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03586aam a2200373 i 4500 001 D0C3BB14DAE011E39FFAC3B9DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20190228010452 008 131230s2014 nyu 000 0 eng 010 $a 2013037085 020 $a 9780385521468 (ebk.) 020 $a 0385521464 (ebk.) 020 $a 0385518811 (hbk) 020 $a 9780385518819 (hbk) 035 $a (OCoLC)150379178 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d IG# $d BTCTA $d BAKER $d YDXCP $d OCLCO $d TLE $d CUT $d HF9 $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a BR516 $b .B667 2014 100 1 $a Bottum, Joseph 245 14 $a An anxious age : $b the Post-Protestant ethic and spirit of America / $c Joseph Bottum. 250 $a First Edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Image Books, $c [2014] 300 $a xxii, 296 pages ; $c 25 cm 505 0 $a The poster children and the Protestant perplex -- The swallows of Capistrano and the Catholic conundrum. 520 $a We live in a profoundly spiritual age--but in a very strange way, different from every other moment of our history. Huge swaths of American culture are driven by manic spiritual anxiety and relentless supernatural worry. Radicals and traditionalists, liberals and conservatives, together with politicians, artists, environmentalists, followers of food fads, and the chattering classes of television commentators: America is filled with people frantically seeking confirmation of their own essential goodness. We are a nation desperate to stand on the side of morality--to know that we are righteous and dwell in the light. Or so Joseph Bottum argues in An Anxious Age, an account of modern America as a morality tale, formed by its spiritual disturbances. And the cause, he claims, is the most significant and least noticed historical fact of the last fifty years: the collapse of the Mainline Protestant churches that were the source of social consensus and cultural unity. Our dangerous spiritual anxieties, broken loose from the churches that once contained them, now madden everything in American life. Updating The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism, Max Weber's sociological classic, An Anxious Age undertakes two case studies in contemporary social class, adrift in a nation without the religious understandings that gave it meaning. Looking at the college-educated elite he calls "The Poster Children," Bottum sees the post-Protestant heirs of the old Mainline Protestant domination of culture: dutiful descendants who claim the high social position of their Christian ancestors even while they reject their ancestors' Christianity. Turning to "The Swallows of Capistrano," the Catholics formed by the pontificate of John Paul II, Bottum evaluates the early victories--and later defeats--of the attempt to substitute Catholicism for the dying Mainline voice in public life. Sweeping across American intellectual and cultural history, An Anxious Age traces the course of national religion and warns about the strange angels and even stranger demons with which we now wrestle. Insightful and contrarian, wise and unexpected, An Anxious Age ranks among the great modern accounts of American culture. -- Provided by publisher. 651 0 $a United States $x Church history $y 20th century. 650 0 $a Christianity and politics $z United States $x History $y 20th century. 941 $a 3 952 $l CZPD706 $d 20191018010433.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20160826091349.0 952 $l PRAX771 $d 20140513160520.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D0C3BB14DAE011E39FFAC3B9DAD10320 994 $a Z0 $b IODInitiate Another SILO Locator Search