Veneration and Revolt

Barry Stephenson teaches in the Department of Religion and Culture at Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, ON, and conducts research in religion, and literature and ritual studies. He is presently completing a book and DVD on Luther-themed festivity and religious tourism in Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany.

• Veneration and Revolt: Hermann Hesse and Swabian Pietism by Barry Stephenson MomaniPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Hermann Hesse: The Missionary's SonPart I: ContextsPietism: A First GlanceThe Swabian MandarinsThe Maulbronn AffairRomantics and Pietists Part II: Setting OutHesse's ""Religion of Art""Peter Camenzind: Rejection of AestheticismBeneath the Wheel: The Anti-School NovelDemian: Chiliastic Vision War, Church, and StatePart III: Turning BackSiddhartha: Swabian Mysticism ""Breaking the Will""Steppenwolf: ""The Hell of Myself""Narcissus and Goldmund: ReconciliationPart IV: Coming HomeThe Journey to the East: Narrating a Life/HistoryJoseph Knecht and The Glass Bead Game: Spiritual HeritageConclusionNotesBibliography Index

"The enormous commentary on Hesse rarely takes this Pietist context seriously, but according to Stephenson, it is impossible to understand Hesse without understanding Pietism.... Stephenson's argument is compelling and its implications are striking.... Clearly and engagingly written, thoroughly rooted in Hesse's work and the vast commentary on Hesse, Stephenson's book is a fine general introduction to Hesse, as well as a powerful argument about the roots of Hesse's art. An important contribution to Hesse studies, Veneration and Revolt also contributes significantly to the ongoing debate about the origins, meanings, and trajectories of modernity." -- Robert Weldon Whalen, Queens University of Charlotte -- German Studies Review, 34/3, 2011, 201111