UID:
edocfu_9959797243202883
Format:
1 online resource (191 p.)
ISBN:
0-19-020537-7
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0-19-020536-9
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0-19-020538-5
Content:
'American Possessions' examines contemporary American religious culture through the themes of a 'consuming convert's republic', 'the haunted present', and 'the therapeutic'. The work argues that US religious culture in the twenty-first century can be characterised as immersed in and constitutive of an era of possessions - of both consumer goods and spirit entities such as ghosts and demons - and that these 'possessions' are thoroughly saturated with the reverberations of therapeutic discourse.
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: American Religion in an Era of Possessions""; ""1. Delivering the World""; ""2. Possessed Possessions, Defiled Land, and the Horrors of History""; ""3. The Gothic Therapeutic""; ""4. Haunting Desires: Agency in an Era of Possessions""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-336-20592-X
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-19-020535-0
Language:
English
