God-fearing and free : a spiritual history of America's Cold War / Jason W. Stevens.

Author/creator Stevens, Jason W., 1975-
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2010.
Descriptionxiii, 434 pages ; 25 cm
Subjects

Contents Introduction: Going beyond modernism from World War I to the Cold War -- Pt. 1. How a theologican served the opinion elite, and how an evangelist startled them. Christianity, reason, and the national character -- Origins of an ailing polemic -- Pt. 2. Narratives of blindness and insight in an era of confession. Guilt of the thirties, penitence of the fifties -- McCarthyism through sentimental melodrama and film noir -- Pt. 3. Cold War cultural politics and the varieties of religious experience. The mass culture critique's implications for American religion -- Jeremiads on the American arcade and its consumption ethic -- Pt. 4. Versions of inwardness in Cold War psychology and the neo-Gothic. Controversies over therapeutic religion -- Locating the enigma of Shirley Jackson -- Pt. 5. The styles of prophecy. Voices of reform, radicalism, and conservative dissent -- James Baldwin and the wages of innocence -- Epilogue: Putting an end to ending our innocence.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2010024972
ISBN9780674055551 (alk. paper)
ISBN0674055551 (alk. paper)

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Joyner General Stacks BR526 .S74 2010 ✔ Available Place Hold