2000s
41.3
Published Autumn 2009
Articles
Mary Trull, “The Impossible Gift: The Sacrifice of Praise in Anne Lock’s ‘A Meditation of a Penitent Sinner’”
Joshua Pederson, “Gnostic Mantra: Reading Religious Syncretism in Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Plutonian Ode’”
Thomas Haddox, “Catholicism for ‘Really Intelligent People’: The Rhetoric of Muriel Spark’s Reality and Dreams”
Forum: “Locating the Postsecular,” edited by Michael Kaufmann
Mągdaleńa Maczynska, “Toward a Postsecular Literary Criticism: Examining Ritual Gestures in Zadie Smith’s Autograph Man”
Kathryn Ludwig, “Don DeLillo’s Underworld and the Postsecular in Contemporary Fiction”
Everett Hamner, “Determined Agency: A Postsecular Proposal for Religion and Literature—And Science”
Lee Morrissey, “Literature and the Postsecular: Paradise Lost”
Laura Levitt, “What is Religion, Anyway? Rereading the Postsecular from an American Jewish Perspective”
David Harrington Watt, “Losing Our Religion”
Review Essay
Michael Tomko, “The Season of the Secular: Revisiting the Secularization Thesis in Nineteenth-Century Studies”
Book Reviews
Christiane Gruber on Frederick Colby's Narrating Muhammad’s Night Journey: Tracing the Developement of the Ibn ’Abbas Ascension Discourse
Donald Stump on Stephen Hamrick's The Catholic Imaginary and the Cults of Elizabeth, 1558-1582
Elizabeth Williamson on Sean Benson's Shakespeare Resurrection: The Art of Almost Raising the Dead
Alan D. Chalmers on ed. Todd C. Baker's Swift as Priest and Satirist
James Finn Cotter on Joseph J Feeney, S.J.'s The Playfulness of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Elizabeth Chang on J. Jeffrey Franklin's The Lotus and the Lion: Buddhism and the British Empire
Lee Oser on William Oddie's Chesterton and the Romance of Orthodoxy: The Making of GKC 1874-1908
Mark Scroggins on Maeera Y. Shreiber's Singing in a Strange Land: A Jewish American Poetics
Paul J. Contino on Robert Lundin's Believing Again: Doubt and Faith in a Secular Age
Henry Hart on John F. Desmond's Gravity and Grace: Seamus Heaney and the Force of Light
Jessica Martin on ed. Marcia Kupfer's The Passion Story: From Visual Representation to Social Drama
41.2
Published Summer 2009
Articles
Susannah Brietz Monta, “Introduction”
Configuring the Literary and the Religious
Larry D. Bouchard, “Religion and Literature: Four Theses and More”
Graham Ward, “Why Literature Can Never Be Entirely Secular”
Giuseppe Mazzotta, “Literature and Religion: The Error of Narcissus”
Fatemeh Keshavarz, “Sewn Together with the Thread of the Sun: Religion and Literature as a Discipline”
Hafid Gafaiti, “Notes on Islam and Literature”
Lori Branch, “Metanoia: An Eastern Christian Vision for the Study of Religion and Literature”
Literature and Theology
Cleo McNelly Kearns, “Religion, Literature, and Theology: Potentials and Problems”
William Franke, “Beyond the Limits of Reason Alone: A Critical Approach to the Religious Inspiration of Literature”
Vittorio Montemaggi, “Love, Forgiveness, and Meaning: On the Relationship Between Theological and Literary Reflection”
Olivier-Thomas Venard, “‘Theology and Literature’: What Is It About?”
Fields, Disciplines, and Institutions
Susan M. Felch, “Cautionary Tales and Crisscrossing Paths”
Wesley A. Kort, “What, After All, Is ‘Religion and Literature’?”
Elisabeth Jay, “What Kind of Discipline Is Offered in the Study of Theology/Religion and Literature?”
David Jasper, “A Study of Literature Religion: A British Perspective”
Eric Ziolkowski, “The Palace, Not the Plans: Some Thoughts on Religion and Literature”
Histories and Futures
Brenda Deen Schildgen, “Poetry and Theology in the Fourteenth Century”
Kevin Hart, “‘Religion and Literature’?”
