Pentecostal Modernism Lovecraft, Los Angeles, And World-systems Culture
Synopsis
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.Book details
- Series:
- New Directions in Religion and Literature
- Author:
- Stephen Shapiro, Philip Barnard
- ISBN:
- 9781474238748
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781350081628
- Publisher:
- Bloomsbury Publishing
- Pages:
- N/A
- Reading age:
- Not specified
- Includes images:
- No
- Date of addition:
- 2019-01-16
- Usage restrictions:
- Copyright
- Copyright date:
- 2018
- Copyright by:
- Stephen Shapiro, Philip Barnard
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Categories:
- Horror, Language Arts, Literature and Fiction