Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter One A Believing Attitude
Chapter Two "Something That is Seen, That is Wonderful": Jonathan
Edwards and the Feeling of Conviction
Chapter Three Ralph Waldo Emerson and the "Universal Impulse to
Believe"
Chapter Four William James's Uncertain Universe: Theory as Theology
in The Varieties of Religious Experience
Index
Andrea Knutson is Assistant Professor of English at Oakland University.
"Knutson has given us a powerful rethinking and cogent
reformulation of one of the main currents in American thought. This
is a fresh new take on the conversion experience with the emphasis
on experience." --Robert D. Richardson, author of William James: In
the Maelstrom of American Modernism
"Knutson writes a powerful intellectual history that foregrounds
the Puritan process of conversion in the New World and then follows
a trajectory from Jonathan Edwards, to Emerson, to, finally,
William James." --Ronald Bosco, coeditor of The Complete Works of
Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The book's strength, then, lies in its ability to marry Max
Weber's industrious Puritan to Perry Miller's ecstatic Puritan of
'the Augustinian strain' and insist that these two cohered together
at the same time - and even more, that this curious blend of
quotidian determination and openness to unknowable transcendence
marks a distinguished intellectual tradition in the United States,
one that the reader might also take up as a viable way of thinking
through
life."--Early American Literature
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