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Culture and Redemption

Religion, the Secular, and American Literature

By: Tracy Fessenden

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Culture and Redemption

Religion, the Secular, and American Literature

By: Tracy Fessenden

Many Americans wish to believe that the United States, founded in religious tolerance, has gradually and naturally established a secular public sphere that is equally tolerant of all religions--or none. Culture and Redemption suggests otherwise. Tracy Fessenden contends that the uneven separation of church and state in America, far from safeguarding an arena for democratic flourishing, has functioned instead to promote particular forms of religious possibility while containing, suppressing, or excluding others. At a moment when questions about the appropriate role of religion in public life have become trenchant as never before, Culture and Redemption radically challenges conventional depictions--celebratory or damning--of America's "secular" public sphere. Examining American legal cases, children's books, sermons, and polemics together with popular and classic works of literature from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries, Culture and Redemption shows how the vaunted secularization of American culture proceeds not as an inevitable by-product of modernity, but instead through concerted attempts to render dominant forms of Protestant identity continuous with democratic, civil identity. Fessenden shows this process to be thoroughly implicated, moreover, in practices of often-violent exclusion that go to the making of national culture: Indian removals, forced acculturations of religious and other minorities, internal and external colonizations, and exacting constructions of sex and gender. Her new readings of Emerson, Whitman, Melville, Stowe, Twain, Gilman, Fitzgerald, and others who address themselves to these dynamics in intricate and often unexpected ways advance a major reinterpretation of American writing.

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Princeton University Press

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1400837308

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Religion Around Billie Holiday

By: Tracy Fessenden

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Religion Around Billie Holiday

By: Tracy Fessenden

Soulful jazz singer Billie Holiday is remembered today for her unique sound, troubled personal history, and a catalogue that includes such resonant songs as “Strange Fruit” and “God Bless the Child.” Holiday and her music were also strongly shaped by religion, often in surprising ways. Religion Around Billie Holiday examines the spiritual and religious forces that left their mark on the performer during her short but influential life. Mixing elements of biography with the history of race and American music, Tracy Fessenden explores the multiple religious influences on Holiday’s life and sound, including her time spent as a child in a Baltimore convent, the echoes of black Southern churches in the blues she encountered in brothels, the secular riffs on ancestral faith in the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance, and the Jewish songwriting culture of Tin Pan Alley. Fessenden looks at the vernacular devotions scholars call lived religion—the Catholicism of the streets, the Jewishness of the stage, the Pentecostalism of the roadhouse or the concert arena—alongside more formal religious articulations in institutions, doctrine, and ritual performance. Insightful and compelling, Fessenden’s study brings unexpected materials and archival voices to bear on the shaping of Billie Holiday’s exquisite craft and indelible persona. Religion Around Billie Holiday illuminates the power and durability of religion in the making of an American musical icon.

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Penn State Press

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027108720X

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Culture and Redemption

Religion, the Secular, and American Literature

By: Tracy Fessenden

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Religion Around Billie Holiday

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Becoming the Math Teacher You Wish You'd Had

Ideas and Strategies from Vibrant Classrooms

By: Tracy Johnston Zager

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Becoming the Math Teacher You Wish You'd Had

Ideas and Strategies from Vibrant Classrooms

By: Tracy Johnston Zager

Ask mathematicians to describe mathematics and they' ll use words like playful, beautiful, and creative. Pose the same question to students and many will use words like boring, useless, and even humiliating. Becoming the Math Teacher You Wish You' d Had, author Tracy Zager helps teachers close this gap by making math class more like mathematics. Zager has spent years working with highly skilled math teachers in a diverse range of settings and grades and has compiled those' ideas from these vibrant classrooms into' this game-changing book. Inside you' ll find: ' How to Teach Student-Centered Mathematics:' Zager outlines a problem-solving approach to mathematics for elementary and middle school educators looking for new ways to inspire student learning Big Ideas, Practical Application:' This math book contains dozens of practical and accessible teaching techniques that focus on fundamental math concepts, including strategies that simulate connection of big ideas; rich tasks that encourage students to wonder, generalize, hypothesize, and persevere; and routines to teach students how to collaborate Key Topics for Elementary and Middle School Teachers:' Becoming the Math Teacher You Wish You' d Had' offers fresh perspectives on common challenges, from formative assessment to classroom management for elementary and middle school teachers No matter what level of math class you teach, Zager will coach you along chapter by chapter. All teachers can move towards increasingly authentic and delightful mathematics teaching and learning. This important book helps develop instructional techniques that will make the math classes we teach so much better than the math classes we took.

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Taylor & Francis

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1003839517

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America's Cheap Sleeps

By: Tracy Whitcombe

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America's Cheap Sleeps

By: Tracy Whitcombe

The essential companion for the millions of Americans who love to take road trips but hate to spend a lot on a place to lay their head. It offers thousands of detailed listings of inexpensive motels for $40 or less per night. 8 maps.

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1892975130

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The American Presidents

By: Tracy Irons-Georges

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The American Presidents

By: Tracy Irons-Georges

The 42 essays are arranged chronologically by administration. An Alphabetical List at the beginning of each volume helps readers find a particular entry. Essays range from 6 to 40 pages and each includes a sidebar on the vice president and one on the Firs

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0893562246

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9780893562243

The Puritan Origins of American Sex

Religion, Sexuality, and National Identity in American Literature

By: Tracy Fessenden,Nicholas F. Radel,Magdalena J. Zaborowska

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The Puritan Origins of American Sex

Religion, Sexuality, and National Identity in American Literature

By: Tracy Fessenden,Nicholas F. Radel,Magdalena J. Zaborowska

First Published in 2001. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

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Psychology Press

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0415926408

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Book's by Tracy Fessenden

Culture and Redemption

Culture and Redemption

Religion Around Billie Holiday

Religion Around Billie Holiday

Culture and Redemption

Culture and Redemption

Religion Around Billie Holiday

Religion Around Billie Holiday

Becoming the Math Teacher You Wish You'd Had

Becoming the Math Teacher You Wish You'd Had

America's Cheap Sleeps

America's Cheap Sleeps

The American Presidents

The American Presidents

The Puritan Origins of American Sex

The Puritan Origins of American Sex

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