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Erich Fromm, Psychoanalysis and Religion, Bantam, 1950,22.
Mircea Eliade, esp. The Sacred and the Profane, Harcourt & Brace,
1959.
As Alan Watts, The Book, Collier, 1965.
Will Herberg, Protestant, Catholic, Jew: An Essay in American
Religious Sociology, Doubleday, 1955.
H. Richard Niebuhr, e.g. Radical Monotheism and Western Culture,
Harper Torchbook, 1960, 26-7.
Robert N. Bellah, et al.. Habits of the Heart: Individualism and
Commitment in American Life, Harper & Row, 1985, and The Good
Society, Knopf, 1991. Phillip E. Hammond, Religion and Personal
Autonomy: The Third Disestablishment in America, South Carolina,
1992.
See further "Forum: Sources of Personal Identity: Religion, Ethnicity,
and the American Cultural Situation," by Robert Wuthnow, Martin E.
Marty, Philip Gleason, and Deborah Dash Moore, in Religion and
American Culture, 2.1 (Winter 1992), 1-22.
Ninian Smart, The World's Religions, Prentice-Hall, 1989, 10-21.
The resonance of Tom Wolfe's famous line among Americans may
simply suggest a feature of our nation's "general culture" for the
fashionable. Even so, might it not be a late ripple of "the frontier"
impact on the national psyche-the desire for, and belief in the
possibility of, continual new beginnings?
For more on the physical sources of its culture, see my "New Orleans:
An Unamerican Place and its Physical Spirits," Studies in Popular
Culture XVI:1 (Oct 1993).
For validation and further understanding of this, I am grateful to my
Montclair State and religion studies colleague of recent years, Frank
Kokuma.
In "Zulu Zion," pt. 10 of The Long Search, the 13-part BBC series of
1976-77 narrated by Ron Eyre, advised by Ninian Smart.
See Michae l P. Smith, both his multimedia presentation at the Toronto
(Mar 1990) Popular Culture Association, 'Traditional AfricanAmerican Freedom Celebrations in New Orleans," and his book. Spirit
World: Pattern in the Expressive Folk Culture of Afro-American New
Orleans, New Orleans Urban Folklife Association, 1984.
S. Frederick Starr, "New Orleans," The Wilson Quarterly IX.2 (Spring
1985), 159-60.
For a stunning live introduction to Toussaint and the departed Tuts
Washington and Professor Longhair (hail and farewell, Fess), see