Modernism and Religion argues that modernism participated in broader processes of religious change in the twentieth century. The new prominence accorded to immanence and immediacy in religious discourse is carried over into the modernist epiphany. Modernism became mystical. The emergence of Catholic theological modernism, human rights, Christian sociology, and philosophical personalism, which are explored here in relation to the work of David Jones, T. S. Eliot, and H.D., represented a strategic attempt on the part of diverse religious authorities to meet the challenge posed by new mysticism. Orthodoxy was itself made new in ways that resisted the secular demand that religion remain a private undertaking. Modernism and Religion presents the mechanical form and clashing registers of long poems by each of the aforementioned writers as an alternative to epiphanic modernism. Their wavering orthodoxy brings matters from which the secular had previously separated religion back once more into its purview.
| ISBN: | 9781474457231 |
| Publication date: | 1st May 2025 |
| Author: | Jamie Callison |
| Publisher: | Edinburgh University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 248 pages |
| Series: | Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture |
| Genres: |
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000 |
Modernism and Religion argues that modernism participated in broader processes of religious change in the twentieth century. The new prominence accorded to immanence and immediacy in religious discourse is carried over into the modernist epiphany. Modernism became mystical. The emergence of Catholic theological modernism, human rights, Christian sociology, and philosophical personalism, which are explored here in relation to the work of David Jones, T. S. Eliot, and H.D., represented a strategic attempt on the part of diverse religious authorities to meet the challenge posed by new mysticism. Orthodoxy was itself made new in ways that resisted the secular demand that religion remain a private undertaking. Modernism and Religion presents the mechanical form and clashing registers of long poems by each of the aforementioned writers as an alternative to epiphanic modernism. Their wavering orthodoxy brings matters from which the secular had previously separated religion back once more into its purview.
Modernism and Religion features in the following genres: Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000
Modernism and Religion is available in Paperback, Hardback
Modernism and Religion was written by Jamie Callison and published by Edinburgh University Press
Modernism and Religion has 248 pages
Yes it is part of Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernist Culture series
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