Andrea Knutson

American Spaces of Conversion

The Conductive Imaginaries of Edwards, Emerson, and James

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Produktbeschreibung

This study examines how the concept of conversion and specifically the legacy of the doctrine of preparation, as articulated in Puritan Reformed theology and transplanted to the Massachusetts Bay colony, remained a vital cultural force shaping developments in American literature, theology, and, ultimately, in philosophy in the form of pragmatism.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Dezember 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 417g
• ISBN-13: 9780195370928
• ISBN-10: 0195370929
• Artikelnr.: 31083256

Autorenporträt

Andrea Knutson is Assistant Professor of Early American Literature, Oakland University.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* List of Abbreviations
* Introduction
* 1.: A Believing Attitude
* 2.: "Something That is Seen, That is Wonderful": Jonathan Edwards and
the Feeling of Conviction
* 3.: Ralph Waldo Emerson and the "Universal Impulse to Believe"
* 4.: William James's Uncertain Universe: Theory as Theology in The
Varieties of Religious Experience
* Index