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



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Autore: Ziolkowski Theodore Visualizza persona
Titolo: Modes of faith [[electronic resource] ] : secular surrogates for lost religious belief / / Theodore Ziolkowski Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (296 p.)
Disciplina: 306.6
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto geografico: Europe Religion 20th century
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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
Titolo autorizzato: Modes of faith  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-281-96690-8
9786611966904
0-226-98366-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910454271503321
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