Strange Jeremiahs civil religion and the literary imaginations of Jonathan Edwards, Herman Melville, and W.E.B. Du Bois /
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Lenguaje: | inglés |
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Albuquerque :
University of New Mexico Press,
2010.
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| Colección: | Religions of the Americas series.
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| Acceso en línea: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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- The beginning of the American Revolution in the conversion of Northampton. The travail of the Puritan covenant
- Original sin: human limitations and the openness of community
- God is no respecter of persons: the ordinary, lowly, and infantile nature of the revival
- The "strange revolution" and the aesthetics of grace
- The second great awakening, the national period, and Melville's American destiny. Pierre; or, The Ambiguities and the formation of the American dilemma
- A revolutionary marriage deferred
- The mystery of Melville's darkwoman
- From "self" to "soul": W.E.B. Du Bois's critical understanding of the ideals of liberal democracy in the new world. Strange Jeremiah: civil religion and the public intellectual
- Strivings and original sin: the unlovely, plural American soul
- The talented tenth and colonizing heroes
- Du Bois's aesthetic of beauty in the new world
- The irony of the American self.