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Clashing convictions : science and religion in American fiction /
Clashing Convictions: Science and Religion in American Fiction is the first study to identify a body of twentieth-century American fiction that represents the increasing tensions experienced by people of Christian faith in response to Darwinism, the higher biblical criticism, and modern medicine. De...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Columbus :
The Ohio State University Press,
[2016]
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| Colección: | Literature, religion, and postsecular studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : terminology and purpose
- Part 1. Internal states of belief and unbelief. Emergent formations of the science-religion binary : Sara Orne Jewett's 'A country doctor, ' Edward Eggleston's 'The faith doctor, ' Milton Scott's 'Henry Elwood, ' and Henry Adams's 'Esther'
- The new biblical criticism and Darwinism : Harold Frederic's 'The damnation of Theron Ware'
- An American response to Darwinism : James Lane Allen's 'The reign of law'
- An enlightenment critique of religious mania : W.D. Howells's 'The Leatherwood God'
- Part 2. Secularism resurgent. A research scientist's religion : Sinclair Lewis's 'Arrowsmith'
- Satirizing fundamentalist education and revivalist preachers : Sinclair Lewis's 'Elmer Gantry'
- Transhistorical parable : Jerome Lawrence and Robert E. Lee's 'Inherit the wind'
- Part 3. A postsecular age? Contemporary perspectives : James Scott Bell's 'The Darwin conspiracy' and the soul of America.