Ted A. Smith

The New Measures

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The New Measures: A Theological History of Democratic Practice brings thick cultural history to contemporary debates about religion and democracy. Combining histories of performance, space, institutions, and ideas, the book tells the story of the 'new measures' that circulated in the religious revivals of the 1820s and ‘30s and traces the role of these practices in the development of democratic culture in the United States. The book borrows resources from Walter Benjamin and Theodor Adorno to remember the new measures from an eschatological point of view. That eschatological perspective holds together close empirical studies and explicitly th… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-521-87131-0
EAN: 9780521871310
Produktnummer: 2632412
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
Seitenangabe: 358 S.
Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.7 cm x D2.5 cm 703 g
Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
Gewicht: 703

Über den Autor

Ted A. Smith is Assistant Professor of Ethics and Preaching as well as the director of the Program in Theology and Practice at the Vanderbilt University Divinity School He is co-author, along with Thomas G. Long, of an upcoming book on the history of preaching in the United States.