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Entry: Lukacs the Tory Link: http://www.takimag.com/sniperstower/article/lukacs_the_tory#28435 Post contents: Rob: what you describe as the contemplative dimension of the Christian tradition is interesting, although Lukacs (and I) would doubt that this version of Christianity ever existed in America (despite his confusing association of "medieval" with "unrestrained spiritualism"). Kurth's notion of a "Protestant Deformation" is probably closer in spirit to what Lukacs and I deplore about American religion today. You are right that these pathologies of shallow emotion and anti-traditionalism don't exclusively apply to the Religious Right; I focused on the RR because it was most relevant to Lukacs' critique of populism in the US. Sent at: 2009 01 08