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Be Always Converting, Be Always Converted: An American Poetics

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Description for Be Always Converting, Be Always Converted: An American Poetics Hardback. Presents a reconceptualization of the American project of conversion that begins with the story of Henry 'Opukaha'ia, the first Hawaiian convert to Christianity. The author argues that 'Opukaha'ia's conversion is both remarkable and prototypically American, because he dared to redefine himself via this drive to rebirth. Num Pages: 336 pages, 1 halftone. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; DSB. Category: (UF) Further/Higher Education. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 30. Weight in Grams: 567.

“Be always converting, and be always converted; turn us again, O Lord,” Thomas Shepard urged his Cambridge congregation in the 1640s. This mandate coming down from American Puritan times to New Age seekers, to be “always converting, and always converted,” places a radical burden on the self as site of renewal and world-change, even as conversion becomes surrounded by deconversion (rejection of prior beliefs) and counterconversion (turns to alternative beliefs) across global modernity.

Rob Wilson’s reconceptualization of the American project of conversion begins with the story of Henry ‘Ōpūkaha‘ia, the first Hawaiian convert to Christianity, “torn from the stomach” ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674033436
SKU
V9780674033436
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1

About Rob Wilson
Rob Wilson is Professor of Literature at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

Reviews for Be Always Converting, Be Always Converted: An American Poetics
Energetic and wide-ranging.
John Eperjesi
Korea Herald
[A] sparklingly innovative treatment of Hawai’i and New England Protestants’ evangelism there in the 1800s (a reading that gains new relevance in light of the election of Barack Obama). Wilson also looks at Bob Dylan’s identification as a born-again Christian in the late 1970s, noting that it did not lead ... Read more

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