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Pentecostal Modernism: Lovecraft, Los Angeles, and World-Systems Culture (New Directions in Religion and Literature)

By Stephen Shapiro , Philip Barnard

Book information

Publisher
Bloomsbury Academic
Year
2017
ISBN
9781474238731, 9781474238755, 9781474238748, 1474238734
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
13 MB (13669454 bytes)
Pages
192\193
Time added
2023-11-30 04:13:38

Description

Bringing together new accounts of the pulp horror writings of H.P. Lovecraft and the rise of the popular early 20th-century religious movements of American Pentecostalism and Social Gospel, Pentecostal Modernism challenges traditional histories of modernism as a secular avant-garde movement based in capital cities such as London or Paris. Disrupting accounts that separate religion from progressive social movements and mass culture, Stephen Shapiro and Philip Barnard construct a new Modernism belonging to a history of regional cities, new urban areas powered by the hopes and frustrations of recently urbanized populations seeking a better life. In this way, Pentecostal Modernism shows how this process of urbanization generates new cultural practices including the invention of religious traditions and mass-cultural forms.

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