Confessional Crises and Cultural Politics in Twentieth-Century America revolutionizes how we think about confession and its ubiquitous place in American culture

Western culture is in a moment when wholly new kinds of personal transformations are possible, but authentic transformation requires both personal testimony and

Presents a fictionalized account of the 1831 slave revolt led by Nat Turner in Southampton County, Virginia.

The twenty-first century is characterized by the global circulation of cultures, norms, representations, discourses, and human rights claims; the arising confli

Nelsen and Guth contend that religion, or "confessional culture, " plays a powerful role in shaping European ideas about politics, attitudes toward European int