Darren J. N. Middleton, “Religion and Literature’s Unfinished Story”
Dominic Manganiello, “Ad Fontes: The Vine and the Green Branch”
Ken Jackson, “Transcendence Hunting”
Reflections on Praxis
Andrew W. Hass, “Intending Metaphors: Living and Working ‘Religion and Literature’”
Peter S. Hawkins, “Laboring in the Vineyard: A Career in Retrospective”
Theodore Ziolkowski, “Forum on Religion and Literature: A Mildly Polemical Position Statement”
Sacred Texts
Stephen Prickett, “Narrative, Theology, and Literature”
Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg, “Paradise Found”
Shawkat M. Toorawa, “Hapless Hapaxes and Luckless Rhymes: The Qur’an as Literature”
Possible Canons
Susan Mizruchi, “Loose Canons and Representative Works in Religion and Literature”
Paul J. Contino, “William Lynch’s Christ and Apollo and the Field of Religion and Literature”
Religion, Literature, and Literary-Historical Fields
Julia Reinhard Lupton, “Renaissance Profanations: Religion and Literature in the Age of Agamben”
Cristanne Miller, “Religion, History, and Modernisms Protest Against the ‘Uncompanionable Drawl // Of Certitude’”
Hank Lazer, “Engaging Religion and Literature”
Shakir Mustafa, “Defending the Faith: Islam in Post 9/11 Anglophone Fiction”
Roger Lundin, “Prospects and Retrospects: Religion and Literature in an American Context”
Laura Sue Fuderer and Alan Krieger, “Selected Library Resources for Religion and Literature: An Annotated Bibliography”
41.1
Published Spring 2009
Articles
David M. Robinson, “‘For Largest Liberty’: Emerson, Natural Religion, and the Antislavery Crisis”
Shira Wolosky, “Emerson’s Figural Religion: From Poetics to Politics”
Mark S. Cladis, “Religion, Democracy, and Virtue: Emerson and the Journey’s End”
Johannes Voelz, “Emerson and the Sociality of Inspiration”
Paul Kane, “Emerson and Hafiz: The Figure of the Religious Poet”
Book Reviews
Mark Bosco, S.J., on Darren J. N. Middleton's Theology after Reading: Christian Imagination and the Power of Fiction
Timothy Morton on Alister E. McGrath's The Open Secret: A New Vision for Natural Theology
Wendy Love Anderson on trans. Denis Searby and intro. and notes Bridget Morris's The Revelations of St. Birgitta of Sweden, Volume 2, Liber Caelestis, Books IV-V
Emily Steiner on Andrew Cole's Literature and Heresy in the Age of Chaucer
Malcolm Richardson on Katherine Zieman's Singing the New Song: Literacy and Liturgy in Late Medieval England
Nancy Bradley Warren on Clare M. Waters's Virgins and Scholars: A Fifteenth-Century Compilation of the Lives of John the Baptist, John the Evangelist, Jerome, and Katherine of Alexandria
Gregory Kneidel on Ramie Targoff's John Donne, Body and Soul
Raymond B. Waddington on eds. Reid Barbour and Claire Preston Thomas Browne: The World Proposed
David Ainsworth on John T. Shawcross's The Development of Milton’s Thought: Law, Government, and Religion; Gordon Campbell and Thomas N. Corns's John Milton: Life, Work, and Thought
Sara L. Maurer on William R. McKelvy's The English Cult of Literature: Devoted Readers, 1774-1880
Ksana Blank on Rowan Williams's Dostoevsky: Language, Faith, and Fiction
Zachary Hutchins on Ilana Pardes's Melville’s Bibles
Adam Schwartz on Paul Robichaud 's Making the Past Present: David Jones, the Middle Ages, and Modernism
Craig B. Woelfel on Theodore Ziolkowski's Modes of Faith: Secular Surrogates for Lost Religious Belief
Jon Vickery on Michael Ward's Planet Narnia: The Seven Heavens in the Imagination of C.S. Lewis
George S. Lensing on Laurel Snow Corelle's A Poet’s High Argument: Elizabeth Bishop and Christianity
Everett Hamner on David J. Leigh, S.J.'s Apocalyptic Patterns in Twentieth-Century Fiction
40.3
Published Autumn 2008
Articles
John D. Cox, “Shakespeare and the Ethics of Friendship”
Mustansir Mir, “Some Figures of Speech in the Qur’an”
Neta Stahl, “‘Uri Zvi Before the Cross’: The Figure of Jesus in the Poetry of Uri Zvi Greenberg”
Book Reviews
Daniel R. Gibbons on Timothy Rosendale's Liturgy and Literature in the Making of Protestant England
