Pentecostal modernism : Lovecraft, Los Angeles and world-systems culture / Stephen Shapiro and Philip Barnard.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Cover; Half Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; PART A Methods; 1 Modernism and the capitalist world-system: Williams, Wallerstein, Foucault; 1. The cultural history of modernism needs to include that of religious movements; 2. Modernism is the cultural registration of the thresholds marking new class geographies resulting from the boom period betwee; 3. The culture of modernism is neither deeply allegorical nor essentially reflective; 2 Combined and uneven development: World-system dynamics; Trotsky's initial model of combined and uneven development.

The culture of combined and uneven developmentBloch's combined and uneven historicity; PART B Modernisms; 3 Pentecostalism and the protolanguage of racial equality; The road to Azusa; Charles Fox Parham and the 1901 Topeka Revival; William J. Seymour and the Azusa Street Revival, 1906; Institutionalizing racial ecumenism; Understanding Pentecostalism and speaking-.in-.tongues; Protolanguage and semiperipheral speech; 4 Lovecraft, race, and pulp modernism; 5 Afterword: Social Gospel; Bibliography; Index.

Bringing together new accounts of the pulp horror writings of H.P. Lovecraft and the rise of the popular early 20th-century religious movements of American Pentecostalism and Social Gospel, Pentecostal Modernism challenges traditional histories of modernism as a secular avant-garde movement based in capital cities such as London or Paris. Disrupting accounts that separate religion from progressive social movements and mass culture, Stephen Shapiro and Philip Barnard construct a new Modernism belonging to a history of regional cities, new urban areas powered by the hopes and frustrations of recently urbanized populations seeking a better life. In this way, Pentecostal Modernism shows how this process of urbanization generates new cultural practices including the invention of religious traditions and mass-cultural forms.

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