大統領の告白:アメリカにおける性的原罪と宗教的政治文化の伝統<br>The Art of the Public Grovel : Sexual Sin and Public Confession in America

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大統領の告白:アメリカにおける性的原罪と宗教的政治文化の伝統
The Art of the Public Grovel : Sexual Sin and Public Confession in America

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基本説明

In this history of public confession in modern America, Bauer explains why and how a type of confession that first arose among nineteenth-century evangelicals has today become the required form for any succesful public admission of wrongdoing.

Full Description

Whether you are a politician caught carrying on with an intern or a minister photographed with a prostitute, discovery does not necessarily spell the end of your public career. Admit your sins carefully, using the essential elements of an evangelical confession identified by Susan Wise Bauer in The Art of the Public Grovel, and you, like Bill Clinton, just might survive. In this fascinating and important history of public confession in modern America, Bauer explains why and how a type of confession that first arose among nineteenth-century evangelicals has today become the required form for any successful public admission of wrongdoing--even when the wrongdoer has no connection with evangelicalism and the context is thoroughly secular. She shows how Protestant revivalism, group psychotherapy, and the advent of talk TV combined to turn evangelical-style confession into a mainstream secular rite. Those who master the form--Bill Clinton, Jimmy Swaggart, David Vitter, and Ted Haggard--have a chance of surviving and even thriving, while those who don't--Ted Kennedy, Jim Bakker, Cardinal Bernard Law, Mark Foley, and Eliot Spitzer--will never really recover.
Revealing the rhetoric, theology, and history that lie behind every successful public plea for forgiveness, The Art of the Public Grovel will interest anyone who has ever wondered why Clinton is still popular while Bakker fell out of public view, Ted Kennedy never got to be president, and Law moved to Rome.

Contents

List of Illustrations vii Acknowledgements xi Introduction: From Private to Public Confession 1 Part I: The Shift toward Public Confession Chapter 1: Grover the Good, Belshazzar Blaine, and the Rapacious Woman 11 Chapter 2: In the Presence of the Elect (With the World Looking On) 22 Chapter 3: Aimee Sample McPherson and the Devil 38 Chapter 4: Confession Goes Public 56 Chapter 5: Ted Kennedy Misreads His Public 76 Part II: The Age of Public Confession Chapter 6: Jimmy Carter, Traitor to the Cause 97 Chapter 7: Jim Bakker Shoots His Allies 115 Chapter 8: Jimmy Swaggart's Model Confession 143 Chapter 9: Clinton and the Three Public Confessions 152 Chapter 10: Unaware of Change 183 Conclusion: Predictions 207 Appendixes: The Texts of the Confessions Appendix A: Edward Kennedy's Confession 221 Appendix B: Jimmy Carter's Confession of "Lust in My Heart" 225 Appendix C: Jim Bakker's Original Confession 228 Appendix D: Jimmy Swaggart's Sermon of Confession 235 Appendix E: President Clinton's Statements and Confessions 240 Appendix F: Bernard Law's Apologies 265 Notes 287 Works Cited 315 Permissions for the Texts 323 Index 325