Chris R. Vanden Bossche on Patrick R. O’Malley's Catholicism, Sexual Deviances, and Victorian Gothic Culture
Mark Cumming on Paul E. Kerry and ed. Jesse S. Crisler's Literature and Belief: Thomas Carlyle
Kevin Hart on Kenneth Paul Kramer's Redeeming Time: T.S. Eliot’s “Four Quartets”
John Cox on Scott L. Newstok's Kenneth Burke on Shakespeare
Daniel McInerny on Marian E. Crowe's Aiming at Heaven, Getting the Earth: The English Catholic Novel Today
Roger Lundin on Tracy Fessenden's Culture and Redemption: Religion, the Secular, and American Literature
William Christopher Hackett on ed. William Franke's On What Cannot Be Said: Apophatic Discourses in Philosophy, Religion, Literature and the Arts: Volume One, Classical Formulations and On What Cannot Be Said: Apophatic Discourses in Philosophy, Religion, Literature, and the Arts: Volume Two, Modern and Contemporary Transformations
40.2
Published Summer 2008
Articles
Lisa Gasbarrone, “Restoring the Sacred in Les Miserables”
Larry D. Bouchard, “Eliza and Rita, Paul and Luke: The Eclipse and Kenosis of Integrity in Pygmalion, Educating Rita, and Six Degrees of Separation”
Theodore Ziolkowski, “The Veil as Metaphor and Myth”
Book Reviews
Donald G. Marshall on Robert P. Kennedy's eds. Kim Paffenroth, and John Doody's Augustine and Literature
David J. Leigh, S.J., on Daniel E. White's Early Romanticism and Religious Dissent
Collin Meissner on Hazel Hutchinson's Seeing and Believing: Henry James and the Spiritual World
Rachel Salmon Deshen on ed. Lesley Higgins's The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins, Volume 1V: Oxford Essays and Notes
Brian Ingraffia on ed. Roger Lundin's There Before Us: Religion, Literature, and Culture from Emerson to Wendell Berry
Anita Houck on Jacqueline Bussie's The Laughter of the Oppressed: Ethical and Theological Resistance in Wiesel, Morrison, and Endo
Book Notices
Benjamin Fischer on Ann C. Colley's Robert Louis Stevenson and the Colonial Imagination
40.1
Published Spring 2008
Articles
Kate Rigby, “Introduction: ‘Lifting our eyes from the page’: Religion, Literature, and the Earth”
John Sitter, “Eighteenth-Century Ecological Poetry and Ecotheology”
Mark Lussier, “Self-Annihilation/Inner Revolution: Blake’s Milton, Buddhism, and Ecocriticism”
Deborah Slicer, “Quiet…Please”
Mark Cladis, “Stone-Throwers with Excellent Aim: Waking-up to an Environmental Democratic Vision”
Deborah Bird Rose, “Dreaming Ecology ~ Beyond the Between”
Book Reviews
Chris Coughran on Timothy Morton's Ecology Without Nature: Rethinking Environmental Aesthetics
Anne Elvey on Laurel Kerns and Catherine Keller's Ecospirit: Religions and Philosophies for the Earth
39.3 (Published Autumn 2007)
Articles
John Freccero, “Epitaph for Guido: Inferno X”
Susan Srigley, “The Violence of Love: Reflections on Self-Sacrifice Through Flannery O’Connor and René Girard”
Thomas A. Carlson, “With the World at Heart: Reading Cormac McCarthy’s The Road with Augustine and Heidegger”
Book Reviews
Matthew Biberman on Jason P. Rosenblatt's Renaissance England’s Chief Rabbi: John Selden
Jeffrey Hammond on Michael J. Colacurcio's Godly Letters: The Literature of American Puritans
Stephen B. Dobranski on Michael Lieb's Theological Milton: Deity, Discourse and Heresy in the Miltonic Canon
James Walton on Mark Knight and Thomas Woodman's, eds., Biblical Religion and the Novel, 1700-2000
Robert Mitchell on David M. Craig's John Ruskin and the Ethics of Consumption (Studies in Religion and Culture Series)
Rebecca Manring on Michael Madhusudhan Datta's The Slaying of Meghanada: A Ramayana from Colonial Bengal. Clinton B. Seey, trans.
Michael Tomko on Michael Wheeler's The Old Enemies: Catholic and Protestant in Nineteenth-Century English Culture
39.2 (Published Summer 2007)
Articles
William P. Franke, “Scripture as Theophany in Dante’s Paradiso”
Elizabeth Grubgeld, "Body, Privacy, and Community: Reading Disability in the Late Fiction of Andre Dubus
Muriel Schmid, “Sylvie Germain’s Invitation to a Journey and the Memory of Evil”
Henry Weinfield, Review Essay on American Religious Poems, An Anthology, Harold Bloom and Jesse Zuba, eds.
