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cr56n01318n	Caitlin Smith	Writing through Darkness: Doubt and Spiritual Life-Writing from Jonathan Edwards to Herman Melville	2020		.txt	text/plain	233	9	33	The authors in my dissertation approach doubt not just as a religious or philosophical problem, but as a literary one, generating a range of different poetics and different ways of reading. During this time period, the American religious landscape pluralized, expanded, and splintered dramatically, in response to both intellectual transformations—new scientific and philosophical paradigms—and changing social issues, such as growing awareness of slavery's abuses, North-South disunity among white-dominant denominations because of racism, the proliferation of new religious sects, and the rise of liberal Protestantism and early seeker-type spirituality.	cache/cr56n01318n.txt	txt/cr56n01318n.txt