Displacing the divine [[electronic resource] ] : the minister in the mirror of American fiction / / Douglas Alan Walrath |
Autore | Walrath Douglas Alan <1933-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Columbia University Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (329 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.00935823 |
Collana | Religion and American culture |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - History and criticism
Clergy in literature Christianity and literature - United States - History |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
ISBN |
1-282-79662-3
9786612796623 0-231-52180-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: Fiction as a mirror of culture -- Exposing the divine : 1790s-1850s -- Faltering fathers and devious divines : popular images. Misfits in America ; Harsh Puritans and fanatical Calvinists ; Scoundrels in collars -- Clerics in contention : church images. Liberal challengers ; Faithful Calvinists ; Precarious pastors -- Vulnerable divines : radical images. Victims of their believing ; Perpetrators of oppression ; Exposing the divine -- Discrediting the divine : 1860s-1920s -- Compulsives and accommodators : popular images (1). Compelled believers ; Compulsive believers ; Accommodating believers ; Prudent believers -- Con men in collars and heroes of the cloth : popular images (2). Phony preachers ; Muscular ministers ; Gallant parsons -- Activist preachers and their detractors : popular images (3). Social ministers ; Entrenched reactionaries ; Social activists ; Utopian idealists -- Champions of the faith : church images. Muscular believers ; Social evangelicals -- Foundering divines : radical images. Inept contenders ; Anachronisms -- Flawed divines : radical images. Weak and impotent men ; Pretenders, deceivers, and commercial preachers -- The legacy : 1930s-2000s -- Fallen divines : some contemporary images. Deprived preachers : a radical image ; Comic Calvinists : a popular and church image ; Human divines : a popular image -- Conclusion: The legacy of the displaced divine. The displacing : a summary ; The legacy. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910458698503321 |
Walrath Douglas Alan <1933-> | ||
New York, : Columbia University Press, c2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Displacing the divine [[electronic resource] ] : the minister in the mirror of American fiction / / Douglas Alan Walrath |
Autore | Walrath Douglas Alan <1933-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Columbia University Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (329 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.00935823 |
Collana | Religion and American culture |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - History and criticism
Clergy in literature Christianity and literature - United States - History |
ISBN |
1-282-79662-3
9786612796623 0-231-52180-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: Fiction as a mirror of culture -- Exposing the divine : 1790s-1850s -- Faltering fathers and devious divines : popular images. Misfits in America ; Harsh Puritans and fanatical Calvinists ; Scoundrels in collars -- Clerics in contention : church images. Liberal challengers ; Faithful Calvinists ; Precarious pastors -- Vulnerable divines : radical images. Victims of their believing ; Perpetrators of oppression ; Exposing the divine -- Discrediting the divine : 1860s-1920s -- Compulsives and accommodators : popular images (1). Compelled believers ; Compulsive believers ; Accommodating believers ; Prudent believers -- Con men in collars and heroes of the cloth : popular images (2). Phony preachers ; Muscular ministers ; Gallant parsons -- Activist preachers and their detractors : popular images (3). Social ministers ; Entrenched reactionaries ; Social activists ; Utopian idealists -- Champions of the faith : church images. Muscular believers ; Social evangelicals -- Foundering divines : radical images. Inept contenders ; Anachronisms -- Flawed divines : radical images. Weak and impotent men ; Pretenders, deceivers, and commercial preachers -- The legacy : 1930s-2000s -- Fallen divines : some contemporary images. Deprived preachers : a radical image ; Comic Calvinists : a popular and church image ; Human divines : a popular image -- Conclusion: The legacy of the displaced divine. The displacing : a summary ; The legacy. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910791592303321 |
Walrath Douglas Alan <1933-> | ||
New York, : Columbia University Press, c2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
|
Displacing the divine [[electronic resource] ] : the minister in the mirror of American fiction / / Douglas Alan Walrath |
Autore | Walrath Douglas Alan <1933-> |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : Columbia University Press, c2010 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (329 p.) |
Disciplina | 813/.00935823 |
Collana | Religion and American culture |
Soggetto topico |
American fiction - History and criticism
Clergy in literature Christianity and literature - United States - History |
ISBN |
1-282-79662-3
9786612796623 0-231-52180-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: Fiction as a mirror of culture -- Exposing the divine : 1790s-1850s -- Faltering fathers and devious divines : popular images. Misfits in America ; Harsh Puritans and fanatical Calvinists ; Scoundrels in collars -- Clerics in contention : church images. Liberal challengers ; Faithful Calvinists ; Precarious pastors -- Vulnerable divines : radical images. Victims of their believing ; Perpetrators of oppression ; Exposing the divine -- Discrediting the divine : 1860s-1920s -- Compulsives and accommodators : popular images (1). Compelled believers ; Compulsive believers ; Accommodating believers ; Prudent believers -- Con men in collars and heroes of the cloth : popular images (2). Phony preachers ; Muscular ministers ; Gallant parsons -- Activist preachers and their detractors : popular images (3). Social ministers ; Entrenched reactionaries ; Social activists ; Utopian idealists -- Champions of the faith : church images. Muscular believers ; Social evangelicals -- Foundering divines : radical images. Inept contenders ; Anachronisms -- Flawed divines : radical images. Weak and impotent men ; Pretenders, deceivers, and commercial preachers -- The legacy : 1930s-2000s -- Fallen divines : some contemporary images. Deprived preachers : a radical image ; Comic Calvinists : a popular and church image ; Human divines : a popular image -- Conclusion: The legacy of the displaced divine. The displacing : a summary ; The legacy. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910823557203321 |
Walrath Douglas Alan <1933-> | ||
New York, : Columbia University Press, c2010 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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