Pentecostal modernism: Lovecraft, Los Angeles and world-systems culture
Bringing together new accounts of the pulp horror writings of H.P. Lovecraft and the rise of the popular early 20th-century religious movements of American Pentecostalism and Social Gospel, Pentecostal Modernism challenges traditional histories of modernism as a secular avant-garde movement based in...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
2017
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| In: | Jahr: 2017 |
| Ausgabe: | First published |
| Schriftenreihe/Zeitschrift: | New directions in religion and literature
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| normierte Schlagwort(-folgen): | B
Lovecraft, H. P. 1890-1937
/ Religiöse Bewegung
/ Modernismus
/ Geschichte
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| weitere Schlagwörter: | B
Lovecraft, H. P (Howard Phillips) (1890-1937)
Criticism and interpretation
B Revivals History B Pentecostalism B Modernism (Literature) B United States B Lovecraft, H. P. 1890-1937 Criticism and interpretation Lovecraft, H. P. 1890-1937 B Revivals B Lovecraft, H. P B Modernism (Christian theology) B History B Criticism, interpretation, etc B Pentecostalism (United States) |
| Zusammenfassung: | Bringing together new accounts of the pulp horror writings of H.P. Lovecraft and the rise of the popular early 20th-century religious movements of American Pentecostalism and Social Gospel, Pentecostal Modernism challenges traditional histories of modernism as a secular avant-garde movement based in capital cities such as London or Paris. Disrupting accounts that separate religion from progressive social movements and mass culture, Stephen Shapiro and Philip Barnard construct a new Modernism belonging to a history of regional cities, new urban areas powered by the hopes and frustrations of recently urbanized populations seeking a better life. In this way, Pentecostal Modernism shows how this process of urbanization generates new cultural practices including the invention of religious traditions and mass-cultural forms Bringing together new accounts of the pulp horror writings of H.P. Lovecraft and the rise of the popular early 20th-century religious movements of American Pentecostalism and Social Gospel, Pentecostal Modernism challenges traditional histories of modernism as a secular avant-garde movement based in capital cities such as London or Paris. Disrupting accounts that separate religion from progressive social movements and mass culture, Stephen Shapiro and Philip Barnard construct a new Modernism belonging to a history of regional cities, new urban areas powered by the hopes and frustrations of recently urbanized populations seeking a better life. In this way, Pentecostal Modernism shows how this process of urbanization generates new cultural practices including the invention of religious traditions and mass-cultural forms |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-175) and index |
| ISBN: | 1474238734 |