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Undomesticated Dissent: Democracy and the Public Virtue of Religious Nonconformity

Undomesticated Dissent: Democracy and the Public Virtue of Religious Nonconformity

Freeman, Curtis W.

Hardcover

Literary CriticismGeneral ChristianityGeneral World History

ISBN10: 148130688X
ISBN13: 9781481306881
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Published: Jul 31 2017
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.10
Height: 1.00 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.70
Language: English

On the north end of London lies an old nonconformist burial ground named Bunhill Fields. Bunhill became the final resting place for some of the most honored names of English Protestantism. Burial outside the city walls symbolized that those interred at Bunhill lived and died outside the English body politic. Bunhill, its location declares, is the proper home for undomesticated dissenters. Among more than 120,000 graves, three monuments stand in the central courtyard: one for John Bunyan (1628-1688), a second for Daniel Defoe (1660?-1731), and a third for William Blake (1757-1827). Undomesticated Dissent asks, why these three monuments? The answer, as Curtis Freeman leads readers to discover, is an idea as vital and transformative for public life today as it was unsettling and revolutionary then. To tell the untold tale of the Bunhill graves, Freeman focuses on the three classic texts by Bunyan, Defoe, and Blake-- The Pilgrim's Progress, Robinson Crusoe, and Jerusalem--as testaments of dissent. Their enduring literary power, as Freeman shows, derives from their original political and religious contexts. But Freeman also traces the abiding prophetic influence of these texts, revealing the confluence of great literature and principled religious nonconformity in the checkered story of democratic political arrangements. Undomesticated Dissent provides a sweeping intellectual history of the public virtue of religiously motivated dissent from the seventeenth century to the present, by carefully comparing, contrasting, and then weighing the various types of dissent--evangelical and spiritual dissent (Bunyan), economic and social dissent (Defoe), radical and apocalyptic dissent (Blake).

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