LEADER 03046nam 2200601 a 450 001 9910781736203321 005 20230725051450.0 010 $a1-283-63694-8 010 $a0-8263-4681-2 035 $a(CKB)2550000000050854 035 $a(EBL)1119016 035 $a(OCoLC)817819466 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000541603 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11367200 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000541603 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10498843 035 $a(PQKB)10879913 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1119016 035 $a(OCoLC)759158379 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse4770 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1119016 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10492353 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL394940 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000050854 100 $a20100126d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aStrange Jeremiahs$b[electronic resource] $ecivil religion and the literary imaginations of Jonathan Edwards, Herman Melville, and W.E.B. Du Bois /$fCarole Lynn Stewart 210 $aAlbuquerque $cUniversity of New Mexico Press$d2010 215 $a1 online resource (392 p.) 225 1 $aReligions of the Americas series 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8263-4679-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 349-362) and index. 327 $aThe beginning of the American Revolution in the conversion of Northampton. The travail of the Puritan covenant -- Original sin: human limitations and the openness of community -- God is no respecter of persons: the ordinary, lowly, and infantile nature of the revival -- The "strange revolution" and the aesthetics of grace -- The second great awakening, the national period, and Melville's American destiny. Pierre; or, The Ambiguities and the formation of the American dilemma -- A revolutionary marriage deferred -- The mystery of Melville's darkwoman -- From "self" to "soul": W.E.B. Du Bois's critical understanding of the ideals of liberal democracy in the new world. Strange Jeremiah: civil religion and the public intellectual -- Strivings and original sin: the unlovely, plural American soul -- The talented tenth and colonizing heroes -- Du Bois's aesthetic of beauty in the new world -- The irony of the American self. 330 $aStewart studies the writings of three American authors who all helped define civil religion through their expressions of the tradition of the jeremiad, or prophetic judgment of a people for backsliding from their destiny. 410 0$aReligions of the Americas series. 606 $aCivil religion$zUnited States$xHistory 607 $aUnited States$xHistory 607 $aUnited States$xPolitics and government 615 0$aCivil religion$xHistory. 676 $a202/.3 700 $aStewart$b Carole Lynn$01521024 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781736203321 996 $aStrange Jeremiahs$93759889 997 $aUNINA