Ebook {Epub PDF} The American Religion by Harold Bloom

 · Thursday 06/11/Professor Harold Bloom of Yale University and New York University shares his book examining religion and spirituality indigenous to Americ. In this fascinating work of religious criticism, Harold Bloom examines a number of American-born faiths: Pentecostalism, Mormonism, Seventh-day Adventism, Christian Science, Jehovah's Witnesses, Southern Baptism and Fundamentalism, and African American spirituality. He traces the distinctive features of American religion while asking provocative questions about the role religion plays in . In this fascinating work of religious criticism ( edition, with a new Afterword by the author), Harold Bloom examines a number of American-born faiths: Pentecostalism, Mormonism, Seventh-day Adventism, Christian Science, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Southern Baptism and Fundamentalism, and African American spirituality.4/5(31).

By Harold Bloom. uring the 19th century, Americans were obsessed with religion. Evangelical Protestantism shaped the soul of the nation, but on the fringes of society many new denominations emerged, under the leadership of such visionaries as Joseph Smith (Mormonism), Mary Baker Eddy (Christian Science) and Ellen White (Seventh-day Adventism. The core of the American Religion, states Harold Bloom, is Gnostic, Enthusiastic, Orphic and millenarian. It marks itself as Christian but it really is not. Mormons, Southern Baptists, Pentecostals, Adventists and various other expression of American faith, including the whole diversity of American Protestant groups, call themselves Christian but, in their beliefs and spirituality, are [ ]. I've known about Harold Bloom since I first read The American Religion (, ) in , but about two months ago I discovered for the first time what may be called (despite Bloom's own wishes) the spiritual successor to that previous book: Omens of Millennium: The Gnosis of Angels, Dreams, and Resurrection ().

In this fascinating work of religious criticism, Harold Bloom examines a number of American-born faiths: Pentecostalism, Mormonism, Seventh-day Adventism, Christian Science, Jehovah's Witnesses, Southern Baptism and Fundamentalism, and African American spirituality. He traces the distinctive features of American religion while asking provocative questions about the role religion plays in American culture and in each American's concept of his or her relationship to God. Bloom, Harold. Publication date Topics Examination of America's national soul identifying the American religion as a variation of Gnosticism, believers in a. In this fascinating work of religious criticism ( edition, with a new Afterword by the author), Harold Bloom examines a number of American-born faiths: Pentecostalism, Mormonism, Seventh-day Adventism, Christian Science, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Southern Baptism and Fundamentalism, and African American spirituality.