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The New Measures - A Theological History of Democratic Practice (Paperback)
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The New Measures - A Theological History of Democratic Practice (Paperback)
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The New Measures: A Theological History of Democratic Practice
brings thick cultural history to contemporary debates about
religion and democracy. Combining histories of performance, space,
institutions, and ideas, this 2007 book tells the story of the 'new
measures' that circulated in the religious revivals of the 1820s
and '30s and traces the role of these practices in the development
of democratic culture in the United States. The book borrows
resources from Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno to remember the
new measures from an eschatological point of view. That
eschatological perspective holds together close empirical studies
and explicitly theological hopes. The book's attention to detail
moves it beyond abstraction and caricature to a more materialist
political theology. And its eschatological hope resists narratives
of progress and decline to understand American democracy as both
tangled in contradiction and caught up in redemption.
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