Book Reviews
Robert Baker on Eds. Kevin J. Vanhoozer's James K. Smith, and Bruce Ellis Benson Hermeneutics at the Crossroads (Indiana Series in the Philosophy of Religion)
Brian Coniff on Arthur Kirsch's Auden and Christianity
Leslie Hill on Christopher Stratham's Romantic Poetry and the Fragmentary Imperative: Schlegel, Byron, Joyce, Blanchot
David Jaspers on Ranen Omer-Sherman's Israel in Exile: Jewish Writing and the Desert
Kate Rigby on T. K. Seung's Goethe, Nietzsche, and Wagner: Their Spinozan Ethics of Love and Power
Scott Thompson Smith on Eds. Clare A. Lees and Gillian R. Overing's A Place to Believe In: Locating Medieval Landscapes
39.1 (Published Spring 2007)
Articles
Henry Hart, “The Quest for Mystical Communion and Community”
Christopher J. Knight, “‘The God of Love Is Full of Tricks’: Virginia Woolf’s Vexed Relation to the Tradition of Christianity”
Anita Houck, “The Ambiguous Laughter of Reconciliation: Comic Theodicy in Modern Literature”
Olivia Gabor-Peirce, “Friedrich Dürrenmat: Divine Traces in the Work of an Atheist”
Book Reviews
Scott Dransfield on Arthur Kirsch's Auden and Christianity
John Jacobs on Max Harris's Theatre and Incarnation
Cyrus P. Olsen on T. K. Seung's Nietzsche’s Epic of the Soul: Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Daniel Gates on William Poole's Milton and the Idea of the Fall
John Carlos Rowe on eds. Ronald A. Bosco and Joel Myerson's Emerson Bicentennial Essays
Christopher Strathman on ed. Donald G. Marshall's The Force of Tradition: Response and Resistance in Religion, Literature, and Cultural Studies
Dennis Todd on Julie Crawford's Marvelous Protestantism: Mostrous Births in Post-Reformation England
Joel Westerholm on Constance Hasset's Christina Rossetti: The Patience of Style. Victorian Literature and Culture Series, Jerome J. McGann and Herbert Tucker, eds.
Terence R. Wright on Charles Burack's D. H. Lawrence’s Language of Sacred Experience: The Transfiguration of the Reader
Sandra Wynands on Robert Baker's The Exravagant: Crossing of Modern Poetry and Modern Philosophy
Michael Strawser on Amy Laura Hall's Kierkegaard and the Treachery of Love
Joel D. Rasmussen's Between Irony and Witness: Kierkegaard’s Poetics of Faith, Hope, and Love
38.4 (Published Winter 2006)
Articles
Vittorio Hösle, “Religion of Art, Self-Mythicization and the Function of the Church Year in Goethe’s Italienische Reise”
Kimberly VanEsveld Adams, “Family Influences on The Minister’s Wooing and Oldtown Folks:Henry Ward Beecher and Calivin Stowe”
Peter Lowe, "’Doing a Girl In’: Re-Reading the Asceticism of T.S. Eliot’s The Family Reunion’’
Jeffrey Klein, “Body Language: Desire and Polemic in the Corpus of Thomas Lynch”
Book Reviews
Denise Despres on Brenda Deen Schildgen's Pagans, Tartars, Moslems, and Jews in Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales)
Terrence Neal Brown on John Garth's Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth
A.W. Barnes on William J. McGill's Poets’ Meeting: George Herbert, R.S. Thomas, and the Argument with God
Michael Brennan on Kevin Hart's The Dark Gaze: Maurice Blanchot and the Sacred
Sandra M. Gustafson on Peter Kafer's Charles Brockden Brown’s Revolution and the Birth of American Gothic
Larry Isitt on Michael Bryson's The Tyranny of Heaven: Milton’s Rejection of God as King
Thomas Gaiton Marullo on Edith W. Clowes's Fiction’s Overcoat: Russian Literary Culture and the Question of Philosophy
Gloria Davies on Zhang Longxi's Allegoresis: Reading Canonical Literature East and West
Paul A. Parrish on Felecia Wright McDuffie's To Our Bodies Turn We Then: Body as Word and Sacrament in the Works of John Donne; Brent Nelson's Holy Ambition: Rhetoric, Courtship, and Devotion in the Sermons of John Donne
Jeanne Shami's John Donne and Conformity in Crisis in the Late Jacobean Pulpit
