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from New Approaches to Bob Dylan, ed. Anne-Marie Mai (Odense: University of Southern Denmark, 2019) , 247-272., 2019
This paper explores four patterns, intersecting but in tension, through which Bob Dylan’s music
a... more This paper explores four patterns, intersecting but in tension, through which Bob Dylan’s music
and its reception might be analyzed as articulations of religious discourse (especially, although
not exclusively, Christian.) First is a pattern where Dylan’s probable intentions and preferred
meanings are overtly religious and the audience understands them as such, whether
sympathetically or not. Second is a converse situation where religious meanings are fairly trivial
or even absent and the audience is uninterested in any case. More fascinating are the other two
cases. In the third, religiously committed and attuned fans champion Dylan, yet there are
sometimes questions about whether they read things into the music that “aren’t really there.”
Fourth is the most slippery pattern, circling back toward the first but accenting ironies. Here
songs have key potential resonances - received in a cultural context that scholars call “Protestant
secularism”
- but listeners may or may not have ears to hear. If we get all four levels into focus,
several interesting points follow, related to how Dylan resonates (or not) for different audiences.
Most importantly it may be possible to hear - approaching case by case - more continuities across
his career, as well as more potential for counter-hegemonic cultural criticism to be articulated
through the bleak apocalyptic sensibility to which Dylan often returns.
Goff/The Blackwell Companion to Religion in America, 2010
Reviews in American History, 2014
One of the books under review here dramatizes how "God and Country" ideologies of the early Cold ... more One of the books under review here dramatizes how "God and Country" ideologies of the early Cold War gained public traction; the other shows how such ideologies lost credibility (at least for many people) across the 1960s and 1970s. One documents how mainline Protestant leaders moved toward pointed criticism of U.S. policies, after having offered broad support during the 1940s and 1950s; the other shows how government, business, and civic leaders mobilized their own religious campaigns, largely because they felt that churches were not supportive enough. Jonathan Herzog agrees with his protagonists that the Cold War was a religious conflict-a battle between godly democracy and godless communism-and seems pleased to recycle well-known evidence about his fellowcombatants, along with some new findings he adds to the discussion. He marshals his evidence with flair, and if he has one fresh idea for scholars, it is about the role of civic leaders (as opposed to church professionals) in manufacturing the crusade. For anyone who has underestimated the Cold War's religious-ideological dimensions-or, perhaps more likely, has discounted evidence about it marshaled by "mere church historians"-Herzog offers a wake-up call to reassess the weight of religious discourse amid the cultural, sociopolitical, and military factors that shaped these years. Meanwhile, Jill Gill analyzes critics of U.S. foreign policy. Like Herzog, she traverses well-charted terrain; but her intervention is somewhat fresher since scholars have lately been noticing that reports of the death of liberal Protestantism are exaggerated, and she brings interesting evidence to this discussion. Indeed, insofar as it has become fashionable to notice how a Protestant impulse
Routledge Companion to Religion and Popular Culture, 2015
multi-layered reflections on how to approach the framing the study of music aspects of music, esp... more multi-layered reflections on how to approach the framing the study of music aspects of music, especially popular music
Oxford Handbooks Online, 2012
The Edge of Reason: Science and Religion in Modern Society ed. Alex Bentley, 2008
Journal of Transnational American Studies, Feb 16, 2009
Method & Theory in the Study of Religion, 1996
Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, and the Village Voice all have recently published front-page ... more Atlantic Monthly, The New Republic, and the Village Voice all have recently published front-page articles focussed solely or in part on Cornel West (Boyn ton 1995, Wieseltier 1995, Reed 1995) Earlier this year West was profiled in The New Yorker (Berube 1995), and since the 1993 publication of his best selling Race Matters many other popular journals have discussed him (e g , Anderson 1994; White 1993) It is difficult to think of any contemporary North American intellectual with major interests in religion who commands wider public attention neither a scholar who speaks from the stand-point of religious faith nor an external analyst of religion Moreover, West blends both roles Thus his blend of neo-pragmatist philosophy and neo-Gramscian cultural analysis is an extremely important bridge between religious studies and inter-disciplinary cultural studies, and between both of these wings of the academy and the public West is among a handful of scholars regularly cited in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion as well as inter disciplinary forums such as Social Text and Critical Inquiry In addition, as
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American Quarterly, 1996
review of Paul Boyer's book on end-times religious discourse; stresses the complexity and contest... more review of Paul Boyer's book on end-times religious discourse; stresses the complexity and contested nature of this end-times discourse.
