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Article: The American Religion.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- July 6, 1992
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HAROLD BLOOM began his career as a professor and critic, two decades ago, by battling to put Milton and the Romantics at center stage, whence he felt they had been displaced by the high-church tea party of the Reverend T.S. Eliot. But his first cross-over hit, the best-selling Book of J, was a long religious essay in which he argued that the author of some of the Bible's best stories had been an authoress. The American Religion returns to the scene of his success.
Bloom's American religion is not any one of the religions of America, but a yearning that touches all of them, "even our secularists, indeed even our professed atheists," and he examines its ...