Joseph Sterrett on Maurice Hunt's Shakespeare’s Religious Allusiveness: Its Play and Tolerance; Richard Wilson's Secret Shakespeare: Studies in Theatre, Religion, and Resistance; Clare Asquith's Shadowplay: The Hidden Beliefs and Coded Politics of William Shakespeare; Peter Milward's S.J., Shakespeare the Papist
38.3 (Published Autumn 2006)
Articles
Graham Hammill and Julia Reinhard, “Sovereign, Citizens, and Saints: Political Theology and Renaissance Literature”
Jacques Lezra, “Phares, or Divisible Sovereignty”
Catherine Winiarski, "’Adultery, Idolatry, and the Subject of Monotheism’’
Alice Dailey, “Making Edmund Campion: Treason, Martyrdom, and the Structure of Transcendence”
Ken Jackson, “‘Is it God or the Sovereign Exception?’: Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer and Shakespeare’s King John”
Philip Lorenz, “‘Chiristall Mirrors’ – Analogy and Onto-Theology in Shakespeare and Francisco Suárez”
Ineke Murakami, “The ‘bond and privilege of nature’ in Coriolanus”
Jennifer Rust, “‘Image of Idolatryes’: Iconotropy and hte Theo-Political Body in The Faerie Queene”
Aaron Kitch, “Golden Muse: Protestantism, Mercantilisim, and the Uses of Ovid in Marlowe’s Hero and Leander”
Matthew Biberman, “Three Folds: Searching for Milton’s Paradise Lost between Moses, Lacan, and Derrida”
Lowell Gallagher, “Imagining Baroque Ethics: John Evelyn and the Case of the Stigmatic ‘Working Wench’”
38.2 (Published Summer 2006)
Articles
Nandra Perry, “‘Tis Heav’n She Speakes’: Lady Religion, Saint Teresa, and the Politics of Ceremony in the Poetry of Richard Crashaw”
David Goslee, “R.H. Hutton’s Novel Theology”
Daniel Cook, “Froude’s Post-Christian Apostate and the Uneven Development of Unbelief”
Thomas W. Smith, “Tolkein’s Catholic Imagination: Mediation and Tradition”
John F. Desmond, “Walker Percy and Writing the Holocaust”
Book Reviews
Alison Milbank on Christian Moevs's The Metaphysics of Dante’s Comedy
Franklin E. Liebenow, Jr., on Michael Giffin's Jane Austen and Religion: Salvation and Society in Georgian England
William Rossi on Alan D. Hodder's Thoreau’s Ecstatic Witness
Joel Westerholm on Frank M. Turner's John Henry Newman: The Challenge to Evangelical Religion
Stephen Prickett on Bernard Bergonzi's A Victorian Wanderer: The Life of Thomas Arnold the Younger
Andrew Zawacki on Roger Lundin's Emily Dickinson and the Art of Belief (2nd edition)
Janet McCann on Robert Ziegler's The Mirror of Divinity: The World and Creation in J.K. Huysmans
Cyril O’Regan on Kirsten J. Grimstad's The Modern Revival of Gnosticism and Thomas Mann’s Doktor Faustus
Book Notices
Erik Sidenvalls, After Anti-Catholicism: John Henry Newman and Protestant Britain, 1845-c. 1890
Jean-Luc Barré, translated by Bernard E. Doering, Jacques and Raïssa Maritain: Beggars for Heaven
38.1 (Published Spring 2006)
Articles
Roger Lundin, “Introduction: The American Literature and Religion Seminar”
Elisa New, “Variety as Religious Experience: The Poetics of the Plain Style”
Barbara Packer, “Response to Elisa New’s ‘Where the Meanings Are’”
Denise Donoghue, “Religion and American Fiction”
Lawrence Buell, “American Literature and / As Spiritual Inquiry: A Response to Denis Donoghue”
Stanley Hauerwas and Ralph Wood, “How the Church Became Invisible: A Christian Reading of American Literary Traditions”
Katherine Clay Bassard, “The Race for Faith: Justice, Mercy and the Sign of the Cross in African American Literature”
Book Reviews
A.W. Barnes on Lisa Lampert's Gender and Jewish Difference from Paul to Shakespeare
Tom Bishop on Brian Cummings's The Literary Culture of the Reformation: Grammar and Grace
Alison Shell's Catholicism, Controversy and the English Literary Imagination, 1558-1660
Stephen Prickett on Sheila A. Spector's British Romanticism and the Jews: History, Culture, Literature; J. Robert Barth's Romanticism and Transcendence: Wordsworth, Coleridge, and the Religious Imagination
