Culture and redemption : religion, the secular, and American literature /
Many Americans wish to believe that the United States, founded in religious tolerance, has gradually and naturally established a secular public sphere that is equally tolerant of all religions--or none. Culture and Redemption suggests otherwise. Tracy Fessenden contends that the uneven separation of...
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| Médium: | Licensed eBooks |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
[2007]
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| On-line přístup: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7sdhr |
Obsah:
- Protestantism and the social space of reading. Legible dominion : Puritanism's new world narrative ; Protestant expansion, Indian violence, and childhood death : the New England primer ; From disestablishment to consensus : the nineteenth-century Bible wars and the limits of dissent ; Conversion to democracy : religion and the American Renaissance
- Secular fictions. From Romanticism to race : Uncle Tom's cabin ; Mark Twain and the ambivalent refuge of unbelief ; Secularism, feminism, imperialism : Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the progress narrative of U.S. feminism ; F. Scott Fitzgerald's Catholic closet
- Afterword. American religion and the future of dissent.