One of two volumes on the relationship between popular religion and the self-help tradition in American culture, this book focuses on early America, from the Protestant Ethic and Puritan New England through Revivialism and American Romanticism. The concept of self-help is a distinctive part of the American character of individualism. This volume provides an introductory interpretive guide to major self-help figures and movements with origins in popular religious movements. The opening chapter recounts the perspectives and conclusions of previous histories of American self-help and includes analyses of several important related works. The following chapters present a historical narrative that traces those junctures where American history and popular religion have reputedly and actually intersected. In surveying the historical and scholarly materials that depict the history of popular religion and self-help, this volume emphasizes the historiographical debates that shape the interpretation of the ideas and figures. This reference will serve as a valuable research tool for American religion and popular culture scholars. Arranged chronologically, this volume discusses, in three major sections, the Protestant Ethic and Puritan New England; Benjamin Franklin, Cotton Mather, and Individualism; and Revivalism, Religious Experience, and the birth of mental healing. An extensive bibliography is included.
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One of two volumes on the relationship between popular religion and the self-help tradition in American culture, this book focuses on early America, from the Protestant Ethic and Puritan New England through Revivialism and American Romanticism.
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Introduction Academic Histories of Self-Help The Protestant Ethic and Puritan New England Benjamin Franklin, Cotton Mather, and Individualism Revivalism, Religious Experience, and the Birth of Mental Healing Bibliography
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Focuses on early America, from the Protestant Ethic and Puritan New England through Revivalism and American Romanticism.
This is a series of book-length researched reference guides to the major subjects in American popular culture. Each volume covers the history, and summarizes the literature on its field of study, providing bibliographical essays and citations to thousands of related titles in each field.
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Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780313311369
Publisert
1999-11-30
Utgiver
Vendor
Greenwood Press
Vekt
567 gr
Høyde
235 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
UU, UP, P, 05, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
256

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Biographical note

ROY ANKER teaches English and Film at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In addition to many scholarly and popular essays, he edited and co-wrote Dancing in the Dark: Youth, Popular Culture, and Electronic Media (1991).