Undomesticated Dissent: Democracy and the Public Virtue of Religious Nonconformity

What Freeman gives us in this book is a biography of the cultural phenomenon of Dissent as a form of aesthetic political theology. Because Freeman, via his subtitle, is setting out to commend 'Democracy and the Public Virtue of Religious Nonconformity', his biography is extended across gen...

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Published inBunyan Studies no. 22; pp. 147 - 152
Main Author Draycott, Andy
Format Book Review
LanguageEnglish
Published Newcastle Upon Tyne Northumbria University, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences 01.01.2018
Subjects
Aesthetics
Allusion
Biographies
Blake, William (1757-1827)
Bunyan, John (1628-1688)
Christians
Conversation
Defoe, Daniel (1660-1731)
Democracy
Eschatology
Exegesis & hermeneutics
Freeman, Curtis W
Logic
Missionaries
Narrative techniques
Narratives
Nonfiction
Pedagogy
Politics
Readers
Religion
Religious missions
Subtitles & subtitling
Theology
Trends
Myanmar (Burma)
Israel
Jerusalem Israel
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Summary:What Freeman gives us in this book is a biography of the cultural phenomenon of Dissent as a form of aesthetic political theology. Because Freeman, via his subtitle, is setting out to commend 'Democracy and the Public Virtue of Religious Nonconformity', his biography is extended across generations as in a family tree or genealogy. Freeman pairs The Pilgrim's Progress with future Protestant missionary expansion that opens up freedom narratives to local populations. [...]he draws William Blake's Jerusalem into conversation not so much with one figure but rather with trends of contemporary social and environmental critique of capitalism. The narrative points to the hospitable practices of an ideal non-conforming Christian congregation, like Martin Luther King Jr.'s 'beloved community', even if the doctrinal diversity represented in setting Bunyan's theology alongside Blake's is also the weakness of the call for Dissent to be the grounds of virtue.
ISSN:0954-0970