American Quarterly , 2005
review essay in American Quarterly on Jason Bivins, The Fracture of Good Order
New Labor Forum, 2007
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Reviews in American History, 2008
... On Dylan's involvement with them, see Clinton Heylin, Behind the Shades Revisited (2... more ... On Dylan's involvement with them, see Clinton Heylin, Behind the Shades Revisited (2001). ... 5.Sutton seeks to “complement and correct” books like Leo Ribuffo's The Old Christian Right: the Protestant Far Right from the Great Depression to the Cold War (1983), which he sees ...
Journal of Presbyterian History, 2001
Le present article argumente sur la maniere dont le magazine americain Christianity and Crisis a ... more Le present article argumente sur la maniere dont le magazine americain Christianity and Crisis a traite trois questions - les relations protestants-catholiques, les droits civils et la politique militaire des Etats-Unis pendant les annees 1950 et au debut des annees 1960. L'etude de la position changeante des auteurs eclaire les racines de recentes controverses chez des penseurs sociaux protestants ; et si elle ne peut resoudre les conflits entre liberaux, liberationistes et neo-conservateurs, elle aide a clarifier comment leurs conversations ont atteint l'etape en cours.
Since I am from an academic generation that is sometimes accused of being grim and humorless, and... more Since I am from an academic generation that is sometimes accused of being grim and humorless, and since choosing a depressing lyric by Bruce Springsteen as an epigraph might add to that impression, I will begin by citing a second text that performs the basic tasks I advocate in this paper that is, a combination of intellectual sophistication with an address to a wider public and significant attention to religion. I refer to Monty Python's film The Life of Brian. Recall the scene in which Brian attends Jesus 's Sermon on the Mount. Unfortunately, he only reaches the outskirts
Canadian Review of American Studies, 1992
... It is a loose alliance of historians, literary scholars, cultural analysts in the social scie... more ... It is a loose alliance of historians, literary scholars, cultural analysts in the social sciences, and others who use interdisciplinary approaches, whose general question is how to understand North American culture and society, and who encourage various approaches to cultural ...
Canadian Review of American Studies, 1992
... It is a loose alliance of historians, literary scholars, cultural analysts in the social scie... more ... It is a loose alliance of historians, literary scholars, cultural analysts in the social sciences, and others who use interdisciplinary approaches, whose general question is how to understand North American culture and society, and who encourage various approaches to cultural ...
Religion, 1998
This is a case study of how feminist discourse emerged in a key part of the U.S. Protestant acade... more This is a case study of how feminist discourse emerged in a key part of the U.S. Protestant academy, It analyzes how Christianity and Crisis, a leading Protestant journal of opinion, addressed gender and sexuality fron the 1940s to the mid-1960s. It relates this discussion to CC defense of the bourgeois family against perceived challenges, and controversies about sexual representation in the media. Although C&C's overt attention to gender and its sympathy with feminism were limited, its self-image was based or supporting underdogs against unjust forms of power. As C&C embraced 'contextual' approaches in the 1960s and debated sexual ethics, it began to conceptualize 'contexts' partly in terms of gender systems. All this was pre-feminist, but was in the background when feminism began to force itself on C&C during the late 1960s from inside and outside its core constituencies. It meant that C&C was relatively well prepared (compared with most journals of its kind) to incorporate female personnel, define 'contexts' from the standpoint of previously neglected female underdogs, and begin rethinking gender and sexuality.
