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Baylor University Press, September 2006. Hardcover. Very Good. While pinpointing the origin of modernity's love affair with spontaneity is certainly a complex, if not impossible, endeavor, Lori Branch examines the literatures of the eighteenth century in order to distill modernity's shift from a belief in ritual to an ultimately moral and aesthetic valuing of spontaneity. Acting as an archaeologist of history, literature, and religion, she highlights the secularizing trajectory inherent in the ideology of spontaneity and the sense of anxious paralysis it bred. The works of John Bunyan, Branch points out, provide both a theology of spontaneity and an example of the pervasive anxiety spontaneous prayer generates in the adherent's soul. The excruciating cost of this belief, she contends, is 'a theology that has come to understand itself almost wholly in evidentiary, economic terms.' Secular philosophers first derided then refashioned the spirituality of these religious enthusiasts…
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- Title Rituals of Spontaneity: Sentiment and Secularism from Free Prayer to Wordsworth
- Author Lori Branch
- Binding Hardcover
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- Pages 362
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Baylor University Press, Waco, TX
- Date September 30, 2006
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9781932792119 / 1932792112
- Weight 1.6 lbs (0.73 kg)
- Dimensions 9 x 6 x 1.13 in (22.86 x 15.24 x 2.87 cm)
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2006016972
- Dewey Decimal Code 820.938
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