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American culture of despair : the sacred, secularity, and the test of time /

Recent developments have made many social scientists and commentators wonder whether the United States is still a relatively modern, secular, and democratic society. Instead, America shows signs of the cultural despair that preceded the rise of fascism in Nazi Germany. Taking a careful look at such...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fenn, Richard K. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Foreword: Imagining the sacred -- The culture of American despair -- Critical moments and the call for authoritarian leadership -- In modern America, is sacred memory a thing of the past? -- American despair and the longing for sovereignty -- Cultural despair and the loss of the future -- The American dilemma: monarchy in the Whitehouse -- The American dilemma -- Sanctifying the critical moment -- Secularization and finality -- What now? 
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