Fiction with a Parochial Purpose
Author | : Paul R. Messbarger |
Publisher | : Boston Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : American fiction |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Paul R. Messbarger |
Publisher | : Boston Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 1971 |
Genre | : American fiction |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Paul R. Messbarger |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 179 |
Release | : 1971-01-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780268000172 |
Author | : Anita Gandolfo |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 209 |
Release | : 2007-08-30 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0313083614 |
In recent years, there has been an explosion in the market for fiction on religious topics and themes, most notably Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code. The variety of contemporary religious fiction and the publishing phenomenon surrounding it indicate that this literature transcends any overt religious meaning and is significant in its political and social implications; it is emblematic of the contemporary American Zeitgeist. Traditionally, literature is both mirror and lamp, reflecting the society that produces it and illuminating the values and interests of that society. Recognizing both of those perspectives, Gandolfo examines Christian literature's place in American culture today and explores the cultural meaning and significance of the wildly popular Christian fiction now available. The phenomenon surrounding Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code has led to a cottage industry of interpretations, attacks, and commentaries, but one thing is certain: the book has had an enormous impact on American society, culture, and religious understanding, not to mention the publishing industry, which scrambles to find similar religious books to feed to an eager public. But The Da Vinci Code is not the only book of its type on the market today. In recent years, there has been an explosion in the market for fiction on religious topics and themes, with an entire series devoted to the impending Rapture as described in the Left Behind series. Some fiction does not take an explicitly religious theme as these books do. Instead, writers like Andre Dubus and Ron Hansen imbue their creative work with spiritual and religious themes embedded in the everyday lives and concerns of their characters. Regardless of the specific approach, what is not in doubt is that American readers have made the authors of these works wealthy as bookstores cannot stock their shelves with enough copies. Why the recent surge of interest in Christian fiction? How does it reflect trends in our culture and our lives? How has it changed our society and our understanding of spirituality and religion? How accurate are these books in terms of the theology they espouse? The variety of contemporary religious fiction and the publishing phenomenon surrounding it indicate that this literature transcends any overt religious meaning and is significant in its political and social implications; it is emblematic of the contemporary American Zeitgeist. Traditionally, literature is both mirror and lamp, reflecting the society that produces it and illuminating the values and interests of that society. Recognizing both of those perspectives, Faith and Fiction examines Christian literature's place in American culture today and explores the cultural meaning and significance of the wildly popular Christian fiction now available.
Author | : Christine Pawley |
Publisher | : Univ of Massachusetts Press |
Total Pages | : 286 |
Release | : 2010-01-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781558497825 |
An innovative study of the uses of print in daily life
Author | : Marshall W. Stearns |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 1970-09-15 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 0190281154 |
The effect of jazz upon American culture and the American character has been all-pervasive. This superlative history is the first and the most renowned systematic outline of the evolution of this unique American musical phenomenon. Stearns begins with the joining of the African Negro's musical heritage with European forms and the birth of jazz in New Orleans then follows its course through the era of swing and bop to the beginnings of rock in the 50s, vividly depicting the great innovators, and covering such technical elements as the music's form and structure.
Author | : David M. Emmons |
Publisher | : University of Oklahoma Press |
Total Pages | : 902 |
Release | : 2011-12-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0806184558 |
Convention has it that Irish immigrants in the nineteenth century confined themselves mainly to industrial cities of the East and Midwest. The truth is that Irish Catholics went everywhere in America and often had as much of a presence in the West as in the East. In Beyond the American Pale, David M. Emmons examines this multifaceted experience of westering Irish and, in doing so, offers a fresh and discerning account of America's westward expansion. "Irish in the West" is not a historical contradiction, but it is — and was — a historical problem. Irish Catholics were not supposed to be in the West—that was where Protestant Americans went to reinvent themselves. For many of the same reasons that the spread of southern slavery was thought to profane the West, a Catholic presence there was thought to contradict it — to contradict America's Protestant individualism and freedom. The Catholic Irish were condemned as the clannish, backward remnants of an old cultural world that Americans self-consciously sought to leave behind. The sons and daughters of Erin were not assimilated, and because they were not assimilable, they should be kept beyond the American pale. As Emmons amply demonstrates, however, western reality was far more complicated. Irish Catholicism may have outraged Protestant-inspired American republicanism, but Irish Catholics were a necessary component of America's equally Protestant-inspired foray into industrial capitalism. They were also necessary to the successive conquests of the "frontier," wherever it might be found. It was the Irish who helped build the railroads, dig the hard rocks, man the army posts, and do the other arduous, dangerous, and unattractive toiling required by an industrializing society. With vigor and panache, Emmons describes how the West was not so much won as continually contested and reshaped. He probes the self-fulfilling mythology of the American West, along with the far different mythology of the Irish pioneers. The product of three decades of research and thought, Beyond the American Pale is a masterful yet accessible recasting of American history, the culminating work of a singular thinker willing to take a wholly new perspective on the past.
Author | : Paul Giles |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 570 |
Release | : 1992-06-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0521417775 |
Examines how secular transformations of religious ideas have helped to shape the style and substance of works by American writers, filmmakers and artists from Catholic backgrounds.
Author | : Kerby A. Miller |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 704 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780195051872 |
Explains the reasons for the large Irish emigration, and examines the problems they faced adjusting to new lives in the United States.
Author | : Nick Salvatore |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2007-03-05 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 0252031431 |
Catholicism s impact on the lives and work of professional historians"
Author | : F. Michael Perko |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 681 |
Release | : 2017-12-22 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 1351113410 |
Originally published in 1988, this title looks at the importance of the Catholic school in American education from 1830 to 1980. The articles in this collection illuminate the patterns of development. The most prevalent theme is that of school controversy, involving either Catholic conflict with public education and the wider culture on the one hand, or internal dissension within the Catholic community regarding the desirability of separate schools on the other. Taken together, these essays serve as pieces of a mosaic, interesting in themselves yet corporately providing a comprehensive picture of the history of Catholic schooling in America. They remind us that these institutions grew up as a response to particular forces at work in the wider society as well as within the Catholic community itself.