God-fearing and free a spiritual history of America's Cold War /
Religion has been on the rise in America for decades -- which strikes many as a shocking new development. To the contrary, Jason Stevens asserts, the rumors of the death of God were premature. Americans have always conducted their cultural life through religious symbols, never more so than during th...
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Harvard University Press,
2010.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Going beyond modernism from World War I to the Cold War
- Pt. 1. How a theologican served the opinion elite, and how an evangelist startled them. Christianity, reason, and the national character
- Origins of an ailing polemic
- Pt. 2. Narratives of blindness and insight in an era of confession. Guilt of the thirties, penitence of the fifties
- McCarthyism through sentimental melodrama and film noir
- Pt. 3. Cold War cultural politics and the varieties of religious experience. The mass culture critique's implications for American religion
- Jeremiads on the American arcade and its consumption ethic
- Pt. 4. Versions of inwardness in Cold War psychology and the neo-Gothic. Controversies over therapeutic religion
- Locating the enigma of Shirley Jackson
- Pt. 5. The styles of prophecy. Voices of reform, radicalism, and conservative dissent
- James Baldwin and the wages of innocence
- Epilogue: Putting an end to ending our innocence.