Strange Jeremiahs: Civil Religion and the Literary Imaginations of Jonathan Edwards, Herman Melville, and W. E. B. Du Bois

by Carole Lynn Stewart

Over the last few decades the notion of civil religion has gained parlance as a way of making sense of American culture and religion. The term civil religion , often used simply to mean patriotism, refers in this text to the religious styles and rhetoric that emerge from the act of founding of the American Republic as a democratic nation. The author examines the work of three major American authors whose lives span 250 years and who, in spite of their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826346790
• ISBN13: 9780826346797
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
• Length: 390 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.1"