George Herbert and the Business of Practical Piety - Nudging Towards God

George Herbert and the Business of Practical Piety employs contemporary nudge theory to illuminate the religious writing of George Herbert (1593-1633). Ceri Sullivan shows how Herbert's The Temple provides a compendium of techniques to support cheerful, godly thought and action, in a way which is comic, not despairing or compulsive.

List of contents

• 1: Introduction: Contracting to Act


• 2: Cleaning


• 3: Building


• 4: Conversing


• 5: Listing


• 6: Working to a Conclusion

About the author

Ceri Sullivan is Professor of English Literature at Cardiff University, and the author of several books about the literary features that structure early modern texts about religion, trade, bureaucracy, and rhetoric. She was educated at the University of Oxford, and was formerly a banking systems analyst in the City of London and an NGO worker in sub-Saharan Africa.

Summary

George Herbert and the Business of Practical Piety employs contemporary nudge theory to illuminate the religious writing of George Herbert (1593-1633). Ceri Sullivan shows how Herbert's The Temple provides a compendium of techniques to support cheerful, godly thought and action, in a way which is comic, not despairing or compulsive.

Product details

• Authors: Sullivan , Ceri Sullivan, Ceri (Professor of English Literature Sullivan, Sullivan Ceri
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.04.2024
• EAN: 9780198906810
• ISBN: 978-0-19-890681-0
• No. of pages: 224
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; History, RELIGION / History, LITERARY CRITICISM / Renaissance, History of Religion, 17th century, c 1600 to c 1699, Literary studies: general, Early modern history: c 1450/1500 to c 1700, Literary studies: c 1500 to c 1800, 16th century, c 1500 to c 1599, HISTORY / Europe / Renaissance