Promotional Information

The second of two volumes on the relationship between popular religion and the self-help tradition in American culture, this book continues chronologically and spans from Romanticism and the Gilded Age through Norman Vincent Peale and Robert Schuller.

Table of Contents

Introduction Romanticism, the Gilded Age, and the History of Christian Science The Power of Positive Thought: Norman Vincent Peale and Robert Schuller An Heir to Peale: Robert Schuller and a Career of Possibility Bibliography

About the Author

ROY M. ANKER teaches English and Film at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. In addition to many scholarly and popular essays, he edited and co-wrote Dancing in the Dark: Youth, Popular Culture, and Electronic Media (1991).

Reviews

?Anker...provide[s] an important starting point for further research into the connection between popular religion and self-help traditions....[This book] will provide a reliable resource for those who take up various facets of this project.?-The Journal of Religion

?Libraries with good collections on the topics mentioned might well include Anker's works for their review of relevant secondary sources.?-Choice

"Anker...provide�s� an important starting point for further research into the connection between popular religion and self-help traditions....�This book� will provide a reliable resource for those who take up various facets of this project."-The Journal of Religion

"Libraries with good collections on the topics mentioned might well include Anker's works for their review of relevant secondary sources."-Choice

"Anker...provide[s] an important starting point for further research into the connection between popular religion and self-help traditions....[This book] will provide a reliable resource for those who take up various facets of this project."-The Journal of Religion