“Different Strokes for Different Folks”: America's Quintessential Postmodern Proverb

Theology Today

Volumn 53, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 201-212

  McKenzie, Alyce M ^a  

^a PRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY   (United States)

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EID: 85007724535     PISSN: 00405736     EISSN: 20442556     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/004057369605300209     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Ernest Gellner, Postmodernism, Reason and Religion, (London: Routledge, 1992), p. 22.
2. Christian Belief in a Postmodern World: The Full Wealth of Conviction (Louisville: Westminster/John Knox, 1989), p. 1.
3. Wolfgang Mieder, “Different Strokes for Different Folks,” in American Proverbs: A Study of Texts and Contexts, edited by Wolfgang Mieder (New York: Peter Lang, 1989), p. 319.
4. Sidney E. Ahlstrom, “The Traumatic Years: American Religion and Culture in the 60s and 70s,” Theology Today 34 (January, 1980), pp. 504-522.
5. Mieder, “Different Strokes,” pp. 321-346.
6. Robert N. Bellah, Richard Madsen, William M. Sullivan, Ann Swidler, and Steven M. Tipton, Habits of the Heart: Individualism and Commitment in American Life (New York: Harper & Row, 1985), pp. 142-143.
7. R.W. Burchfield entered it as a “popular saying” in his Supplement to the Oxford English Dictionary (Oxford: Clarendon, 1986), vol. 4, p. 580.
8. “Mieder, “Different Strokes,” p. 322.
9. James G. Williams, Those Who Ponder Proverbs: Aphoristic Thinking and Biblical Literature (Sheffield: Almond, 1981), pp. 47-63.
10. Thomas G. Long, Preaching and the Literary Forms of the Bible (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1989), pp. 57-58.
11. Roger Lundin, The Culture of Interpretation: Christian Faith and the Postmodern World (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1993), p. 3.
12. Williams, Those Who Ponder Proverbs, p. 14.
13. Roland Murphy, The Tree of Life: An Exploration of Biblical Wisdom Literature (New York: Doubleday, 1990), pp. 114-115.
14. Roland Murphy, “Wisdom Theses,” in Wisdom and Knowledge, edited by J. Armenti (Philadelphia: Villanova University Press, 1976), pp. 198-199.
15. John J. Collins, “Proverbial Wisdom and the Yahwist Vision,” Semeia 17 (1980), p. 10.
16. Roland Murphy, “The Faith of Qohelet,” Word and World 1 [1987], p. 256.
17. Claudia V. Camp, “Paraenesis: A Feminist Response,” Semeia 50 [1990], pp. 247-248).
18. To Change the World: Christology and Cultural Criticism [New York: Crossroad, 1990], pp. 53-54.
19. Alan Dundes, “Folkideas as Units of Worldview,” in Essays in Folkloristics (Meerut: Ved Prakash Vatuk Folklore Institute, 1978), p. 109.