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

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910782737503321
• Autore: Ziolkowski Theodore
• 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; 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