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New World Metaphysics: Readings on the Religious Meaning of the American Experience

by Giles Gunn

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An anthology tracing religious ideas through American self-understanding

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An anthology tracing religious ideas through American self-understanding

Edited by Giles Gunn, this wide-ranging anthology gathers more than one hundred selections that examine how religious motifs have shaped interpretations of the American experience. Spanning early European visions of America through later periods of disillusionment and uncertain hope, it brings poets, philosophers, historians, novelists, and theologians into conversation. The volume moves across forms including travel accounts, diaries, lyric poetry, and theological writing, with contributors ranging from Anne Bradstreet and Jonathan Edwards to Emerson, William James, Malcolm X, and Norman Mailer. Gunn’s introductions identify the major themes connecting these varied texts and frame the collection’s search for a distinctly American spiritual narrative.

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  • Students of American religious thought and intellectual history
  • Readers interested in primary texts across American literature, philosophy, and theology
  • Those seeking a broad anthology on spirituality and national identity in the United States

Themes

Religion and the American experienceSpirituality and national identityHope, disillusionment, and social orderAmerican intellectual and literary history

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Book overview

From the days of discovery, when America was for Europeans more dream than reality, to our own days of disillusionment and faltering hope, poets, philosophers, historians, novelists, and theologians have drawn on religious themes and motifs to express the meaning of their encounter with America. Here, in more than one hundred selections, is the record of their quest for a New World metaphysics--a spiritual narrative of hope and order expressive of the American experience.

Comprehensive in scope, New World Metaphysics draws on a diverse body of material, ranging from travel narratives and personal diaries to lyric poetry and theological treatises, by such writers as Shakespeare, Anne Bradstreet, Jonathan Edwards, Benjamin Franklin, Ralph Waldo Emerson, William James, H. L. Mencken, John Dewey, Reinhold Niebuhr, Malcolm X, and Norman Mailer. Introductions by the editor highlight the principal themes.
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