Displacing the divine: the minister in the mirror of american fiction
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...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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New York, NY [u.a.]
Columbia University Press
2010
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| In: | Year: 2010 |
| Series/Journal: | Religion and American culture
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
USA
/ Novel
/ Clergyperson (Motif)
/ History 1790-2010
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| Further subjects: | B
American fiction History and criticism
B Christianity and literature (United States) History B Clergy in literature B American fiction History and criticism B Christianity and literature United States History |
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Table of Contents |
| Summary: | 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 (1). Inept contenders ; Anachronisms -- Flawed divines : radical images (2). 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 |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-370) and index |
| Physical Description: | XVI, 379 S., Ill., 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 978-0-231-15106-1 0-231-15106-3 978-0-231-52180-2 0-231-52180-4 |
