Religious Melancholy and Protestant Experience in America
Series: Religion in America;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 24 March 1994
- ISBN 9780195083019
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages320 pages
- Size 244x162x25 mm
- Weight 581 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Rubin presents a history of `religious melancholy' among American evangelicals, focusing on the period 1740-1850.
MoreLong description:
This original examination of the spiritual narratives of conversion in the history of American Protestant evangelical religion reveals an interesting paradox. Fervent believers who devoted themselves completely to the challenges of making a Christian life, who longed to know God's rapturous love, all too often languished in despair, feeling forsaken by God. Ironically, those most devoted to fostering the soul's maturation neglected the well-being of the psyche. Drawing upon many sources, including unpublished diaries and case studies of patients treated in nineteenth-century asylums, Julius Rubin's fascinating study thoroughly explores religious melancholy--as a distinctive stance toward life, a grieving over the loss of God's love, and an obsession and psychopathology associated with the spiritual itinerary of conversion. The varieties of this spiritual sickness include sinners who would fast unto death ("evangelical anorexia nervosa"), religious suicides, and those obsessed with unpardonable sin. From colonial Puritans like Michael Wigglesworth to contemporary evangelicals like Billy Graham, among those who directed the course of evangelical religion and of their followers, Rubin shows that religious melancholy has shaped the experience of self and identity for those who sought rebirth as children of God.
is a masterly piece of research. All credit must go to Julius H Rubin for the way he has marshalled his evidence to validate his thesis. This evidence consists of well documented historical biography and autobiography, unpublished diaries, fascinating case studies of patients treated in nineteenth century asylums and other material old and new that he has carefully unearthed ... In the course of working through his main theme Ward offers fascinating observations on all sorts of topics ... thus displaying his considerable expertise in philosophy and logic as well as in theology ... This book is thoroughly recommended as the fertile thoughts of one of Britain's most prodigious and profound theological and philosophical Christian minds writing today.
