The second of two volumes on the relationship between popular religion and the self-help tradition in American culture, this book continues chronologically where the first left off. As with the first volume, this work focuses on the intersection of American history and popular religion and is intended as an introductory interpretive guide to major self-help figures and movements with origins in popular religious movements. This volume spans from Romanticism, the Gilded Age, and the history of Christian Science, with discussions of Mary Baker Patterson, Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, and Mary Baker Eddy, through Norman Vincent Peale and Robert Schuller. Peale and Schuller, with the exception of Evangelist Billy Graham, constitute the public face of mainstream American Protestantism and bring this two-volume study to its conclusion in the second half of the 20th century.
This reference will serve as a valuable research tool for American religion and popular culture scholars. Together with the first volume, Self-Help and Popular Religion in Early American Culture, these two meticulously researched volumes clearly define and present the broad scope of the self-help tradition as it pervades American culture and as it developed and was influenced by popular religion. An extensive bibliography is included.
The second of two volumes on the relationship between popular religion and the self-help tradition in American culture, this book continues chronologically where the first left off. As with the first volume, this work focuses on the intersection of American history and popular religion and is intended as an introductory interpretive guide to major self-help figures and movements with origins in popular religious movements. This volume spans from Romanticism, the Gilded Age, and the history of Christian Science, with discussions of Mary Baker Patterson, Phineas Parkhurst Quimby, and Mary Baker Eddy, through Norman Vincent Peale and Robert Schuller. Peale and Schuller, with the exception of Evangelist Billy Graham, constitute the public face of mainstream American Protestantism and bring this two-volume study to its conclusion in the second half of the 20th century.
This reference will serve as a valuable research tool for American religion and popular culture scholars. Together with the first volume, Self-Help and Popular Religion in Early American Culture, these two meticulously researched volumes clearly define and present the broad scope of the self-help tradition as it pervades American culture and as it developed and was influenced by popular religion. An extensive bibliography is included.
The second of two volumes on the relationship between popular religion and the self-help tradition in American culture, this book continues chronologically and spans from Romanticism and the Gilded Age through Norman Vincent Peale and Robert Schuller.
Introduction
Romanticism, the Gilded Age, and the History of Christian
Science
The Power of Positive Thought: Norman Vincent Peale and Robert
Schuller
An Heir to Peale: Robert Schuller and a Career of Possibility
Bibliography
ROY M. ANKER teaches English and Film at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In addition to many scholarly and popular essays, he edited and co-wrote Dancing in the Dark: Youth, Popular Culture, and Electronic Media (1991).
?Anker...provide[s] an important starting point for further
research into the connection between popular religion and self-help
traditions....[This book] will provide a reliable resource for
those who take up various facets of this project.?-The Journal of
Religion
?Libraries with good collections on the topics mentioned might well
include Anker's works for their review of relevant secondary
sources.?-Choice
"Anker...provideÝs¨ an important starting point for further
research into the connection between popular religion and self-help
traditions....ÝThis book¨ will provide a reliable resource for
those who take up various facets of this project."-The Journal of
Religion
"Libraries with good collections on the topics mentioned might well
include Anker's works for their review of relevant secondary
sources."-Choice
"Anker...provide[s] an important starting point for further
research into the connection between popular religion and self-help
traditions....[This book] will provide a reliable resource for
those who take up various facets of this project."-The Journal of
Religion
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