The Delight Makers: Anglo-American Metaphysical Religion and the Pursuit of Happiness

by Catherine L. Albanese

Book Overview

An ambitious history of desire in Anglo-American religion across three centuries.

The pursuit of happiness weaves disparate strands of Anglo-American religious history together. In The Delight Makers, 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226823547
• ISBN13: 9780226823546
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"