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God-Fearing and Free : A Spiritual History of America's Cold War.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2010Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (449 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674058842
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: God-Fearing and FreeDDC classification:
  • 277.3082
LOC classification:
  • BR526
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Prologue -- Introduction: Going beyond Modernism from World War I to the Cold War -- Part One: How a Theologian Served the Opinion Elite, and How an Evangelist Startled Them -- 1. Christianity, Reason, and the National Character -- 2. Origins of an Ailing Polemic -- Part Two: Narratives of Blindness and Insight in an Era of Confession -- 3. Guilt of the Thirties, Penitence of the Fifties -- 4. McCarthyism through Sentimental Melodrama and Film Noir -- Part Three: Cold War Cultural Politics and the Varieties of Religious Experience -- 5. The Mass Culture Critique's Implications for American Religion -- 6. Jeremiads on the American Arcade and Its Consumption Ethic -- Part Four: Versions of Inwardness in Cold War Psychology and the Neo-Gothic -- 7. Controversies over Therapeutic Religion -- 8. Locating the Enigma of Shirley Jackson -- Part Five: The Styles of Prophecy -- 9. Voices of Reform, Radicalism, and Conservative Dissent -- 10. James Baldwin and the Wages of Innocence -- Epilogue: Putting an End to Ending Our Innocence -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- Prologue -- Introduction: Going beyond Modernism from World War I to the Cold War -- Part One: How a Theologian Served the Opinion Elite, and How an Evangelist Startled Them -- 1. Christianity, Reason, and the National Character -- 2. Origins of an Ailing Polemic -- Part Two: Narratives of Blindness and Insight in an Era of Confession -- 3. Guilt of the Thirties, Penitence of the Fifties -- 4. McCarthyism through Sentimental Melodrama and Film Noir -- Part Three: Cold War Cultural Politics and the Varieties of Religious Experience -- 5. The Mass Culture Critique's Implications for American Religion -- 6. Jeremiads on the American Arcade and Its Consumption Ethic -- Part Four: Versions of Inwardness in Cold War Psychology and the Neo-Gothic -- 7. Controversies over Therapeutic Religion -- 8. Locating the Enigma of Shirley Jackson -- Part Five: The Styles of Prophecy -- 9. Voices of Reform, Radicalism, and Conservative Dissent -- 10. James Baldwin and the Wages of Innocence -- Epilogue: Putting an End to Ending Our Innocence -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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