Synopses & Reviews
Review
"A further exploration into religious and more broadly cultural matters by the distinguished literacy critic. Bloom analyzes the tenets, the history, the moral postures of a number of distinctively American religious forms (from the Mormon Church to Billy Graham to Christian Science). He suggests that these and other phenomena involve a rampant, all-absorbing concern with the self and a concomitant denial of community and moral obligation." Reviewed by Daniel Weiss, Virginia Quarterly Review (Copyright 2006 Virginia Quarterly Review)