Modes of faith : secular surrogates for lost religious belief / Theodore Ziolkowski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ziolkowski, Theodore.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Implicit religion--Europe--History--20th century.

Implicit religion.

Religion and literature--Europe--History--20th century.

Religion and literature.

Secularism--Europe--History--20th century.

Secularism.

Secularism in literature.

European literature--20th century--History and criticism.

European literature.

Europe--Religion--20th century.

Europe.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 p.)

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In the decades surrounding World War I, religious belief receded in the face of radical new ideas such as Marxism, modern science, Nietzschean philosophy, and critical theology. Modes of Faith addresses both this decline of religious belief and the new modes of secular faith that took religion's place in the minds of many writers and poets.Theodore Ziolkowski here examines the motives for this embrace of the secular, locating new modes of faith in art, escapist travel, socialism, politicized myth, and utopian visions. James Joyce, he reveals, turned to art as an esc

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

1. Introduction

2. The Melancholy, Long, Withdrawing Roar

3. Theologians of the Profane

4. The Religion of Art

5. Pilgrimages to India

6. The God That Failed

7. The Hunger for Myth

8. The Longing for Utopia

9. Renewals of Spirituality

Notes

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-272) and index.

ISBN:

9786611966904

9781281966902

1281966908

9780226983660

0226983668

OCLC:

309140016