American Studies analyzes a society in which more than half of the people attend church regularly... more American Studies analyzes a society in which more than half of the people attend church regularly. Political speeches invoke God s blessings; celebrities attribute their success to divine help; and popular musicians routinely use words like heaven, sin, and prayer. Pat Robertson owns the fifth-largest television network, is a major force in the Republican Party, and has seriously claimed that George Bush was complicit in a Satanic conspiracy to institute "an occult-inspired world socialist dictatorship."1 Two of the greatest leaders of the postwar African-American freedom movement, Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X, were ministers. Thirty-two percent of citizens say that they are "born-again"; 62 percent have "no doubt" that Jesus will return; and 85 percent accept the Bible as divinely inspired.2 How high do these numbers have to rise before our field treats popular religion as an integral part of United States popular culture? As a scholar trained...
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Journal of Religion, 2022
The Catholic Historical Review THIS IS MISTAKE see below
this is the title of my book published in 1999 by University of Tennessee Press.
It is study ... more this is the title of my book published in 1999 by University of Tennessee Press.
It is study of transformations in left-liberal Protestant social thought from the 1930s to 1980s focused through the left- Niebuhrian middlebrow journal called Christianity and Crisis, which became a major place where emergent forms of US liberation theologies (James Cone, Cornel West, Rosemary Reuther, etc.) were developed/debated and disseminated to liberal Protestant activists and thought leaders.
academia.edu seems to have put it here based on a review in Catholic Historical Review.
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1. featured (from among what academia.edu found) by mark hulsether
and its reception might be analyzed as articulations of religious discourse (especially, although
not exclusively, Christian.) First is a pattern where Dylan’s probable intentions and preferred
meanings are overtly religious and the audience understands them as such, whether
sympathetically or not. Second is a converse situation where religious meanings are fairly trivial
or even absent and the audience is uninterested in any case. More fascinating are the other two
cases. In the third, religiously committed and attuned fans champion Dylan, yet there are
sometimes questions about whether they read things into the music that “aren’t really there.”
Fourth is the most slippery pattern, circling back toward the first but accenting ironies. Here
songs have key potential resonances - received in a cultural context that scholars call “Protestant
secularism”
- but listeners may or may not have ears to hear. If we get all four levels into focus,
several interesting points follow, related to how Dylan resonates (or not) for different audiences.
Most importantly it may be possible to hear - approaching case by case - more continuities across
his career, as well as more potential for counter-hegemonic cultural criticism to be articulated
through the bleak apocalyptic sensibility to which Dylan often returns.
2. other essays that academia edu found by mark hulsether
3.relatively short reviews that academia.edu found by mark hulsether
It is study of transformations in left-liberal Protestant social thought from the 1930s to 1980s focused through the left- Niebuhrian middlebrow journal called Christianity and Crisis, which became a major place where emergent forms of US liberation theologies (James Cone, Cornel West, Rosemary Reuther, etc.) were developed/debated and disseminated to liberal Protestant activists and thought leaders.
academia.edu seems to have put it here based on a review in Catholic Historical Review.
and its reception might be analyzed as articulations of religious discourse (especially, although
not exclusively, Christian.) First is a pattern where Dylan’s probable intentions and preferred
meanings are overtly religious and the audience understands them as such, whether
sympathetically or not. Second is a converse situation where religious meanings are fairly trivial
or even absent and the audience is uninterested in any case. More fascinating are the other two
cases. In the third, religiously committed and attuned fans champion Dylan, yet there are
sometimes questions about whether they read things into the music that “aren’t really there.”
Fourth is the most slippery pattern, circling back toward the first but accenting ironies. Here
songs have key potential resonances - received in a cultural context that scholars call “Protestant
secularism”
- but listeners may or may not have ears to hear. If we get all four levels into focus,
several interesting points follow, related to how Dylan resonates (or not) for different audiences.
Most importantly it may be possible to hear - approaching case by case - more continuities across
his career, as well as more potential for counter-hegemonic cultural criticism to be articulated
through the bleak apocalyptic sensibility to which Dylan often returns.
It is study of transformations in left-liberal Protestant social thought from the 1930s to 1980s focused through the left- Niebuhrian middlebrow journal called Christianity and Crisis, which became a major place where emergent forms of US liberation theologies (James Cone, Cornel West, Rosemary Reuther, etc.) were developed/debated and disseminated to liberal Protestant activists and thought leaders.
academia.edu seems to have put it here based on a review in Catholic Historical Review.