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Figures in the carpet : finding the human person in the American past / edited by Wilfred M. McClay.

Contributor(s): McClay, Wilfred M
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Grand Rapids, Mich. : Wm. B. Eerdmans Pub., [2007]Copyright date: ©2007Description: x, 506 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0802863116 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780802863119 (pbk. : alk. paper)Subject(s): Theological anthropology -- Christianity | United States -- History | Theological anthropologyDDC classification: 126.0973 Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: from self to person - some preliminary thoughts / Wilfred M. McClay -- Human depravity: a neglected explanatory category / George M. Marsden -- Losing and finding the modern self: neglected resources from the golden age of American pragmatism / Michael J. Lacey -- Mirror images: framing the self in early New England material piety / Sally M. Promey -- The sympathetic self in American culture, 1750-1920 / Daniel Wickberg -- The disenchantment of women: gender and religion at the turn of the century (1865-1930) / Margaret Bendroth -- Me, myself, and inc.: "social selfhood", corporate humanism, and religious longing in American management theory, 1908-1956 / Eugene McCarraher -- A stranger's dream: the virtual self and the socialization crisis / Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn -- The uses of faith after Rieff: a personal response to The triumph of the therapeutic / Thomas A. Cole --Wendell Berry and the agrarian recovery of the human person / Allan Carlson -- The politics of suffering: Ivan Illich's critique of modern medicine / Christopher Shannon -- Pilgrim to an unknown land: Christopher Lasch's journey / Eric Miller -- Religion and education in the young republic / Daniel Walker Howe -- Catholicism and abolition: a historical (and theological) problem / John T. McGreevy -- The disposal of the dead: and what it tells us about American society and law / Charles J. Reid, Jr. -- Putting asunder: changing perceptions of marriage and personhood in the early-twentieth century United States / Christine Rosen -- "What kind of people are we?" The United States and the truth and reconciliation idea / Richard H. King.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: from self to person - some preliminary thoughts / Wilfred M. McClay -- Human depravity: a neglected explanatory category / George M. Marsden -- Losing and finding the modern self: neglected resources from the golden age of American pragmatism / Michael J. Lacey -- Mirror images: framing the self in early New England material piety / Sally M. Promey -- The sympathetic self in American culture, 1750-1920 / Daniel Wickberg -- The disenchantment of women: gender and religion at the turn of the century (1865-1930) / Margaret Bendroth -- Me, myself, and inc.: "social selfhood", corporate humanism, and religious longing in American management theory, 1908-1956 / Eugene McCarraher -- A stranger's dream: the virtual self and the socialization crisis / Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn -- The uses of faith after Rieff: a personal response to The triumph of the therapeutic / Thomas A. Cole --Wendell Berry and the agrarian recovery of the human person / Allan Carlson -- The politics of suffering: Ivan Illich's critique of modern medicine / Christopher Shannon -- Pilgrim to an unknown land: Christopher Lasch's journey / Eric Miller -- Religion and education in the young republic / Daniel Walker Howe -- Catholicism and abolition: a historical (and theological) problem / John T. McGreevy -- The disposal of the dead: and what it tells us about American society and law / Charles J. Reid, Jr. -- Putting asunder: changing perceptions of marriage and personhood in the early-twentieth century United States / Christine Rosen -- "What kind of people are we?" The United States and the truth and reconciliation idea / Richard H. King.

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