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• W349340381 abstract "Many humanists and liberals who supported war against Osama bin Laden and Taliban and even, initially, 2003 invasion of Iraq also might have called self a standard of underpinning Western democracy, whose values of individual rights and civil liberties were threat from Al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein. (In fact, such a case has been made by British leftist/atheist commentator Christopher Hitchens.) Yet, according to Bloom, first Bush implied different and was heard differently by practitioners of what Bloom terms Religion. The first Gulf War, in Bloom's view, was not understood by President and these practitioners as being about human rights or even about oil. Rather, Bloom claims, concept of self's status and function as true standard of actually refers to a deeper and more radical view of self that defines what Bloom calls Religion and marks emergence of what he terms a post-Christian nation. The core belief of America Religion, Bloom asserts, unites sects whose surface differences might seem irreconcilable Southern Baptists, Mormons, Seventh-Day Adventists, Pentacostalists, Christian Scientists, and African American churches, among others. What they hold in common, according to Bloom, is an understanding of soul, or something deeper than soul, Real Me or self or spark ... made free to be utterly alone with a God who is also quite separate and solitary ... This spark, this true Adam is as old as God, older than Bible, and is free of time, unstained by morality, linked to solitude of American individual, a state of being that Bloom identifies as American spiritual quest for gnosis, a mystical knowing of an eternal self and/with God to be found in the primal Abyss, named by ancient Gnostics as both our foremother and our forefather (30). The Gnostic emphasis on individual knowing merges, for Bloom, with American cult of self-reliance. As he put is in one of his typical overgeneralizations, No American pragmatically feels free if she is not alone, and no American ultimately concedes that she is part of nature (15). Thus, one of most visible signs of American Religion, revival experience, is the perpetual shock of individual discovering yet again what she and he always have known, which is that God loves her and him on an absolutely personal and indeed intimate basis (17). Lest we object that groups Bloom singles out as representative of American Religion, for all their recent rapid growth (at least in case of Southern Baptists and Mormons), still collectively a small minority of American population, Bloom extends his definition to claim that supposedly Methodists and Catholics, as well as Jews and Muslims, are also more Gnostic than normative in their deepest and unwariest beliefs. ... [E]ven our secularists [and] atheists more Gnostic than humanist in their ultimate presuppositions. We a religiously mad culture, furiously searching for ... original self, a spark or breath in us that we convinced goes back to before Creation (22). The astonishing sweep of Bloom's claim that almost purely experiential (37) is embedded in all belief systems named above, coupled with his apparent oxymoron that Biblical Christianity, like Judaism before it, is not a biblical religion (245) makes one wonder if he can name any religions at all. Bloom's book is often maddeningly vague and contradictory in its broad assertions, too often substituting repetition of cant phrases for sustained argument; nonetheless, he does seem to be on to in describing an aspect of American culture often noted by observers, foreign and domestic, over last two centuries: A of self burgeons, Bloom claims, under many names, and seeks to know its own inwardness, in isolation. …" @default.
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• W349340381 title "The American Religion and All That Mumbo-Jumbo: The Gnostic, the A-Gnostic and the Pagan in American Literature" @default.
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