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Title:
The art of the public grovel : sexual sin and public confession in America
Author:
Bauer, Susan Wise, author.
ISBN:
9781400830022
9781282157422
Publication Information:
Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2008.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (x, 337 pages) : illustrations
Abstract:
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 an.
Electronic Access:
http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7rmx7Copies:
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