Displacing the Divine : : The Minister in the Mirror of American Fiction / / Douglas Walrath.
As religious leaders, ministers are often assumed to embody the faith of the institution they represent. As cultural symbols, they reflect subtle changes in society and belief-specifically people's perception of God and the evolving role of the church. For more than forty years, Douglas Alan Wa...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2010] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Religion and American Culture
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (400 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction
- Part I. Exposing the Divine: 1790s- 1850s
- i. Faltering Fathers and Devious Divines
- ii. Clerics in Contention
- iii. Vulnerable Divines
- Part II. Discrediting the Divine: 1860s- 1920s
- iv. Compulsives and Accommodators
- v. Con Men in Collars and Heroes of the Cloth
- vi Activist Preachers and Their Detractors
- vii. Champions of the Faith
- viii. Foundering Divines
- ix. Flawed Divines
- Part III. The Legacy: 1930s- 2000s
- x. Fallen Divines
- Conclusion
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index