America and other fictions : on radical faith and post-religion /

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Author / Creator:	Simon, Ed (Writer), author.
Imprint:	Winchester, UK ; Washington, USA : Zero Books, 2018. ©2017
Description:	ix, 256 pages ; 22 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Religion -- Philosophy. Faith and reason. Religion. Religion -- Philosophy. United States -- Religion. United States.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11901180

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ISBN:	9781785358456 1785358456 9781785358463
Summary:	"At a moment of cultural and political crisis, with forces of reaction seemingly ascendant throughout the West, it's fair to ask what use does anyone have for America, God, or any other similar fictions? What use does theological language have for the radical facing the apocalypse? Among the subjects considered: the need for an Augustinian left, legacies of American violence, speaking in tongues, the humanities facing climate change, the maturity of realizing that you will die, how to sail towards Utopia, and witches."--Back cover.
Other form:	ebook version : 9781785358463

Table of Contents:

Preface
Introduction: The Good Fight of Wisdom
An Augustinian Left
The Non-Apotheosis of Thomas Paine
Scriptures for a Dead God (On the Occasion of the 150th Year of Leaves of Grass)
Daddy, What Did You Do in the Culture Wars?
The Death of God, Again
Apocalypse is the Mother of Beauty
New Jerusalem in the Alleghenies; or, the Madman of Bedford County
The Bondsman's Years
Chair'd in the Adamant of Time: On "America" and Other Fictions
The Crucified God
Philadelphia, West of Babylon and East of Paradise
The Page to Damascus
For Sister Frances Carr
Speaking in Tongues of Fire
The American Apocalyptic Sublime and the Twilight of Empire
I Dreamed I saw Bob Dylan: On an American Prophet
Remember that the Devil is Quite a Gentleman
American Jezebels: Let Us Now Praise Anne Hutchinson and Mary Dyer
Utmost Malice of Their Stars
The Remembrance of Amalek
Wheresoever They Come They Be at Home
Debts Owed to Death
An Almost Chosen People
The Sacred and the Profane in Pittsburgh

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