E-book
Displacing the divine the minister in the mirror of American fiction
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- ISBN: 0231151063
- ISBN: 9780231151061
- ISBN: 0231521804 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 9780231521802 (electronic bk.)
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xvi, 379 pages).
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electronic resource - Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, ©2010.
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| General Note: | CatBulkString:jan.03.13 CatMonthString:jan.13 Multi-User. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 353-370) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | 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. Inept contenders ; Anachronisms -- Flawed divines : radical images. 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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| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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