Christianity and 'the World'

Secularization Narratives through the Lens of English Poetry A.D. 800 to the Present

AvDavid Martin

Häftad, Engelska, 2021

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A development of David Martin's secularization theory with reference to the history of poetry.David Martin was one of the world's leading commentators on secularization theory. He was also a committed and lifelong reader of English poetry. Christianity and 'The World' develops Martin's argument against simplistic secularization narratives with reference to the history of poetry, a topic with which few social theorists have been concerned. Martin shows the enduring but ever-changing centrality of Christian thought and practice, in its many different forms, to English poetry. Always mindful that the most important aspects of poetry's history can be captured only by attending to the minutest particulars of individual poems and poets, Martin's study sheds unexpected light on a wide range of English poets, from Spenser and Shakespeare to T.S. Eliot and Geoffrey Hill. The result is a study at once informed by an authoritative sociological perspective on secularization and richly coloured by the singular intensity of Martin's own reading life.

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Utgivningsdatum:2021-06-24
Mått:228 x 152 x 23 mm
Vikt:222 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Lutterworth Press
Antal sidor:227
Förlag:Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN:9780718895785

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David Martin was born in 1929. He was a sociologist and theologian, Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics, Fellow of the British Academy, and an ordained priest in the Church of England. His research concerned problems of secularization, religion and violence, the growth of global Pentecostalism, and the interface of sociology and theology. He published over twenty books and several volumes of sermons.

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This is a genuinely unique book. David Martin - probably the greatest British sociologist of religion in recent decades - maps out the basic tensions between Christianity's innate urge to construct an alternative reality, and its accommodations to that world. . . . A treasury for intellect and imagination alike.

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The Rationale of This Book | ixAcknowledgments | xviiIntroduction | 1Chapter 1 An Overview of the Problem | 14Chapter 2 Ninth to Sixteenth Centuries | 21Chapter 3 Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries | 30Chapter 4 The Nineteenth Century: The Early Romantics | 43Chapter 5 The Mid-Victorians | 51Chapter 6 The Early Twentieth Century | 83Chapter 7 War Poets; Pacifists and Marxists;Poets of Wars Post-1945 | 91Chapter 8 Eliot and Auden | 108Chapter 9 Faith and Place | 118Chapter 10 Larkin to Hughes; Plath to Duffy | 129Chapter 11 Donald Davie, Charles Sisson, and Geoffrey Hill;Denise Levertov, Andrew Motion,and Michael Symmonds Roberts | 137Chapter 12 Conclusion | 147Chapter 13 Afterword | 158Appendix Hymnody | 166Bibliography | 183Index | 191