| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 375 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Religions of the Americas series
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Religions of the Americas series.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 349-362) and index. |
| Contents |
The beginning of the American Revolution in the conversion of Northampton. The travail of the Puritan covenant -- Original sin: human limitations and the openness of community -- God is no respecter of persons: the ordinary, lowly, and infantile nature of the revival -- The "strange revolution" and the aesthetics of grace -- The second great awakening, the national period, and Melville's American destiny. Pierre; or, The Ambiguities and the formation of the American dilemma -- A revolutionary marriage deferred -- The mystery of Melville's darkwoman -- From "self" to "soul": W.E.B. Du Bois's critical understanding of the ideals of liberal democracy in the new world. Strange Jeremiah: civil religion and the public intellectual -- Strivings and original sin: the unlovely, plural American soul -- The talented tenth and colonizing heroes -- Du Bois's aesthetic of beauty in the new world -- The irony of the American self. |
| Summary |
Stewart studies the writings of three American authors who all helped define civil religion through their expressions of the tradition of the jeremiad, or prophetic judgment of a people for backsliding from their destiny. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891. |
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Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963 -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Edwards, Jonathan, 1703-1758 -- Criticism and interpretation. |
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Melville, Herman, 1819-1891 -- Criticism and interpretation. |
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Du Bois, W. E. B. (William Edward Burghardt), 1868-1963. |
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Du Bois, W. E. B., 1868-1963 (Du Bois, William Edward Burghardt) -- Criticism and interpretation. |
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Civil religion -- United States -- History.
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Civil religion. |
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United States. |
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History. |
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United States -- History.
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United States -- Politics and government.
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Politics and government. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Stewart, Carole Lynn. Strange Jeremiahs. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 2010 (DLC) 2010001795 |
| ISBN |
9780826346810 (electronic book) |
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0826346812 (electronic book) |
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1283636948 |
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9781283636940 |
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661394940X |
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9786613949400 |
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9780826346797 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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0826346790 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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