Displacing the divine: the minister in the mirror of american fiction

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...

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1. VerfasserIn: Walrath, Douglas Alan 1933- (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: New York, NY [u.a.] Columbia University Press 2010
In:Jahr: 2010
Schriftenreihe/Zeitschrift:Religion and American culture
normierte Schlagwort(-folgen):B USA / Roman / Geistlicher (Motiv) / Geschichte 1790-2010
weitere Schlagwörter:B American fiction History and criticism
B Christianity and literature (United States) History
B Clergy in literature
B American fiction History and criticism
B Christianity and literature United States History
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Zusammenfassung: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 (1). Inept contenders ; Anachronisms -- Flawed divines : radical images (2). 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
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. [353]-370) and index
ISBN:0231151063