Pentecostal modernism: Lovecraft, Los Angeles, and world-systems culture

"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 ba...

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Main Authors: Shapiro, Stephen 1964- (Author), Barnard, Philip 1951- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: [London] Bloomsbury Academic 2017
Series:New directions in religion and literature
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Links:https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474238762
https://doi.org/10.5040/9781474238762
Summary:"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."--Bloomsbury Publishing
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (vi, 186 Seiten)
DOI:10.5040/9781474238762