Contents

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter Cover
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Abbreviations ix
5. Introduction: Re-enchantment, Postsecularity, and the Return of Transcendence in Western Culture 1
6. 1. The Scarlet Letter: Puritan Imagination and the Kerygmatic Power of Sin 33
7. 2. Henry James’s The Europeans: Secularity and the Descent of the Word 53
8. 3. Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby: Modernism and the Death of the Word 79
9. 4. Immanent Christianity in The Grapes of Wrath 98
10. 5. “In the Name of the Lost Father”: Postsecular Mysticism in On the Road 122
11. 6. “I Will Call Them My People”: Toni Morrison’s Postsecular Gospel of Self and Community 145
12. Conclusion: Kerygma and the Promises of Postsecular Imagination in Postmodern Times 165
13. Notes 171
14. Bibliography 209
15. Index 221