Stephen Prickett on Judith Wilt's Behind Her Times: Transition England in the Novels of Mary Arnold Ward
Adam Schwartz on Mark Bosco's Graham Greene’s Catholic Imagination
Scott Dransfield on Robert D. Denham's Northrop Frye: Religious Visionary and Architect of the Spiritual World
37.3 (Published Autumn 2005)
Articles
John Milbank, “Fictioning Things: Gifts and Narratives”
Roger E. Moore, “’I’ll rouse my senses, and awake myself’: Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta and the Renaissance Gnostic Tradition”
Ruthe Coates, “Bakhtin and Hesychasm”
Sandra Wynands, “Visuality and Iconicity in Samuel Beckett’s Catastrophe”
Book Reviews
Cyril O’Regan on eds. Oliver Davies and Denys Turner's Silence and the Word: Negative Theology and Incarnation
Michael J. Kessler on Ivan Strenski's Contesting Sacrifice: Religion, Nationalism, and Social Thought in France; David Lee Miller's Dreams of the Burning Child: Sacrificial Sons and the Father’s Witness; Amy Hungerford's The Holocaust of Texts: Genocide, Literature, and Personification
Sandra Wynands on Hent de Vries's, trans. by Geoffrey Hale, Minimal Theologies: Critiques of Secular Reason in Adorno and Lévinas
Andrew Zawacki on Linda Bolton's Facing the Other: Ethical Disruption and the American Mind
Michael Bryson on Victoria Silver's Imperfect Sense: The Predicament of Milton’s Irony
David Loewenstein's Representing REvolution in Milton and His Contemporaries: Religion, Politics, and Polemics in Radical Puritanism
Michael Brennan on Kate Rigby's Topographies of the Sacred: The Poetics of Place in European Romanticism
Thomas Butler on Susan M. Griffin's Anti-Catholicism and Nineteenth-Century Fiction. Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, no. 141
Rebecca Garcia Lucas on Wesley A. Kort's Place and Space in Modern Fiction
Louis A. DelFra, CSC, on Karl-Heinz Westarp's Precision and Depth in Flannery O’Connor’s Short Stories; Susan Srigley's Flannery O’Connor’s Sacramental Art
37.2 (Published Summer 2005)
Articles
Paul J. Patterson, “The Book and Religious Practice in Late Medieval England”
Rosalynn Voaden, “Who Was Marget Thorpe? Reading Mechtild of Hackeborn in Fifteenth-Century England”
Vincent Gillespie, “Syon and the English Market for Continental Printed Books: The Incunable Phase”
Mary Erler, “Windows in Retirement: Region, Patronage, Spirituality, Reading at the Gaunts, Bristol”
Michael G. Sargent, “Mystical Writings and Dramatic Texts in Late Medieval England”
Nicholas Watson, “Chaucer’s Public Christianity”
Book Reviews
Paul J. Contino on Peter S. Hawkins's Dante’s Testaments: Essays in Scriptural Imagination
37.1 (Published Spring 2005)
Articles
Barbara Newman, “The Artifice of Eternity: Speaking of Heaven in Three Medieval Poems”
Scott Huelin, “Reading, Writing, and Memory in Hamlet”
Murray Roston, “Donne and the Mediative Tradition”
Alison O’Harae, “Theology, Genre and Romance in Richard Baxter and Harriet Beecher Stowe”
Philip R. Wood, “Beyond the Simulacrum of Religion versus Secularism: Modernist Aesthetic ‘Mysticism’; Or, Why We Will Not Stop Revering ‘Great Books’”
Book Reviews
Gillen D. Wood on Luke Ferretter'sTowards a Christian Literary Theory
John Renard on Scott B. Noegel and Brannon M. Wheeler's Historical Dictionary of Prophets in Islam and Judaism; Brannon M. Wheeler's Prophets in the Quran: An Introduction to the Quran and Muslim Exegesis
Robert Crawford on J. Walter McGinty's Robert Burns and Religion
36.3 (Published Autumn 2004)
Articles
Deneen Senasi, “A Matter of Words: Aesthetics of Reading and Embodiment in the Poetry of Richard Crashaw”
Jessie Cheney, “If the Words Be Well Understood, Or, What did John Cotton Mean When He Accused Anne Hutchinson of Adultery?”
