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The Word and its witness : the spiritualization of American realism / Gregory S. Jackson.
Van Pelt Library PS169.R43 J33 2009
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Jackson, Gregory S.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- Realism in literature.
- Religious literature--History and criticism.
- Religious literature.
- Religion and culture--History.
- Religion and culture.
- Popular culture--Religious aspects.
- Popular culture.
- Social gospel in literature.
- Religion in literature.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 409 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2009.
- Summary:
- In this groundbreaking study, Gregory S. Jackson explores the history of evangelical culture that began during the Great Awakening, revealing its profound impact on the development of media in America. With remarkable scope and insights into the interplay between religion, secularism, and politics, The Word and Its Witness will transform the way we understand American realism and American religion.
- Contents:
- Introduction Spiritual Realism and the Work of Homiletic Narrative 1
- Homiletic Realism and the Forms of Fiction 6
- Babes in Christ 14
- Homiletic Patterns 22
- Visualizing the Word 26
- American Homiletic Realism 31
- Chapter 1 Hell's Plot: The Hermeneutic of Fear 37
- Hell on Earth: The Seventeenth Century 43
- The Return of Volition 47
- Eighteenth-Century Puritan Medievalism 53
- Lockean Epistemology: Homiletic Realism as Inoculation Theology 56
- Children's Spiritual Aptitude 61
- Sensational Savagery 70
- The Word Made Flesh: Personalizing Hell 75
- Chapter 2 Personalizing Progress: Spiritual Masterplots and Templates of Redemption 89
- Interested Reading: The Christian Pattern 94
- Everyman's Spiritual Biography: The Pilgrim's Progress 104
- Journeying to Jerusalem: Pilgrimages Old and New 116
- Homiletic Fiction and the Novelization of Progress 125
- Narrative Incrementalism 133
- Bifurcated Time 143
- The Novelization of Christian Duty 151
- Chapter 3 "What Would Jesus Do?" Practical Christianity, Social Gospel Realism, and the Homiletic Novel 157
- Homiletic Experiences 165
- Who Was Jesus? 173
- Homiletic Audiences 189
- Enacting Allegory 201
- Chapter 4 Cultivating Spiritual Sight: Jacob Riis's Virtual-Tour Narrative and the Visual Modernization of Protestant Homiletics 215
- Homiletic Theory in Social Gospel Reform 222
- Homiletic Allegory and the Architectural Frame 231
- The Interactive Text 249
- The Timeless Flash of Light: The Spiritual Realism of Photography 257.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [363]-390) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226390031
- 9780226390048
- 0226390039
- 0226390047
- OCLC:
- 225875984
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