Description - The Delight Makers: Anglo-American Metaphysical Religion and the Pursuit of Happiness by Catherine L. Albanese
An ambitious history of desire in American religion across over three centuries.
The pursuit of happiness weaves disparate strands of American religious history together. In The Delight Markers, Catherine L. Albanese unravels a theology of desire tying Jonathan Edwards to Ralph Waldo Emerson to the religiously unaffiliated today. As others emphasize redemptive suffering, this tradition stresses the “metaphysical” connection between natural beauty and spiritual fulfillment. In the earth’s abundance, these thinkers see an expansive God intent on fulfilling human desire through prosperity, health, and sexual freedom. Through careful readings of Cotton Mather, Andrew Jackson Davis, William James, Esther Hicks, and more, Albanese reveals how a theology of delight evolved alongside political overtures to natural law and individual liberty in the United States.
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