Figures in the carpet : finding the human person in the American past / edited by Wilfred M. McClay.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

McClay, Wilfred M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Theological anthropology--Christianity.

Theological anthropology.

United States--History.

United States.

History.

Physical Description:

x, 506 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Grand Rapids, Mich. : William B. Eerdmans Pub., 2007.

Summary:

"What does it mean to be a human person?" This volume is a historical inquiry into that foundational, deceptively simple question. Viewing the human person from various perspectives -- law, education, business, media, religion, medicine, community life, gender, art -- sixteen historians of American life explore how our understanding of personhood has changed over time and how that changing understanding has significantly affected our ideas about morality and human rights, our conversations about public policy, and our American culture as a whole.

Contributors: Margaret Bendroth Allan Carlson Thomas R. Cole Daniel Walker Howe Richard H. King Michael J. Lacey Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn George M. Marsden Eugene McCarraher Wilfred M. McClay John T. McGreevy Eric Miller Sally M. Promey Charles J. Reid Jr. Christine Rosen Christopher Shannon Daniel Wickberg

Contents:

Human depravity : a neglected explanatory category / George M. Marsden

Losing and finding the modern self : neglected resources from the golden age of American pragmatism / Michael J. Lacey

Mirror images : framing the self in early New England material piety / Sally M. Promey

The sympathetic self in American culture, 1750-1920 / Daniel Wickberg

The disenchantment of women : gender and religion at the turn of the century (1865-1930) / Margaret Bendroth

Me, myself, and Inc. : "social selfhood," corporate humanism, and religious longing in American management theory, 1908-1956 / Eugene McCarraher

A stranger's dream : the virtual self and the socialization crisis / Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn

The uses of faith after Rieff : a personal response to The triumph of the therapeutic / Thomas R. Cole

Wendell Berry and the agrarian recovery of the human person / Allan Carlson

The politics of suffering : Ivan Illich's critique of modern medicine / Christopher Shannon

Pilgrim to an unknown land : Christopher Lasch's journey / Eric Miller

Religion and education in the young republic / Daniel Walker Howe

Catholicism and abolition : a historical (and theological) problem / John T. McGreevy

The disposal of the dead : and what it tells us about American society and law / Charles J. Reid, Jr.

Putting asunder : changing perceptions of marriage and personhood in the early-twentieth-century United States / Christine Rosen

"What kind of people are we?" : the United States and the truth and reconciliation idea / Richard H. King.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0802863116

9780802863119

OCLC:

71312747

Publisher Number:

99939680432