Displacing the Divine - The Minister in the Mirror of American Fiction

Informationen zum Autor Douglas Alan Walrath is Lowry Professor Emeritus of Practical Theology at Bangor Seminary. He has served as pastor! church executive! seminary professor! and church strategy consultant in the United States! Canada! and the United Kingdom. He lives in Maine. Klappentext Walrath has tracked changing patterns of belief and church participation! and his research reveals a particularly fascinating trend - portrayals of ministers in American fiction mirror changing perceptions of the Protestant church and Protestant God in American society.

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• Authors: Douglas Walrath, Douglas A Walrath, Douglas Alan Walrath
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.05.2010
• EAN: 9780231151061
• ISBN: 978-0-231-15106-1
• No. of pages: 400
• Series: Religion and American Culture; Religion and American Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; RELIGION / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology of Religion, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, Religion & beliefs, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: general, Social groups: religious groups and communities, Protestantism and Protestant Churches