TY - BOOK AU - Stewart,Carole Lynn ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Strange Jeremiahs: civil religion and the literary imaginations of Jonathan Edwards, Herman Melville, and W.E.B. Du Bois T2 - Religions of the Americas series AV - BL2525 .S7525 2010 U1 - 202/.3 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Albuquerque PB - University of New Mexico Press KW - Edwards, Jonathan, KW - Melville, Herman, KW - Du Bois, W. E. B. KW - Civil religion KW - United States KW - History KW - Politics and government KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 349-362) and index; The beginning of the American Revolution in the conversion of Northampton. The travail of the Puritan covenant -- Original sin: human limitations and the openness of community -- God is no respecter of persons: the ordinary, lowly, and infantile nature of the revival -- The "strange revolution" and the aesthetics of grace -- The second great awakening, the national period, and Melville's American destiny. Pierre; or, The Ambiguities and the formation of the American dilemma -- A revolutionary marriage deferred -- The mystery of Melville's darkwoman -- From "self" to "soul": W.E.B. Du Bois's critical understanding of the ideals of liberal democracy in the new world. Strange Jeremiah: civil religion and the public intellectual -- Strivings and original sin: the unlovely, plural American soul -- The talented tenth and colonizing heroes -- Du Bois's aesthetic of beauty in the new world -- The irony of the American self; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=1119016 ER -