Religious Perspectives in American Culture: Volume 2 of the Four Volume Religion in American Life

1962 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 212
Author(s):  
Ephraim Margolin
Keyword(s):  
American Culture ◽  
Culture Volume ◽  
American Life ◽  
Religious Perspectives

Four

2020 ◽  
pp. 75-102
Author(s):  
Bruno Maçães
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Death Penalty ◽  
Political Correctness ◽  
Alternative Explanation ◽  
American Culture ◽  
The United States ◽  
Love Affair ◽  
American Life ◽  
American Experience ◽  
Traditional Structures

This chapter assesses whether America deserves to be placed alongside those Asian societies which, for all their progress, remain more or less shackled by tradition. The United States has been for more than a hundred years the very image of modernity. In the postwar decades, it appealed to European intellectuals such as Sartre on account of its deracinated life. The music, the literature, the architecture of those years were an extravaganza of countercultural passion, breaking with every convention. If people now feel that Americans are after all too conventional, there is reason to suspect that something else is happening and that their love affair with religion, guns, and the death penalty is to be explained from sources other than the persistence of traditional structures. The chapter offers an alternative explanation, looking in turn at these three peculiarities of American culture. It also considers an element of contemporary American life where differences with an older European sensibility seem clear enough: political correctness. Ultimately, one can see that a distinctive mark cuts across American experience as a whole, becoming more visible in those areas where it breaks away from its European past. One may call it the marker of a new civilization.

New Times, New Challenges

2012 ◽  
Vol 106 (1) ◽  
pp. 4
Keyword(s):  
American Culture ◽  
Traditional Practices ◽  
Half Century ◽  
American Life ◽  
New Process ◽  
The World ◽  
New Ideas ◽  
New Challenges ◽  
Changing World

In The World Is Flat (2005), Thomas Friedman sounded an alarm across American culture with his concise portrayal of a rapidly changing world that will directly challenge many traditional practices of American life-in everything from business to education. In many ways, Friedman's twenty-firstcentury siren is an extension of Albert Einstein's postulate of more than a half century earlier: “We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” Both Friedman and Einstein insist that new times and new challenges require new ideas, relentless analysis, and constant readjustment; in this way, we can ensure that any new process delivers what we need it to.

scholarly journals Understanding American Values Through Emerson’s Self-Reliance

IdeBahasa ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 95-104
Author(s):  
Rudy
Keyword(s):  
American Culture ◽  
Hard Work ◽  
American Life ◽  
American Values ◽  
Self Reliance ◽  
The World ◽  
American Romanticism ◽  
American Society ◽  
The Impact

The study focuses on the influence of one of the prominent figures in American romanticism, Ralph Emerson. By applying the Hall’s Theory of Representation this study intends to identify the role of Self-Reliance in American culture and the impact of Emerson’s philosophy toward American life And now people all over the world have recognized his work Self-Reliance (1841) as the inspiration in many aspects of life. His hard work, ethical teaching and spirit have become the most important ideas in shaping independent American society. Through his literary works, Emerson has conveyed important messages to the world on shaping personalities.

A Communion of Shadows

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel McBride Lindsey
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Civil War ◽  
American Culture ◽  
Religious Life ◽  
Religious Practice ◽  
Gold Rush ◽  
Holy Land ◽  
American Life ◽  
Vernacular Photography ◽  
Spirit Photography

When the revolutionary technology of photography erupted in American culture in 1839, it swiftly became, in the day’s parlance, a “mania.” This richly illustrated book positions vernacular photography at the center of the study of nineteenth-century American religious life. As an empirical tool, photography captured many of the signal scenes of American life, from the gold rush to the bloody battlefields of the Civil War. But photographs did not simply display neutral records of people, places, and things; rather, commonplace photographs became inscribed with spiritual meaning, disclosing, not merely signifying, a power that lay beyond. Rachel McBride Lindsey demonstrates that what people beheld when they looked at a photograph had as much to do with what lay outside the frame--theological expectations, for example--as with what the camera had recorded. Whether studio portraits tucked into Bibles, postmortem portraits with locks of hair attached, “spirit” photography, stereographs of the Holy Land, or magic lanterns used in biblical instruction, photographs were curated, beheld, displayed, and valued as physical artifacts that functioned both as relics and as icons of religious practice. Lindsey’s interpretation of “vernacular” as an analytic introduces a way to consider anew the cultural, social, and material reach of religion.

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