Belief and Disbelief in American LiteratureTom Paine and republican religion -- Landscape as religion: Irving, Bryant, Cooper -- Transcendentalism and Emerson -- The cosmic optimism of Walt Whitman -- The pessimism of Mark Twain -- The cosmic loneliness of Robert Frost. |
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... religion as a theme in poetry , the religious novel in the United States , and so on , and these are often valuable . But we must distinguish between information about religion , and genuine religious belief , just as we must ...
... religion as a theme in poetry , the religious novel in the United States , and so on , and these are often valuable . But we must distinguish between information about religion , and genuine religious belief , just as we must ...
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... Religion being for Paine a belief in God and the practice of moral truth , he thinks that religion can have no place for mys- tery . Mystery , for him , is a kind of pious fraud ; priesthoods have , by using the word mystery , corrupted ...
... Religion being for Paine a belief in God and the practice of moral truth , he thinks that religion can have no place for mys- tery . Mystery , for him , is a kind of pious fraud ; priesthoods have , by using the word mystery , corrupted ...
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... religion and the development of American litera- ture , it would be proper at this juncture to sketch the rich , if ... religion to the industrial proletariat in the cities and to slaves in the South ; upon the creation of new religious ...
... religion and the development of American litera- ture , it would be proper at this juncture to sketch the rich , if ... religion to the industrial proletariat in the cities and to slaves in the South ; upon the creation of new religious ...
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Tom Paine and Republican Religion | 1 |
Irving Bryant Cooper | 24 |
Transcendentalism and Emerson | 48 |
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