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The Turn Around Religion in America - Literature, Culture, and the Work of Sacvan Bercovitch (Paperback)
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Playing on the frequently used metaphors of the 'turn toward' or
'turn back' in scholarship on religion, The Turn Around Religion in
America offers a model of religion that moves in a reciprocal
relationship between these two poles. In particular, this volume
dedicates itself to a reading of religion and of religious meaning
that cannot be reduced to history or ideology on the one hand or to
truth or spirit on the other, but is rather the product of the
constant play between the historical particulars that manifest
beliefs and the beliefs that take shape through them. Taking as
their point of departure the foundational scholarship of Sacvan
Bercovitch, the contributors locate the universal in the ongoing
and particularized attempts of American authors from the
seventeenth century forward to get it - whatever that 'it' might be
- right. Examining authors as diverse as Pietro di Donato, Herman
Melville, Miguel Algarin, Edward Taylor, Mark Twain, Robert Keayne,
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Paule Marshall, Stephen Crane, Ralph Waldo
Emerson, and Joseph B. Soloveitchik, among many others-and a host
of genres, from novels and poetry to sermons, philosophy, history,
journalism, photography, theater, and cinema-the essays call for a
discussion of religion's powers that does not seek to explain them
as much as put them into conversation with each other. Central to
this project is Bercovitch's emphasis on the rhetoric, ritual,
typology, and symbology of religion and his recognition that with
each aesthetic enactment of religion's power, we learn something
new.
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