Culture and redemption [Elektronisk resurs] religion, the secular, and American literature / Tracy Fessenden.

• COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART ONE: PROTESTANTISM AND THE SOCIAL SPACE OF READING; CHAPTER ONE: LEGIBLE DOMINION: PURITANISM'S NEW WORLD NARRATIVE; CHAPTER TWO: PROTESTANT EXPANSION, INDIAN VIOLENCE, AND CHILDHOOD DEATH: THE NEW ENGLAND PRIMER; CHAPTER THREE: FROM DISESTABLISHMENT TO "CONSENSUS": THE NINETEENTH-CENTURY BIBLE WARS AND THE LIMITS OF DISSENT; CHAPTER FOUR: CONVERSION TO DEMOCRACY: RELIGION AND THE AMERICAN RENAISSANCE; PART TWO: SECULAR FICTIONS; CHAPTER FIVE: FROM ROMANISM TO RACE: UNCLE TOM'S CABIN. 
• CHAPTER SIX: MARK TWAIN AND THE AMBIVALENT REFUGE OF UNBELIEFCHAPTER SEVEN: SECULARISM, FEMINISM, IMPERIALISM: CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN AND THE PROGRESS NARRATIVE OF U.S. FEMINISM; CHAPTER EIGHT: F. SCOTT FITZGERALD'S CATHOLIC CLOSET; AFTERWORD: AMERICAN RELIGION AND THE FUTURE OF DISSENT; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX. 

• Many Americans wish to believe that the United States, founded in religious tolerance, has gradually and naturally established a secular public sphere that is equally tolerant of all religions--or none. Culture and Redemption suggests otherwise. Tracy Fessenden contends that the uneven separation of church and state in America, far from safeguarding an arena for democratic flourishing, has functioned instead to promote particular forms of religious possibility while containing, suppressing, or excluding others. At a moment when questions about the appropriate role of religion in public life h 

Ämnesord

Kyrkohistoria  (sao)

Amerikansk litteratur  -- historia (sao)

Secularism  -- United States. (LCSH)

Christianity and culture  -- United States. (LCSH)

American literature  -- History and criticism. (LCSH)

Religion and literature  -- United States. (LCSH)

Sekularism  -- historia (sao)

Kristendom och kultur  -- historia (sao)

Religion och litteratur  -- historia (sao)

Church history  (LCSH)

Förenta staterna  (sao)

United States  -- Church history. (LCSH)

Genre

Electronic books.  (LCSH)

Klassifikation

BR526 .F48 2008 (LCC)

201.681 (DDC)

Cm.08 (kssb/8 (machine generated))