Displacing the divine [electronic resource] : the minister in the mirror of American fiction / Douglas Alan Walrath.
By: Walrath, Douglas Alan.
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BookSeries: Religion and American culture (New York, N.Y.): Publisher: New York : Columbia University Press, c2010Description: xvi, 379 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): American fiction -- History and criticism | Clergy in literature | Christianity and literature -- United States -- HistoryGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 813/.00935823 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-370) and index.
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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