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England's secular scripture : Islamophobia and the Protestant aesthetic by Carruthers, Jo; is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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England's Secular Scripture seeks to trace English Islamophobia to its roots in England's Protestant past; and more specifically to its aesthetic and literary rooting in Protestant values. Carruthers argues that English antagonism towards Islam lies in part in the formation of English identities in early modern Reformation Protestantism. The book traces the transposing; and secularizing; of Reformation doctrines into a 'Protestant aesthetic'; of simplicity; individualism; and rationalism in the literature of Spenser and Milton. Wordsworth; Hardy; Eliot and Orwell; among others; perpetuate this aesthetic; one that continues to shape English mythologies up to the present day. Carruthers sheds light on contemporary Islamophobia; helping us to understand that Englishness is not merely a secular identity (combating what is seen as an irrational fundamentalist identity); but one informed; paradoxically; by Protestant logic and history.

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Author

Carruthers, Jo;

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing; Continuum

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9780826433213

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Fiction