God-fearing and free: a spiritual history of America's Cold War
Jason W. Stevens
God-fearing and free: a spiritual history of America's Cold War
نویسنده
Jason W. Stevensنسخه 1
فهرست
شناسنامه
عنوان و نام پدیدآور
God-fearing and free: a spiritual history of America's Cold War / Jason W. Stevensمشخصات نشر
کمبریج : Harvard University Press، 2010ممشخصات ظاهری
xiii, 434 p.; 25 cm.موضوع
Cold War Religious aspects ChristianityChristianity and politics -- United States --20th century History
United States Church history -- 20th century
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انگلیسییادداشت
Includes bibliographical references and index.مندرجات
Introduction: Going beyond modernism from World War I to the Cold War -- Pt. 1. How a theologican served the opinion elite, and how an evangelist startled them. Christianity, reason, and the national character -- Origins of an ailing polemic -- Pt. 2. Narratives of blindness and insight in an era of confession. Guilt of the thirties, penitence of the fifties -- McCarthyism through sentimental melodrama and film noir -- Pt. 3. Cold War cultural politics and the varieties of religious experience. The mass culture critique's implications for American religion -- Jeremiads on the American arcade and its consumption ethic -- Pt. 4. Versions of inwardness in Cold War psychology and the neo -- Gothic. Controversies over therapeutic religion -- Locating the enigma of Shirley Jackson -- Pt. 5. The styles of prophecy. Voices of reform, radicalism, and conservative dissent -- James Baldwin and the wages of innocence -- Epilogue: Putting an end to ending our innocence