Peter J Thuesen

Tornado God

American Religion and Violent Weather

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

One of the earliest sources of humanity's religious impulse was severe weather, which ancient peoples attributed to the wrath of storm gods. Enlightenment thinkers derided such beliefs as superstition, but in America, scientific and theological hubris came face-to-face with the tornado, nature's most violent windstorm. In this groundbreaking history, Peter J. Thuesen traces the primal connections between weather and religion in the United States. He shows that tornadoes and other storms have repeatedly drawn Americans into the profoundest of religious mysteries and confronted them with the question of their own destiny--how much is self-determined and how much is beyond human understanding or control.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 160mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9780190680282
• ISBN-10: 0190680288
• Artikelnr.: 57792405

Autorenporträt

Peter J. Thuesen is Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) and co-editor of Religion and American Culture: A Journal of Interpretation. His previous books include Predestination: The American Career of a Contentious Doctrine, and In Discordance with the Scriptures: American Protestant Battles over Translating the Bible.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
1: "Whirlwind of the Lord":
The Enduring God(s) of the Storm
2: "The Violence of Winds, and the Reasonings of Men":
Storms and Providence in Colonial America
3: "Stormy Wind Fulfilling His Word":
Meteorology and Theology in the Nineteenth Century
4: "Every Wind of Doctrine":
Explaining the Whirlwind, 1900-1965
5: "As Stubble Before the Wind":
Divine Mystery and Human Responsibility
Conclusion: The Primal Whirlwind
Notes
Bibliography
Index