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291 --- Godsdienstwetenschap: vergelijkend --- Religion and culture --- United States --- Religion --- Religion. --- America --- religion --- cultural studies --- religious history --- media --- religion and culture --- asceticism --- spiritualism

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Between the Civil War and World War I the United States underwent the most rapid economic expansion in history. At the same time, the country experienced unparalleled rates of immigration. In The Rise of Multicultural America, Susan Mizruchi examines the convergence of these two extraordinary developments. No issue was more salient in postbellum American capitalist society, she argues, than the country's bewilderingly diverse population. This era marked the emergence of Americans' self-consciousness about what we today call multiculturalism.Mizruchi approaches this complex development from the

American literature --- Capitalism --- Cultural pluralism --- Cultural diversity --- Diversity, Cultural --- Diversity, Religious --- Ethnic diversity --- Pluralism (Social sciences) --- Pluralism, Cultural --- Religious diversity --- Culture --- Cultural fusion --- Ethnicity --- Multiculturalism --- Market economy --- Economics --- Profit --- Capital --- History and criticism. --- Social aspects --- History. --- Economic aspects --- History --- United States --- Intellectual life --- Race relations --- Emigration and immigration --- Economic conditions --- 19th century --- 20th century --- America --- 1865-1918 --- History and criticism

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“This is an exciting book, one that many of us in humanities research (and book history) have been hoping to see. This collection persuasively explores the issues of digitized knowledge, access, and preservation in the widest scope, across nations as well as disciplines, libraries as well as academic departments. It offers a richly multinational and cross-cultural perspective on these issues by exploring them across borders and continents. Mizruchi’s collection brings together leading scholars in book and reading history, and digital humanities, with front-line scholars in library and information sciences to provide a unique combination of academic and curatorial expertise. I don’t know of any book that offers such a convincing combination of specialties--let alone a book that will be so readable across many categories of intellectual life. The book is beautifully conceived, interleaving through the essays its topics of print and digital, libraries and visual or other non-text archives, and overlapping professional agendas among academics, librarians, and digital specialists.” — Prof Jon Klancher, Carnegie Mellon University, USA “These authors present the case for the vitality and urgency of new forms and models of public libraries and archives, open access and the transmission of cultural and community assets, embracing the digital as essential rather than threat.” --David Leonard, President, Boston Public Library, USA The role of archives and libraries in our digital age is one of the most pressing concerns of humanists, scholars, and citizens worldwide. This collection brings together specialists from academia, public libraries, governmental agencies, and non-profit archives to pursue common questions about value across the institutional boundaries that typically separate us. Susan L. Mizruchi is the William Arrowsmith Professor in the Humanities, Director of the Humanities Center, and Professor of English at Boston University. Her books include Brando’s Smile (2014), The Rise of Multicultural America (2008), and The Science of Sacrifice (1998). She has received many academic honors, including fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the Huntington Library, the Fulbright Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. .

Library management --- Library automation --- Book history --- Philosophy --- Philosophy and psychology of culture --- Higher education --- History as a science --- HO (hoger onderwijs) --- historiografie --- bibliotheekautomatisering --- cultuur --- humanisme --- bibliotheekwezen --- boeken

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Americans have never been more religious than they are now, at the dawn of the twenty-first century. By all reports, attendance rates at traditional places of worship are high and rising; the influx of new immigrant religions has revitalized standard faiths and drawn in those who had strayed from them. Popular television shows like "The Simpsons" feature characters who go to church every Sunday and speak to God; special events, like the 1998 outdoor mass in Worcester, Massachusetts, for a comatose girl believed to have miraculous powers, attract thousands of people. This collection is both part of this ferment and an intellectual reflection upon it. Religion and Cultural Studies features essays by major scholars from the fields of anthropology, history, literary criticism, and religion in order to enrich critical discourse about religion and culture. Despite the variety of disciplines represented by this group of scholars and the variety of cultures explored in their essays--from fifteenth-century Flemish asceticism and nineteenth-century African-American spiritualism to Russian blood-libel trials and Alien Abduction Reports in the twentieth century--their common ground is the question of religion's place in current American academic analysis, and more broadly in American life today. The volume's range of vocabulary and subject matter is aimed at vitalizing scholarly interest in the field of religion and cultural studies and deepening intellectual inquiry in the contemporary academy. The contributors are Eytan Bercovitch, Karen McCarthy Brown, Gillian Feeley-Harnik, Richard Wightman Fox, Jenny Franchot, Giles Gunn, Geoffrey Galt Harpham, Bruce B. Lawrence, Jack Miles, Susan L. Mizruchi, and Jonathan Z. Smith.

Religion and culture --- Religion and culture. --- United States --- Religion. --- Abraham. --- Acosta, Jose. --- Alexander the Great. --- Appadurai, Arjun. --- Aristotle. --- Arnold, Matthew. --- Bachelard, Gaston. --- Barthes, Roland. --- Bellah, Robert. --- Bhabha, Homi. --- Bradford, William. --- Brown, John. --- Cameron, William. --- Carver, Raymond. --- Castells, Manuel. --- Chance, David. --- Comstock, Anthony. --- Cooper, James Fenimore. --- Cunningham, Merce. --- Day, Dorothy. --- Delbanco, Andrew. --- Diamond, Jared. --- Doctor, Laura Parker. --- Duden, Barbara. --- Eagleton, Terry. --- Eastman, Max. --- Eliot, George. --- Emerson, Ralph Waldo. --- Euclid. --- Falk, Candace. --- Fiedler, Leslie. --- Flaubert, Gustave. --- Fraser, Nancy. --- Frye, Northrup. --- Gaylin, Willard. --- Goldman, Emma. --- Greeley, Horace. --- Hall, David. --- Hawthorne, Nathaniel. --- Hill, Barney. --- Homer. --- Ingold, Tim. --- Jameson, Fredric. --- Jones, William. --- Kern, Stephen. --- Klaw, Spencer. --- Kuspit, Donald. --- Lawrence, Peter. --- Masuzawa, Tomoko. --- Morgan, Alfred Gray. --- Morrison, Toni. --- Nash, June C. --- Noah.

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