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American Jeremiad
American literary criticism
American Literary History
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Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Basic Philosophical Writings
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Crane's Story
Crane’s Story
cultural hermeneutics
Den Begriff Der Geschichte
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Early American Literature
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Halachic Judaism
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Jewish American Literature
Jonathan Arac
Kafka's Parable
Kafka’s Parable
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literary
literature
Miss Lonelyhearts
Nathanael West
Nuyorican Poets
Pietro Di Donato's Christ
Pietro Di Donato’s Christ
Poor White Trash
Praise Famous Men
Puritan rhetoric
religious discourse in US literature
religious symbolism
rites
ritual analysis
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Sacvan Bercovitch
Scarlet Letter
Sholem Aleichem
Snow Man
typology studies
University Of Wisconsin
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781409430186
- Weight: 453g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 17 Nov 2011
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Playing on the frequently used metaphors of the 'turn toward' or 'turn back' in scholarship on religion, The Turn Around Religion in America offers a model of religion that moves in a reciprocal relationship between these two poles. In particular, this volume dedicates itself to a reading of religion and of religious meaning that cannot be reduced to history or ideology on the one hand or to truth or spirit on the other, but is rather the product of the constant play between the historical particulars that manifest beliefs and the beliefs that take shape through them. Taking as their point of departure the foundational scholarship of Sacvan Bercovitch, the contributors locate the universal in the ongoing and particularized attempts of American authors from the seventeenth century forward to get it - whatever that 'it' might be - right. Examining authors as diverse as Pietro di Donato, Herman Melville, Miguel Algarin, Edward Taylor, Mark Twain, Robert Keayne, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Paule Marshall, Stephen Crane, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Joseph B. Soloveitchik, among many others-and a host of genres, from novels and poetry to sermons, philosophy, history, journalism, photography, theater, and cinema-the essays call for a discussion of religion's powers that does not seek to explain them as much as put them into conversation with each other. Central to this project is Bercovitch's emphasis on the rhetoric, ritual, typology, and symbology of religion and his recognition that with each aesthetic enactment of religion's power, we learn something new.
Nan Goodman is Associate Professor of English at the University of Colorado at Boulder, USA, and Michael P. Kramer is Professor Haver in the Department of English at Bar-Ilan University, Israel.
