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

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

Autor William Dean
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 oct 2006
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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780826418968
ISBN-10: 0826418961
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 147 x 220 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.34 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Continuum
Locul publicării:New York, United States

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Cuprins

Part I: God the Opaque
1. Skepticism
2. Displaced People
3. Pragmatism
4. Mystery
Part II: America the Invisible
5. Jazz
6. Football
7. Movies
Conclusion: The Irony of Atheism

Recenzii

"Dean's approach is on the right track in two ways. Cultural practices as deeply engrained as football film and jazz are not fully grasped if we see them only as secular entertainments. They are capable of expressing yearnings for a more vital life.The second way that Dean's perspective strikes me as promising is in his insistence that any viable common culture needs a spiritual basis. Dean should be praised for raising big questions that others avoid."-Christian Century
"Who is God and what has God to do with Americans? Hard questions. But William Dean has explored them with insight and originality, opening up ways of thinking that had seemed closed and looking for light in places most scholars of religion would never look: jazz, football, and the movies. This is an intensely readable book that should reach a large audience of scholars and lay people alike." --Robert Bellah, Professor of Sociology, Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley and coauthor of Habits of the Heart and The Good Society.
"The reader should not assume that this book will be light reading because its title speaks of jazz, football, and the movies: it is instead a serious study of American culture from a spiritual or theological point of view. Dean (Iliff School of Theology, The Religious Critic in American Culture) aruges that culture of Ameica is religious not just because so many Americans belong to churches, synagogues, temples, or mosques but also because Americans look for some standard greater than themselves by which to love adn to judge their nation. In the second part, he discusses three creations of American culture-jazz, football, the movies-and how it took a culture like America's to give birth to these phenomena. America is a new country lacking old traditions, so Americans had to improvise; a hallmark of jazz is improvisation. Americans violently took over a wilderness; football is very much organzied violence. Without Old World traditions, Americans found new ones in the movies, cowboys, war heroes, gangsters, and more. There is much depth in this engaging, well-written book. Highly recommended." --Library Journal
"Dean contributes some valuable insights and new material to the discussion [of the nation's character]" --Commonweal, 5/23/03
"This book is an appropriate text for graduate and undergraduate courses in religion and culture, serving not as an introductory text outlining various methodologies but as an engaging exploration of one approach." --Russell W. Dalton, Religious Studies R
"This book offers an interesting intellectual sojourn..." -Choice
"The study of the nation's character is a genre of American writing older than the nation itself, tracing its origins at least as far back as Crèvecoeur's Letters from an American Farmer. In the latest renewal of this tradition, theologian William Dean argues that Americans share a common spiritual culture 'that is sometimes more vividly expressed through secular activities such as jazz, football, and the movies than through the overtly sacred activities of organized religion.'"-Commonweal
"This is an intensely readable book that should reach a large audience of scholars and lay people alike."-Robert Bellah
"There is much depth in this engaging, well-written book. Highly recommended."-Library Journal
"A deeply challenging and thought-provoking book that ought to have considerable impact on the academic study of spirituality (and indeed on much of the field of religious studies)....Dean has much to say to the many academics and intellectual;s who currently sense that they are cut off from much of con temporary American sensibilities, and are unable to grasp why the perspectives most persuasive within universities do no resonate with the majority of the population."-Spiritus