Religion and Cultural Studies
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A History of God
Alterity
American anthropology
Americans
Anthropologist
Anthropology
Asceticism
Basic Books
Buddhism
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Christian
Christian mission
Christianity
Colonialism
Criticism
Cultural studies
Deity
Emma Goldman
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Ethnic religion
God
Haitian Vodou
Handsome Lake
Harvard University Press
Ideology
Intellectual history
Jacques Derrida
Jews
John Humphrey Noyes
Jonathan Z. Smith
Judaism
Literature
Mama Lola
Modernity
Narrative
Oxford University Press
Paganism
Philosopher
Philosophy
Piety
Politics
Post-structuralism
Postmodernism
Pragmatism
Princeton University Press
Protestantism
Reinhold Niebuhr
Relationship between religion and science
Religion
Religious community
Religious experience
Religious studies
Rhetoric
Routledge
Secularization
Sensibility
Sentimentality
Slavery
Smithsonian Institution
Social Practice
Spirituality
Syncretism
Systems of Consanguinity and Affinity of the Human Family
Testimonial
The Minister's Wooing
The Various
Theology
Theory
Travels (book)
University of California Press
Writing
Yale University Press
Product details
- ISBN 9780691005034
- Weight: 425g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 01 Apr 2001
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Americans have never been more religious than they are now, at the dawn of the twenty-first century. By all reports, attendance rates at traditional places of worship are high and rising; the influx of new immigrant religions has revitalized standard faiths and drawn in those who had strayed from them. Popular television shows like "The Simpsons" feature characters who go to church every Sunday and speak to God; special events, like the 1998 outdoor mass in Worcester, Massachusetts, for a comatose girl believed to have miraculous powers, attract thousands of people. This collection is both part of this ferment and an intellectual reflection upon it. Religion and Cultural Studies features essays by major scholars from the fields of anthropology, history, literary criticism, and religion in order to enrich critical discourse about religion and culture.
Despite the variety of disciplines represented by this group of scholars and the variety of cultures explored in their essays--from fifteenth-century Flemish asceticism and nineteenth-century African-American spiritualism to Russian blood-libel trials and Alien Abduction Reports in the twentieth century--their common ground is the question of religion's place in current American academic analysis, and more broadly in American life today. The volume's range of vocabulary and subject matter is aimed at vitalizing scholarly interest in the field of religion and cultural studies and deepening intellectual inquiry in the contemporary academy. The contributors are Eytan Bercovitch, Karen McCarthy Brown, Gillian Feeley-Harnik, Richard Wightman Fox, Jenny Franchot, Giles Gunn, Geoffrey Galt Harpham, Bruce B. Lawrence, Jack Miles, Susan L. Mizruchi, and Jonathan Z. Smith.
Susan L. Mizruchi is Professor of English and American Studies at Boston University. She is the author of The Power of Historical Knowledge: Narroting the Past in Hawthorne, James, and Dreiser and The Science of Sacrifice: American Literature and Modern Social Theory (both Princeton).
