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1 online resource (viii, 570 pages) |
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Print version record. |
| Summary |
Belief as upbringing, belief as social fact, belief as a species of American Christian fundamentalism: The Second is a work of nonreligious religious fiction that engages all the markers of religion, with belief as the core of a modern-day American Gothic in which a trinity of characters clash over the complex ideologies that shape politics, religion, and spirituality. The vibrant, French Canadian Chantellea woman who promotes a spirituality based on principles and not traditional dogmamust balance her rocky romance with an aspiring half-Jewish architect, the continuing embrace with her activism, and a connection to a New York organization run by a secretive anti-Semite. But, such a caustic entanglement creates a situation ripe for a devastating conclusion, as the religious more frequently lean toward evil over good, the novel's characters ultimately confronting their individual identities through the realization of just how hard it is to make belief believable. |
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Spirituality -- Fiction.
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Religion -- Fiction.
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Political science -- Fiction.
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FICTION -- General.
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Roman.
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Englisch.
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FICTION / General.
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Political science. (OCoLC)fst01069781
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Religion. (OCoLC)fst01093763
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Spirituality. (OCoLC)fst01130186
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| Genre/Form |
Fiction. (OCoLC)fst01423787
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Cooper, Alan John, 1950- Second 9781550963588 (DLC) 2013464774 (OCoLC)856726687 |
| ISBN |
9781550964066 (electronic bk.) |
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1550964062 (electronic bk.) |
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9781550964073 (electronic bk.) |
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1550964070 (electronic bk.) |
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9781550964059 (electronic bk.) |
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1550964054 (electronic bk.) |
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1322010625 (electronic bk.) |
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9781322010625 (electronic bk.) |
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