LEADER 03264nam 2200793 a 450 001 9910974440303321 005 20240514033656.0 010 $a9786613274328 010 $a9780826439376 010 $a0826439373 010 $a9781283274326 010 $a1283274329 010 $a9781441142757 010 $a1441142754 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(Perlego)1357168 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 $eIslamophobia and the Protestant aesthetic /$fJo Carruthers 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aLondon $cContinuum$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (161 p.) 225 1 $aNew directions in religion and literature 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 08$a9780826433213 311 08$a0826433219 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 676 $a305.6970941 700 $aCarruthers$b Jo$0886369 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910974440303321 996 $aEngland's secular scripture$94357321 997 $aUNINA