The Delight Makers

An ambitious history of desire in Anglo-American religion across three centuries.   The pursuit of happiness weaves disparate strands of Anglo-American religious history together. In The Delight Makers , Catherine L. Albanese unravels a theology of desire tying Jonathan Edwards to Ralph Waldo Emerson to the religiously unaffiliated today. As others emphasize redemptive suffering, this tradition stresses the “metaphysical” connection between natural beauty and spiritual fulfillment. In the e