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Author Ziolkowski, Theodore.

Title Modes of faith : secular surrogates for lost religious belief / Theodore Ziolkowski.

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2007]
©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 283 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-272) and index.
Contents Part One: The Decline of Faith -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Melancholy, Long, Withdrawing Roar -- 3. Theologians of the Profane -- Part Two: New Modes of Faith -- 4. The Religion of Art -- 5. Pilgrimages to India -- 6. The God That Failed -- 7. The Hunger for Myth -- 8. The Longing for Utopia -- Part Three: Conclusion -- 9. Renewals of Spirituality.
Summary In the decades surrounding World War I, religious belief receded in the face of radical new ideas such as Marxism, modern science, Nietzschean philosophy, and critical theology. Modes of Faith addresses both this decline of religious belief and the new modes of secular faith that took religion's place in the minds of many writers and poets. Theodore Ziolkowski here examines the motives for this embrace of the secular, locating new modes of faith in art, escapist travel, socialism, politicized myth, and utopian visions. James Joyce, he reveals, turned to art as an escape while Hermann Hesse made.
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Subject Implicit religion -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
Implicit religion.
Europe.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Religion and literature -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
Religion and literature.
Secularism -- Europe -- History -- 20th century.
Secularism.
Secularism in literature.
Secularism in literature.
European literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
European literature.
Europe -- Religion -- 20th century.
Religion.
Chronological Term 1900 - 1999
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Other Form: Print version: Ziolkowski, Theodore. Modes of faith. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2007 0226983633 9780226983639 (DLC) 2006039645 (OCoLC)76937317
ISBN 9780226983660 (electronic book)
0226983668 (electronic book)
0226983633 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780226983639 (cloth ; alkaline paper)