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100 1 $aBauer, S. Wise.
245 14 $aThe art of the public grovel :$bsexual sin and public confession in America /$cSusan Wise Bauer.
260 $aPrinceton :$bPrinceton University Press,$cc2008.
300 $ax, 337 p. :$bill. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [315]-322) and index.
505 0 $aGrover the good, Belshazzar Blaine, and the rapacious woman -- In the presence of the elect (with the world looking on) -- Aimee Sample McPherson and the devil -- Confession goes public -- Ted Kennedy misreads his public -- Jimmy Carter, traitor to the cause -- Jim Bakker shoots his allies -- Jimmy Swaggart's model confession -- Clinton and the three public confessions -- Unaware of change -- Conclusion: Predictions.
520 1 $a"In this history of public confession in modern America, Bauer explains why and how a type of confession that first arose among nineteenth-century evangelicals has today become the required form for any successful public admission of wrongdoing - even when the wrongdoer has no connection with evangelicalism and the context is thoroughly secular. She shows how Protestant revivalism, group psychotherapy, and the advent of talk TV combined to turn evangelical-style confession into a mainstream secular rite."--Jacket.
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650 0 $aEvangelicalism$zUnited States.
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