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Modes of faith : secular surrogates for lost religious belief / Theodore Ziolkowski.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2007.Description: 1 online resource (xii, 283 pages)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780226983660
  • 0226983668
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Modes of faith.DDC classification:
  • 306.6 22
LOC classification:
  • BL98.7 .Z55 2007eb
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  • online - EBSCO
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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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - EBSCO (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (ebsco)260517

Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-272) and index.

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.

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.

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