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  1. Postmodern belief
    American literature and religion since 1960
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton ; EBSCO Industries, Inc., Birmingham, AL, USA

    How can intense religious beliefs coexist with pluralism in America today? Examining the role of the religious imagination in contemporary religious practice and in some of the best-known works of American literature from the past fifty years,... more

    Bibliothek der Hochschule Mainz, Untergeschoss
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    How can intense religious beliefs coexist with pluralism in America today? Examining the role of the religious imagination in contemporary religious practice and in some of the best-known works of American literature from the past fifty years, Postmodern Belief shows how belief for its own sake--a belief absent of doctrine--has become an answer to pluralism in a secular age. Amy Hungerford reveals how imaginative literature and religious practices together allow novelists, poets, and critics to express the formal elements of language in transcendent terms, conferring upon words a religious val.

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9781400834914; 1400834910; 0691135088; 9780691135083; 069114575X; 9780691145754
    RVK Categories: HU 1520
    Series: 20/21
    Subjects: Religion; Literatur; Roman; Religion <Motiv>
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 194 pages)
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    Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-186) and index

  2. Postmodern belief
    American literature and religion since 1960
    Published: c2010
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton

    How can intense religious beliefs coexist with pluralism in America today? Examining the role of the religious imagination in contemporary religious practice and in some of the best-known works of American literature from the past fifty years,... more

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    How can intense religious beliefs coexist with pluralism in America today? Examining the role of the religious imagination in contemporary religious practice and in some of the best-known works of American literature from the past fifty years, Postmodern Belief shows how belief for its own sake--a belief absent of doctrine--has become an answer to pluralism in a secular age. Amy Hungerford reveals how imaginative literature and religious practices together allow novelists, poets, and critics to express the formal elements of language in transcendent terms, conferring upon words a religious val

     

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  3. Postmodern belief
    American literature and religion since 1960
    Published: ©2010
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton

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    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden, Hochschulbibliothek, Standort Weiden
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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1400834910; 9781400834914
    RVK Categories: HU 1075 ; HU 1520
    Series: 20/21 (Princeton, N.J.)
    Subjects: 20th century; American literature; History; History and criticism; Religion and literature; United States; Literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; RELIGION / General; American literature; Postmodernism (Literature); Religion and literature; Religion in literature; Geschichte; Literatur; American literature; Religion and literature; Religion in literature; Postmodernism (Literature); Religion <Motiv>; Roman; Literatur; Religion
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xxi, 194 pages)
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-186) and index

    Machine generated contents note - One - Believing in Literature -- - Eisenhower, Salinger, St. Jacques Derrida -- - Two - Supernatural Formalism in the Sixties -- - Ginsberg, Chant, Glossolalia -- - Three - Latin Mass of Language -- - Vatican II, Catholic Media, Don DeLillo -- - Four - Bible and Illiterature -- - Bible Criticism, McCarthy and Morrison, Illiterate Readers -- - Five - Literary Practice of Belief -- - Lived Religion, Marilynne Robinson, Left Behind

    How can intense religious beliefs coexist with pluralism in America today? Examining the role of the religious imagination in contemporary religious practice and in some of the best-known works of American literature from the past fifty years, Postmodern Belief shows how belief for its own sake--a belief absent of doctrine--has become an answer to pluralism in a secular age. Amy Hungerford reveals how imaginative literature and religious practices together allow novelists, poets, and critics to express the formal elements of language in transcendent terms, conferring upon words a religious val