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Pentecostal Modernism: Lovecraft, Los Angeles, and World-Systems Culture (New Directions in Religion and Literature)
Pentecostal Modernism Lovecraft Los Angeles and WorldSystems Culture - New Directions in Religion and Literature Author:Stephen Shapiro, Philip Barnard Bringing together new accounts of the pulp horror writings of H.P. Lovecraft and the rise of the popular early 20th-century religious movements of American Pentecostalism and Social Gospel, Pentecostal Modernism challenges traditional histories of modernism as a secular avant-garde movement based in capital cities such as London or Paris. Disrup... more »ting accounts that separate religion from progressive social movements and mass culture, Stephen Shapiro and Philip Barnard construct a new Modernism belonging to a history of regional cities, new urban areas powered by the hopes and frustrations of recently urbanized populations seeking a better life. In this way, Pentecostal Modernism shows how this process of urbanization generates new cultural practices including the invention of religious traditions and mass-cultural forms.« less