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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454271503321

Autore

Ziolkowski Theodore

Titolo

Modes of faith [[electronic resource] ] : secular surrogates for lost religious belief / / Theodore Ziolkowski

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007

ISBN

1-281-96690-8

9786611966904

0-226-98366-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (296 p.)

Disciplina

306.6

Soggetti

Implicit religion - Europe - History - 20th century

Religion and literature - Europe - History - 20th century

Secularism - Europe - History - 20th century

Secularism in literature

European literature - 20th century - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Europe Religion 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-272) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Melancholy, Long, Withdrawing Roar -- 3. Theologians of the Profane -- 4. The Religion of Art -- 5. Pilgrimages to India -- 6. The God That Failed -- 7. The Hunger for Myth -- 8. The Longing for Utopia -- 9. Renewals of Spirituality -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In the decades surrounding World War I, religious belief receded in the face of radical new ideas such as Marxism, modern science, Nietzschean philosophy, and critical theology. Modes of Faith addresses both this decline of religious belief and the new modes of secular faith that took religion's place in the minds of many writers and poets.Theodore Ziolkowski here examines the motives for this embrace of the secular, locating new modes of faith in art, escapist travel, socialism, politicized myth, and utopian visions. James Joyce, he reveals, turned to art as an esc