Displacing the divine : the minister in the mirror of American fiction / / Douglas Alan Walrath.
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| Superior document: | Religion and American culture |
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| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Religion and American culture (New York, N.Y.)
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| Physical Description: | xvi, 379 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.