). Compelled believers ; Compulsive believers ; Accommodating believers ; Prudent believers
  • Con men in collars and heroes of the cloth : popular images (2). Phony preachers ; Muscular ministers ; Gallant parsons
  • Activist preachers and their detractors : popular images (3). Social ministers ; Entrenched reactionaries ; Social activists ; Utopian idealists
  • Champions of the faith : church images. Muscular believers ; Social evangelicals
  • Foundering divines : radical images. Inept contenders ; Anachronisms
  • Flawed divines : radical images. Weak and impotent men ; Pretenders, deceivers, and commercial preachers
  • The legacy : 1930s-2000s
  • Fallen divines : some contemporary images. Deprived preachers : a radical image ; Comic Calvinists : a popular and church image ; Human divines : a popular image
  • Conclusion: The legacy of the displaced divine. The displacing : a summary ; The legacy.