RT Article
T1 Christian Conversion, the Double Consciousness, and Transcendentalist Religious Rhetoric
JF Religions
VO 8
IS 9
SP 1
OP 19
A1 Hodder, Alan
LA English
PB MDPI
YR 2017
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1586241001
AB Despite the theological gulf that separated the Transcendentalists from their Puritan predecessors, certain leading Transcendentalists—Emerson, Fuller, and Thoreau among them—often punctuated their writings, published and private, with literary representations of dramatic episodes of spiritual awakening whose rhetorical structure sometimes betrays suggestive parallels with traditional, recognizably Christian, forms of conversion rhetoric. While all of these Transcendentalists clearly showcase representations of dramatic religious experience in their work, this reliance on Christian rhetorical patterns is most obvious in the early writings of Emerson and Fuller. Thoreau's constructions reflect little ostensible Christian influence, yet even here, thematic continuities with earlier forms of religious self-expression are discernible.
K1 Henry David Thoreau
K1 Jones Very
K1 Margaret Fuller
K1 Ralph Waldo Emerson
K1 Transcendentalism
K1 William James
K1 Religious Experience
K1 Religious Rhetoric
DO 10.3390/rel8090163