James H. Thrall, “Immersing the Chela: Religion and Empire in Rudyard Kipling’s Kim”
Thomas M. Dicken, “God and Pigment: John Updike on the Conversation of Meaning”
Book Reviews
Christopher A. Jones on ed. Paul Cavill's The Christian Tradition in Anglo-Saxon England: Approaches to Current Scholarship and Teaching. Christianity and Culture: Issues in Teaching and Research 1
Paul Tankard on Doris T. Myers's Bareface: A Guide to C.S. Lewis’s Last Novel; Peter J. Schakel's Imagination and the Arts in C.S. Lewis: Journeying to Narnia and Other Worlds
Book Notices
Sarah Beckwith, Signifying God: Social Relation and Symbolic Act in the York Corpus Christi Plays
36.2 (Published Summer 2004)
Articles
Margaret Olofson Thickstun, “Milton Among Puritan Women: Affiliative Spirituality and the Conclusion of Paradise Lost”
Alan Blackstock, “Redeeming the Fallen Giants: Chesterton on Newman, Carlyle, and Ruskin”
Mark Bosco, SJ, “From The Power and the Glory to The Honorary Consul: The Development of Graham Greene’s Catholic Imagination”
Ranen Omer-Sherman, “Orthodox Community and Individuality in Allegra Goodman’s Kaaterskill Falls”
Book Reviews
Anthony Low on es. Claude J. Summers and Ted-Larry Pebworth's Fault Lines and Controversies in the Study of Seventeenth-Century English Literature; Robert Appelbaum's Literature and Utopian Politics in Seventeenth-Century England; R.V. Young's Doctrine and Devotion in Seventeenth-Century Poetry: Studies in Donne, Herbert, Crashaw, and Vaughan
John Renard on Herbert Berg's The Development of Exegesis in Early Islam: The Authenticity of Muslim Literature from the Formative Period; ed. Issa Boullata's Literary Structures of Religious Meaning in the Qur’an; Daniel Madigan's The Qur’an’s Self-Image: Writing and Authority in Islam’s Scripture; Jawid Mojaddedi's The Biographical Tradition in Sufism: the Tabaqat Genre from al-Sulami to Jami; Roberto Tottoli's Biblical Prophets in the Qur’an and Muslim Literature; Brannon M. Wheeler's Moses in the Qur’an and Islamic Exegesis
David V. Urban onJohn T. Shawcross's The Uncertain World of Samson Agonistes
Derek N.C. Wood's “Exiled From Light”: Divine Law Morality, and Violence in Milton’s Samson Agonistes; Joseph Wittreich's Shifting Contexts: Reinterpreting Samson Agonistes
Mark R. Kelly and ed. Joseph Wittreich's Altering Eyes: New Perspectives on Samson Agonistes
William Scheick on Susan Juster's Doomsayers: Anglo American Prophecy in the Age of Revolution
Jay Twomey on Alain Badiou's, trans. by Ray Brassier, Saint Paul: The Foundation of Universalism
Randy Boyogoda on Frank Kermode's Pieces of My Mind: Essays and Criticism 1958-2002
Greg Maillet on Phillip J. Donnelly's Rhetorical Faith: The Literary Hermeneutics of Stanley Fish; Gary A. Olson's Justifying Belief: Stanley Fish and the Work of Rhetoric
Book Notices
Kathryn Powell and Donald Scragg, eds., Apocryphal Texts and Traditions in Anglo-Saxon England
Robert Ellsberg, ed., Flannery O’Connor: Spiritual Writings
36.1 (Published Spring 2004)
Articles
Peter S. Hawkins, “Lost and Found: The Bible and its Literary Afterlife”
Lawrence Beaston, “The Pearl-Poet and Pelagians”
John D. Cox, “Shakespeare’s Religious and Moral Thinking: Skepticism or Suspicion?”
