<p>This comprehensive narrative account of religion in America from 1607 through the present depicts the religious life of the American people within the context of American society. It addresses topics ranging from the European/Puritan origins of American religious thought, the ramifications of the “Great Awakening”, the effect of nationhood on religious practice, and the shifting religious configuration of the late 20th century.</p>

Religion in America

History

Bedell, George C.

Sandon, Leo

Welborn, Charles T.

Americas

Pearson

Large 8vo. x, 261 pp, acknowledgments, 1. Introduction: Why Kierkegaard and Faulkner; Kierkegaard Our Contemporary; 2. Part I. The Structure of Modernity: 2. A Critique of Modernity; 3. The Informing Principle; 4. Sensuousness and the Spirit; 5. The Nature of Tragedy; 6. Joe Christmas and the Incarnation. Part II. The Structure of Existence: 7. The Modalities of Existence; 8. The Three Stages; 9. The Aesthetical According to Kierkegaard; 10. The Romantic Horace Benbow; 11. The Ethical According to Kierkegaard; 12. The Ethical Courage of Charlotte Rittenmeyer and Harry Wilbourne. Part III. The Structure of Time: Entra'acte: 13. Kierkegaard's View of Time; 14. Whose Time? Satre on Faulkner; 15. Varieties of Time in the Novels; 16 Faulkner's View of Time. Part IV. Modalities of Religiousness: 17. The Reliigious According to Kierkegaard; 18. The Endured; index. First Edition, 1972. Black cloth boards with magenta and blue lettering on spine.

Kierkegaard and Faulkner: modalities of existence

Louisiana State University Press

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