Jordana Rosenberg

Critical Enthusiasm

Capital Accumulation and the Transformation of Religious Passion

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Critical Enthusiasm tracks the intertwined histories of religious radicalism and economic transformation in the long eighteenth century. Rosenberg situates the rhetoric of enthusiastic rapture in the context of the major institutional transformations of early modernity.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 232
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9780199328826
• ISBN-10: 019932882X
• Artikelnr.: 38028277

Autorenporträt

Jordana Rosenberg is Associate Professor of English at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

Inhaltsangabe

INTRODUCTION:
RELIGION, OR SECULARIZATION: DIALECTICAL METHOD FOR THE LITERARY STUDY OF SECULARISMS
SECTION ONE: TIME
CHAPTER ONE
ENTHUSIASM AND HISTORICISM:
MOSAIC LAW AND THE NARRATION OF HISTORY
CHAPTER TWO
THE LEGISLATION OF ACCUMULATION:
THE CAMISARD TRIAL AND STRUCTURES OF BELIEF
SECTION TWO: SPACE
CHAPTER THREE
SOCIAL REGULATION AND TRANSATLANTIC ACCUMULATION
CHAPTER FOUR
"A CRY FROM THE DESART": SPATIALITY AND SECULARISM
CHAPTER FIVE
POETIC ENTHUSIASM;
THE CITY, THE COUNTRY, AND EXTENDED ACCUMULATION
Index