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God-Fearing and Free

A Spiritual History of America's Cold War

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$41.50 • £30.95 • €37.40

ISBN 9780674055551

Publication: November 2010

TEXT

448 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

World

  • Prologue
  • Introduction: Going beyond Modernism from World War I to the Cold War
  • Part One: How a Theologian Served the Opinion Elite, and How an Evangelist Startled Them
    • 1 Christianity, Reason, and the National Character
    • 2 Origins of an Ailing Polemic
  • Part Two: Narratives of Blindness and Insight in an Era of Confession
    • 3 Guilt of the Thirties, Penitence of the Fifties
    • 4 McCarthyism through Sentimental Melodrama and Film Noir
  • Part Three: Cold War Cultural Politics and the Varieties of Religious Experience
    • 5 The Mass Culture Critique’s Implications for American Religion
    • 6 Jeremiads on the American Arcade and Its Consumption Ethic
  • Part Four: Versions of Inwardness in Cold War Psychology and the Neo-Gothic
    • 7 Controversies over Therapeutic Religion
    • 8 Locating the Enigma of Shirley Jackson
  • Part Five: The Styles of Prophecy
    • 9 Voices of Reform, Radicalism, and Conservative Dissent
    • 10 James Baldwin and the Wages of Innocence
  • Epilogue: Putting an End to Ending Our Innocence
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Index

Awards

  • 2011 Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Reference/Primary Source Work, Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association
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