This book provides a new rationale for "religious criticism" in American society. First, Dean shows why today's academic intellectuals are relatively indifferent to questions of meaning in America, pointing to the loss of American "exceptionalism," the professionalization of the academy, and the rise of post-structural criticism. He then shows how intellectuals may reclaim a prophetic role by offering a new theory of the nature of religious thought. Tracing this theory to a twentieth-century emphasis on conventions, Dean provides a way to understand how imaginative social constructions can become active historical conventions, with real historical force. He suggests that the sacred itself begins as an imaginative construct and becomes a convention, thus working as an active, "living" force in history. Finally, Dean argues that religious critics must now reclaim a responsibility for shaping their society's sacred conventions.

The Religious Critic in American Culture (SUNY Series in Religious Studies)

History

Dean, William

World

State Univ of New York Pr

This book provides a new rationale for “religious criticism” in American society. First, Dean shows why today’s academic intellectuals are relatively indifferent to questions of meaning in America, pointing to the loss of American “exceptionalism,” the professionalization of the academy, and the rise of post-structural criticism. He then shows how intellectuals may reclaim a prophetic role by offering a new theory of the nature of religious thought. Tracing this theory to a twentieth-century emphasis on conventions, Dean provides a way to understand how imaginative social constructions can become active historical conventions, with real historical force. He suggests that the sacred itself begins as an imaginative construct and becomes a convention, thus working as an active, “living” force in history. Finally, Dean argues that religious critics must now reclaim a responsibility for shaping their society’s sacred conventions.

The Religious Critic in American Culture (Emotions)

State University of New York Press

Americans are perhaps the most openly and energetically religious of all the peoples among the developed nations. Americans are religious in all the obvious ways, belonging to churches, synagogues and mosques as well as nurturing private spiritualities. But they are religious also in public ways, aiming to find a standard large enough to frame their common life and to judge them and their country.In this book, ow in paperback, William Dean describes the spiritual culture that is grounded in the emerging American story. He also explores the concept of God (or the "Ultimate") that is central to that story - a concept that is reflected in contemporary American culture, including popular culture.

The American Spiritual Culture: And the Invention of Jazz, Football, and the Movies

Politics & Social Sciences

Sociology

Bloomsbury Academic

Religion & Spirituality

Americans are perhaps the most openly and energetically religious of all the peoples among the developed nations. Americans are religious in all the obvious ways, belonging to churches, synagogues and mosques as well as nurturing private spiritualities. But they are religious also in public ways, aiming to find a standard large enough to frame their common life and to judge them and their country.In this book, now in paperback, William Dean describes the spiritual culture that is grounded in the emerging American story. He also explores the concept of God (or the "Ultimate") that is central to that story - a concept that is reflected in contemporary American culture, including popular culture.

Social Sciences

Continuum

American Religious Empiricism (Suny Series in Religious Studies)

In nineteenth-century France, parents abandoned their children in overwhelming numbers--up to 20 percent of live births in the Parisian area. The infants were left at state-run homes and were then transferred to rural wet nurses and foster parents. Their chances of survival were slim, but with alterations in state policy, economic and medical development, and changing attitudes toward children and the family, their chances had significantly improved by the end of the century. Rachel Fuchs has drawn on newly discovered archival sources and previously untapped documents of the Paris foundling home in order to depict the actual conditions of abandoned children and to reveal the bureaucratic and political response. This study traces the evolution of French social policy from early attempts to limit welfare to later efforts to increase social programs and influence family life. Abandoned Children illuminates in detail the family life of nineteenth-century French poor. It shows how French social policy with respect to abandoned children sought to create an economically useful and politically neutral underclass out of a segment of the population that might otherwise have been an economic drain and a potential political threat.

American Religious Empiricism (SUNY Series in Religious Studies)

In nineteenth-century France, parents abandoned their children in overwhelming numbers―up to 20 percent of live births in the Parisian area. The infants were left at state-run homes and were then transferred to rural wet nurses and foster parents. Their chances of survival were slim, but with alterations in state policy, economic and medical development, and changing attitudes toward children and the family, their chances had significantly improved by the end of the century.

The forest products industry has a vocabulary of its own.

Terms of the Trade: A Reference for the Forest Products Industry

Reference

Random Lengths Pubns

August Vollmer: Pioneer in Police Professionalism: Oral History Transcript / and Related Material, 1971-197; Volume 01

Vollmer, August

Robinson, Jane Howard

Legare Street Press

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The flight of Pony Baker : a boy's town story

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The Religious Critic in American Culture (SUNY Series in Religious Studies)

The Religious Critic in American Culture (Emotions)

The American Spiritual Culture: And the Invention of Jazz, Football, and the Movies

The American Spiritual Culture: And the Invention of Jazz, Football, and the Movies

The American Spiritual Culture: And the Invention of Jazz, Football, and the Movies

American Religious Empiricism (SUNY Series in Religious Studies)

American Religious Empiricism (Suny Series in Religious Studies)

Terms of the Trade: A Reference for the Forest Products Industry

August Vollmer: Pioneer in Police Professionalism: Oral History Transcript / and Related Material, 1971-197; Volume 01

The flight of Pony Baker : a boy's town story