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sexual sin and public confession in America

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An edition of The art of the public grovel (2008)

The art of the public grovel

sexual sin and public confession in America

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  • 3 Want to read

"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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Princeton University Press
Language
English
Pages
337

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Evangelicalism, Social aspects, Presidents, Confession, Politicians, Sex scandals, Moral conditions, Social aspects of Confession, Sexual behavior, History, Sex crimes, united states, Politicians, sexual behavior, Presidents, united states, United states, moral conditions

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The art of the public grovel: sexual sin and public confession in America
2008, Princeton University Press
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Table of Contents

Grover the good, Belshazzar Blaine, and the rapacious woman
In the presence of the elect (with the world looking on)
Aimee Semple 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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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176
Library of Congress
HQ18.U5 B34 2008, HQ18.U5B34 2008

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Pagination
p. cm.
Number of pages
337

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OL21096822M
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9780691138107
LCCN
2008020570
OCLC/WorldCat
228503193
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6230638
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3277238

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