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A 15-page paper that reviews John Updike's 1975 novel entitled A Month of Sundays and examines the greed and scandal that marked the world of evangelism in the decade following its publication. The humor and ambiguity of A Month of Sundays is discussed, followed by a discussion of the practices of televangelists Oral Roberts, Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, and Jimmy Swaggart in the late 1980s. Bibliography lists 12 sources.
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of the practices of televangelists Oral Roberts, Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, and Jimmy Swaggart in the late 1980s. Bibliography lists 12 sources. LCSatire.doc Sin, Sanctimony &
Satire - John Updikes A Month of Sundays Written by Linda Canada 07/2000 Please I.
Updikes Scarlet "A" - Ambiguity "Lo, the scarlet letter which Hester wears! Ye have all shuddered at it!...But there stood one in the midst of you, at whose brand
of sin and infamy ye have not shuddered!" (Hawthorne 307). These powerful words, from Nathaniel Hawthornes classic mid-nineteenth century story entitled The Scarlet Letter, marked the most dramatic of
the tales scenes. It marked the instant in which the respected Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale ripped away the covering that hid his own personal sin and guilt and left his
sanctimony exposed before the Puritan judgment of Colonial New England. Hawthorne, himself a product of early American Puritanism, noted in retrospect that his ancestors were hypocritical in the exercise
of their religious beliefs and traditions, for many times it was later proven that a number of both congregation and clergy regularly practiced the sins against which they so fervently
railed (Barna 324). From the concept of this noted hypocrisy was born The Scarlet Letter, a haunting tale of misplaced faith, silent sin and the consequences of both. One
and one quarter century later, another writer decided to take on the subject of religion and the many threads of hypocrisy that have traditionally woven its tapestry. Like Hawthorne,
John Updike noted that faith was often misplaced in religion, for sin exists in one form or another among even the most pious and righteous of individuals. Like Hawthorne,
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