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Köp båda 2 för 710 krIn an examination of religion coverage in Time, Newsweek, Life, The Saturday Evening Post, Ebony, Christianity Today, National Review, and other news and special interest magazines, Sean McCloud combines religious history and social theory to anal...
Placing the neglected issue of class back into the study and understanding of religion, Sean McCloud reconsiders the meaning of class in today's world. More than a status grounded in material conditions, says McCloud, class is also an identity rhe...
J. Tyler Odle, Reading Religion In an understudied field, McCloud's analysis is a welcomed addition due to his concise argument, fair criticisms, and well-organized work on a topic that is often dismissed.
Nova Religio Religious studies scholars will find much to appreciate in American Possessions ... American Possessions would make an excellent supplemental text for an upper division undergraduate/graduate religious studies or sociology of religion course. It is also an important scholarly contribution for examining lived religion in the American context.
Jason Bivins, author of Religion of Fear: The Politics of Horror in Conservative Evangelicalism Sean McCloud has long been a gifted analyst of discursive formations of 'religion' in American culture, and American Possessions is his strongest, most ambitious work yet. He engages the important but misunderstood presence of Third Wave spiritual warfare literature, subtly and creatively describing its intersections with and dependence on Gothic tropes of haunting, neoliberal conceptions of agency, and the ethos of the therapeutic. Historically nuanced, theoretically probing, and stylistically distinctive, this book will be deservedly much-discussed.
J. R. Stone, CHOICE Highly recommended.
Sean McCloud is an Associate Professor of Religious Studies and American Studies and Communication Studies Faculty Affiliate at The University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He teaches, publishes, and researches in the fields of American religions and religion and culture. His publications include Making the American Religious Fringe: Exotics, Subversives, and Journalists, 1955-1993 (2004), Divine Hierarchies: Class in American Religion and Religious Studies (2007), and a co-edited volume, Religion and Class in America: Culture, History, and Politics (2009).
Acknowledgments ; Introduction: American Religion in an Era of Possessions ; Chapter 1: Delivering the World ; Chapter 2: Possessed Possessions, Defiled Land, and the Horrors of History ; Chapter 3: The Gothic Therapeutic ; Chapter 4: Haunting Desires: Agency in an Era of Possessions ; Conclusion ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index