| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 283 pages) |
| Contents |
Part One: The Decline of Faith -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Melancholy, Long, Withdrawing Roar -- 3. Theologians of the Profane -- Part Two: New Modes of Faith -- 4. The Religion of Art -- 5. Pilgrimages to India -- 6. The God That Failed -- 7. The Hunger for Myth -- 8. The Longing for Utopia -- Part Three: Conclusion -- 9. Renewals of Spirituality |
| Summary |
In the decades surrounding World War I, religious belief receded in the face of radical new ideas such as Marxism, modern science, Nietzschean philosophy, and critical theology. Modes of Faith addresses both this decline of religious belief and the new modes of secular faith that took religion's place in the minds of many writers and poets. Theodore Ziolkowski here examines the motives for this embrace of the secular, locating new modes of faith in art, escapist travel, socialism, politicized myth, and utopian visions. James Joyce, he reveals, turned to art as an escape while Hermann Hesse made |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-272) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Implicit religion -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
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Religion and literature -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
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Secularism -- Europe -- History -- 20th century
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Secularism in literature.
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European literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Sociology of Religion.
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European literature
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Implicit religion
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Secularism in literature
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Religion
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Religion and literature
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Secularism
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Europe -- Religion -- 20th century
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Europe
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Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780226983660 |
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0226983668 |
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