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Culture and Redemption : Religion, the Secular, and American Literature /
Many Americans wish to believe that the United States, founded in religious tolerance, has gradually and naturally established a secular public sphere that is equally tolerant of all religions--or none. Culture and Redemption suggests otherwise. Tracy Fessenden contends that the uneven separation of...
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
2007.
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- Protestantism and the social space of reading. Legible dominion: Puritanism's new world narrative ; Protestant expansion, Indian violence, and childhood death: the New England primer ; From disestablishment to consensus: the nineteenth-century Bible wars and the limits of dissent ; Conversion to democracy: religion and the American Renaissance
- Secular fictions. From Romanticism to race: Uncle Tom's cabin ; Mark Twain and the ambivalent refuge of unbelief ; Secularism, feminism, imperialism: Charlotte Perkins Gilman and the progress narrative of U.S. feminism ; F. Scott Fitzgerald's Catholic closet
- Afterword: American religion and the future of dissent.