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Uncivil rites : American fiction, religion, and the public sphere / Robert Detweiler.

Detweiler, Robert.; IUPUI (Campus). Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture
1996
813.5409382 D483u
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Title
Uncivil rites : American fiction, religion, and the public sphere / Robert Detweiler.
Author
Detweiler, Robert.
ISBN
0252065808 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0252019326 (acid-free paper)
Imprint
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1996.
Language
English
Description
x, 250 p. ; 24 cm.
Call Number
813.5409382 D483u
System Control No.
(OCoLC)33206631
Note
"Published in cooperation with the Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture, Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis"--Ser. t.p.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note
Introduction : fictions of public realms
Communism : the public enemy
The crucible : the theocratic town and public evil
The book of Daniel : the fatally exposed family
The public burning : carnival, circus, and public execution
Erotic bodies as sites of faith
Sisterhood and sex : Agnes of God, Mariette in ecstasy, and The company of women
Possessing bodies : Quicksand and Beloved
Subjected wife : Many things have happened since he died
Dancing to the apocalypse
Apocalypse now : melancholia at the end
Indian country : disorder and late sorrow
Tracks : trickster hermeneutics.
Added Corporate Author
IUPUI (Campus). Center for the Study of Religion and American Culture
Series
Public expressions of religion in America
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