RT Book T1 Modes of faith: secular surrogates for lost religious belief A2 Ziolkowski, Theodore 1932-2020 LA English PP Chicago PB University of Chicago Press YR 2007 UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1655852434 AB In the decades surrounding World War I, religious belief receded in the face of radical new ideas such as Marxism, modern science, Nietzschean philosophy, and critical theology. Modes of Faith addresses both this decline of religious belief and the new modes of secular faith that took religion's place in the minds of many writers and poets. Theodore Ziolkowski here examines the motives for this embrace of the secular, locating new modes of faith in art, escapist travel, socialism, politicized myth, and utopian visions. James Joyce, he reveals, turned to art as an escape while Hermann Hesse made NO Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-272) and index. - Description based on print version record CN BL98.7 SN 9780226983660 SN 0226983668 K1 Implicit Religion : History : 20th century : Europe K1 Religion and literature : History : 20th century : Europe K1 Secularism : History : 20th century : Europe K1 European literature : History and criticism : 20th century K1 Secularism in literature K1 European literature : 20th century : History and criticism K1 Religion and literature : Europe : History : 20th century K1 Implicit Religion : Europe : History : 20th century K1 Secularism : Europe : History : 20th century K1 European literature K1 Implicit Religion K1 Religion and literature K1 Secularism K1 Religion K1 SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology of Religion K1 Criticism, interpretation, etc K1 History K1 Europe : Religion : 20th century : Europe K1 Europe : Religion : 20th century K1 Europe K1 Electronic books : Criticism, interpretation, etc : History