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

Shapiro, Stephen/ Barnard, Philip

Bloomsbury Academic（2018/08発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 192 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781350081628
• DDC分類 813.52

Full 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.

Contents

Acknowledgements

Part A: Methods
1) Modernism and the Capitalist World-System: Williams, Wallerstein, Foucault
2) Combined and Uneven Development: World-System Dynamics

Part B: Modernisms
3) Pentecostalism and the Protolanguage of Racial Equality
4) Lovecraft, Race, and Pulp Modernism
5) Afterword: Social Gospel

Bibliography
Index