Strange Jeremiahs: Civil Religion and the Literary Imaginations of Jonathan Edwards, Herman Melville, and W.E.B. Du Bois. By Carole Lynn Stewart
Hannah Arendt’s reflections on the American revolution supply the guiding impulse and intuition for this ambitious interdisciplinary work, which weaves out of the texts of three American writers, who are not usually read alongside one another, an idea of American civil religion that runs counter to...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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2013
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Literature and theology
Year: 2013, Volume: 27, Issue: 2, Pages: 254-256 |
| Review of: | Strange Jeremiahs (Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2010) (Ballan, Joseph)
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| Summary: | Hannah Arendt’s reflections on the American revolution supply the guiding impulse and intuition for this ambitious interdisciplinary work, which weaves out of the texts of three American writers, who are not usually read alongside one another, an idea of American civil religion that runs counter to the predominant strands of civil religion that developed in the wake of the American republic’s founding. Defining civil religion as a mode in which a nation remembers its beginnings (pp. 1, 8–11), Carole Stewart develops Arendt’s suggestion that the revolutionary experience was fed, in part, by the public manifestations of ‘new beginnings’ that constituted what has come to be known as the First Great Awakening, especially in the public dimension of these collective instances of ‘binding’. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Literature and theology
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/litthe/frs046 |