LEADER 03097nam 2200709 a 450 001 9910781741303321 005 20230725051159.0 010 $a0-8264-3937-3 010 $a1-283-27432-9 010 $a9786613274328 010 $a1-4411-4275-4 035 $a(CKB)2550000000048675 035 $a(EBL)773207 035 $a(OCoLC)754582257 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000971418 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11595566 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000971418 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10930319 035 $a(PQKB)10629552 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000668380 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12293959 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000668380 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10698724 035 $a(PQKB)11108435 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC773207 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL773207 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10497642 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL327432 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000048675 100 $a20111029d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEngland's secular scripture$b[electronic resource] $eIslamophobia and the Protestant aesthetic /$fJo Carruthers 210 $aLondon $cContinuum$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (161 p.) 225 1 $aNew directions in religion and literature 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8264-3321-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; SERIES EDITORS' PREFACE; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE THE ENGLISH REFORMATION AND THE PROTESTANT AESTHETIC; CHAPTER TWO SECULARIZING THE PROTESTANT AESTHETIC; CHAPTER THREE CONTEMPORARY ENGLISHNESS AND THE PROTESTANT AESTHETIC; CHAPTER FOUR THE PROTESTANT AESTHETIC AND ISLAMOPHOBIA; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX 330 $aEngland's Secular Scripture seeks to trace English Islamophobia to its roots in England's Protestant past, and more specifically to its aesthetic and literary rooting in Protestant values. Carruthers argues that English antagonism towards Islam lies in part in the formation of English identities in early modern Reformation Protestantism. The book traces the transposing, and secularizing, of Reformation doctrines into a 'Protestant aesthetic'; of simplicity, individualism, and rationalism in the literature of Spenser and Milton. Wordsworth, Hardy, Eliot and Orwell, among others, perpetuate this 410 0$aNew directions in religion and literature. 606 $aReligion and literature$zEngland 606 $aReligion and culture$zEngland 606 $aProtestantism$zEngland 606 $aIslamophobia$zEngland 615 0$aReligion and literature 615 0$aReligion and culture 615 0$aProtestantism 615 0$aIslamophobia 676 $a820.9382 700 $aCarruthers$b Jo$0886369 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910781741303321 996 $aEngland's secular scripture$93814321 997 $aUNINA