An Anxious Age
by Joseph Bottum
Book Reviews
@nytdavidbrooks On how the secularized Protestantism became our current civil religion and the rise of the Elect, aka the political energized managerial elite, by @JosephBottum -- https://t.co/pcXSzwSwXJLink to Tweet
Theory: Protestantism is never created nor destroyed, it's merely converted into different forms.
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The "decent church-goin' women, with their mean, pinched, bitter, evil faces" of yesterday (to quote Burroughs), are the blue-check media crowd and institutional mandarins of today.
Recommend Bottum on the topic.
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@llunved Oh yes!
This is all sublimated Protestantism. Bottums' book 'An Anxious Age' is great on this.Link to Tweet
@rezendi It's subtle.
I recommend reading @JosephBottum's 'An Anxious Age' for how the church-going Episcopalian of the past became today's Whole Foods-shopping, BLM-sign-waving White liberal.
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Back to Protestantism: I'd never discerned the direct relationship between the bien-pensant liberalism of the Whole Foods class with the implosion of post-war Mainline Protestantism until I read @JosephBottum's excellent 'An Anxious Age'.
Recommended.
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