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The Religious Critic in American Culture
Engelsk
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Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
256
ISBN-13:
9780791421147
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0791421147
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Udg. Dato:
24 aug 1994
Størrelse i cm:
Oplagsdato:
24 aug 1994
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The Religious Critic in American Culture

Engelsk
Paperback 1994
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This book provides a new rationale for "religious criticism" in American society. First, Dean shows why today''s academic intellectuals are relatively indifferent to questions of meaning in America, pointing to the loss of American "exceptionalism," the professionalization of the academy, and the rise of post-structural criticism. He then shows how intellectuals may reclaim a prophetic role by offering a new theory of the nature of religious thought. Tracing this theory to a twentieth-century emphasis on conventions, Dean provides a way to understand how imaginative social constructions can become active historical conventions, with real historical force. He suggests that the sacred itself begins as an imaginative construct and becomes a convention, thus working as an active, "living" force in history. Finally, Dean argues that religious critics must now reclaim a responsibility for shaping their society''s sacred conventions.

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Specifikationer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
256
ISBN-13:
9780791421147
Indbinding:
Paperback
ISBN-10:
0791421147
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
24 aug 1994
Størrelse i cm:
Oplagsdato:
24 aug 1994
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