Gilbert, James Burkhart

Redeeming culture : American religion in an age of science by James Burkhart Gilbert ( Book )
8 editions published in 1997 in English and held by 1,414 libraries worldwide
In this intriguing new work, James Gilbert examines the historical confrontation between modern science and religion as these disparate, sometimes hostile modes of thought have clashed in the arena of American culture. Beginning in 1925 with the infamous Scopes trial, Gilbert traces nearly forty years of competing American attitudes toward science and religion. From Harvard intellectuals to Hollywood, from UFOs to the USAF, from sci-fi thrillers to the nightly news, from liberal religion to Fundamentalism - American culture became a proving ground where the boundaries between science and religion were polemicized, propagandized, and contested. Ultimately, Gilbert argues, Catholics and Jews as well as Protestants were able to use the language of democracy to check the growing authority of science. They did this by appealing to American tolerance for contending views and by presenting a populist counterweight to what they portrayed as elitist claims to specialized knowledge. In the end, a kind of cultural paradox emerged in which conflicting systems of explanation were accepted, respected, and even encouraged. In Redeeming Culture, Gilbert has managed to convey not only the persistent ambiguities in American approaches to science and religion, but likewise the means by which these ambiguities continually reshape and invigorate our evolving experience.

A cycle of outrage : America's reaction to the juvenile delinquent in the 1950s by James Burkhart Gilbert ( Book )
3 editions published in 1986 in English and held by 967 libraries worldwide

Writers and partisans; a history of literary radicalism in America by James Burkhart Gilbert ( Book )
10 editions published between 1968 and 1992 in English and held by 884 libraries worldwide

Another chance : postwar America, 1945-1968 by James Burkhart Gilbert ( Book )
8 editions published between 1981 and 1986 in English and Undetermined and held by 849 libraries worldwide

Work without salvation : America's intellectuals and industrial alienation, 1880-1910 by James Burkhart Gilbert ( Book )
6 editions published in 1977 in English and held by 699 libraries worldwide

Perfect cities : Chicago's utopias of 1893 by James Burkhart Gilbert ( Book )
4 editions published between 1991 and 1993 in English and held by 665 libraries worldwide
Publisher description: In this elegant and sensitive look at the milieu of the World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, James Gilbert examines the three utopias that were designed to bring order to the chaos of urban life: The World's Fair itself, George Pullman's community for his workers, and Dwight Moody's evangelical crusade. Gilbert draws upon a rich selection of fiction, collective biography, architecture, photographs, and souvenir books to show how these experiments each acted as a middle-class prescription for coming to terms with the new cultural diversity and competition resulting from the disruptive forces of technological change, commercial enterprise, and pluralism.

Designing the industrial state; the intellectual pursuit of collectivism in America, 1880-1940 by James Burkhart Gilbert ( Book )
4 editions published in 1972 in English and held by 623 libraries worldwide

Whose fair? experience, memory, and the history of the great St. Louis Exposition by James Burkhart Gilbert ( Book )
4 editions published in 2009 in English and held by 539 libraries worldwide
Fair itineraries: experience, memory, and the history of the fair -- Making history -- Making memories -- Making images -- Mrs. Wilkins dances -- The beholder's eye: making experience -- Making identities.

Transforming faith : the sacred and secular in modern American history ( Book )
2 editions published in 1989 in English and held by 501 libraries worldwide

Men in the middle : searching for masculinity in the 1950s by James Burkhart Gilbert ( Book )
3 editions published in 2005 in English and held by 434 libraries worldwide
"While the 1950s have been popularly portrayed - on television and in the movies and literature - as a conformist and conservative age, the decade is better understood as a revolutionary time for politics, economy, mass media, and family life. Magazines, films, newspapers, and television of the day scrutinized every aspect of this changing society, paying special attention to the lifestyles of the middle-class men and their families who were moving to the suburbs newly springing up outside American cities. Much of this attention focused on issues of masculinity, both to enforce accepted ideas and to understand serious departures from the norm. Neither a period of "male crisis" nor yet a time of free experimentation, the decade was marked by contradiction and a wide spectrum of role models. This was, in short, the age of Tennessee Williams as well as John Wayne." "In Men in the Middle, James Gilbert uncovers a extensive body of literature that showcases the problems and possibilities of expressing masculinity in the 1950s. Drawing on the biographies of men who explored manhood either in their writings or in their public personas, Gilbert examines the stories of several of the most important figures of the day - revivalist Billy Graham, playwright Tennessee Williams, sociologist David Riesman, sex researcher Alfred Kinsey, Playboy literary editor Auguste Comte Spectorsky, and TV-sitcom dad Ozzie Nelson - and allows us to see beyond the inherited stereotypes of the time. Each of these stories, in Gilbert's hands, adds crucial dimensions to our understanding of masculinity in the 1950s. No longer will this era be seen solely in terms of the conformist man in the gray flannel suit or the Marlboro Man."--BOOK JACKET.