Michael Roeschlein, “E.M. Forster and ‘the Part of the Mind That Seldom Speaks’: Mysticism, Mythopoeia and Irony in A Passage to India”
Book Reviews
Brian Graham on Alvin A. Lee and ed. Jean O’Grady's Northorop Frye on Religion, excluding The Great Code and Words with Power
Christopher Strathman on Stephen Prickett's Narrative, Religion and Science: Fundamentalism versus Irony, 1700-1999; Kevin Hart's The Trespass of the Sign: Deconstruction, Theology and Philosophy
Book Notices
Brian Murdoch, The Medieval Popular Bible: Expansions of Genesis in the Middle Ages
Regina Hewitt and Pat Rogers, eds., Orthodoxy and Heresy in Eighteenth-Century Society: Essays from the DeBartolo Conference
Martin Priestman, Romantic Atheism: Poetry and Freethought, 1780-1830
35.2-3 (Published Summer-Autumn 2003)
Articles
Heidi Oberholtzer, “Pilgrimage in Literature of the Americas: Spiritualized Travel and Sacred Place”
John Gatta, “Godliness Writ Large in John Muir’s Sierra”
John J. Murphy, “Sacred Places Along Cather’s Route to Avignon”
H.R. Stoneback, “Pilgrimage Variations: Hemingway’s Sacred Landscapes”
Alberto López Pulido, “Chicano Religions through Chicano Literature: Reinscribing Chicano Religions as a Hermeneutics of Movement”
Kimberly M. Blaeser, “Sacred Journey Cycles: Pilgrimage as Re-turning and Re-telling in American Indigenous Literatures”
Kamau Brathwaite, “Namsetoura”
Katherine Clay Bassard, “Crossing Over: Free Space, Sacred Place and Intertextual Geographies in Peter Randolph’s Sketches of Slave Life”
Mary Baine Campbell, “Holy Land USA: Thirteen Photographs, a Poem, and Two Excurses”
Benedict Giamo, “Enlightened Attachment: Kerouac’s Impermanent Buddhist Trek”
Ihab Hassan, “Coming to America: Fragment of a Memoir”
Barbara Pell, “Hugh Hood’s Allegorical Landscapes as Sacred Spaces”
Hilton Obenzinger, “Holy Land Narrative and American Covenant: Levi Parsons, Pliny Fisk and the Palestine Mission”
35.1 (Published Spring 2003)
Articles
Michael Bryson, “Dismemberment and Community: Sacrifice and the Communal Body in the Hebrew Scriptures”
Janet B. Sommers, “Vision and Revision: The Midrashic Imagination in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Woman in Sacred History”
John Garrard, “The Twelve:Block’s Apocalypse”
Robert E. Kohn, “Seven Buddhist Themes in Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49”
Jay Twomey, “Spirit in Motion: Echoes of a Pentecostal Heritage in the Poetry of A.R. Ammons”
Book Reviews
Ann M. Begley on Francine Du Plessix Gray's Simone Weil
Susan M. Srigley on Richard Giannone's Flannery O’Connor, Hermit Novelist
Ranen Omer-Sherman on B. Jill Carroll's The Savage Side: Reclaiming Violent Models of God
Book Notices
Dee Dyas, Pilgrimage in Medieval English Literature, 700-1500
Piero Boitani, trans. Anita Weston, The Bible and Its Rewritings
34.3 (Published Autumn 2002)
Articles
Michael J. Colacurcio, “'Excessive and Organic Ill': Melville, Evil, and the Question of Politics"
Mark W. Roche, “Christ as the Lost I: Multiple Interpretations of Gottfried Benn's Poem 'Verlorenes Ich'”
Hyangsoon Yi, “The Journey as Meditation: A Buddhist Reading of O Chōng-hūi's 'Words of Farewell'”
Ihab Hassan, “Australian Journeys: A Personal Essay on Spirit”
Colin Wells, “Connecticut Wit and Augustan Theology: John Trumbull, Timothy Dwight, and the New Divinity”
Book Reviews
John D. Cox on:
Eric Josef Ziolkowski’s Evil Children in Religion, Literature, and Art
Armando Maggi’s Satan's Rhetoric: A Study of Renaissance Demonology
Laura Lunger Knoppers on:
Stephen Greenblatt’s Hamlet in Purgatory
John D. Cox’s The Devil and the Sacred in English Drama, 1350-1642
Book Notices
Dee Dyas, Pilgrimage in Medieval English Literature, 700-1500
34.2 (Published Summer 2002)
Articles
Colin Wells, “Connecticut Wit and Augustan Theology: John Trumbull, Timothy Dwight, and the New Divinity”
Barry Sloan, “The Disciplines of Watching and Waiting: R.S. Thomas, Poetry and Prayer”
Jay Twomey, “Spirit in Motion: Echoes of a Pentecostal Heritage in the Poetry of A.R. Ammons”
Colleen Carpenter Cullinan, “A Maternal Discourse of Redemption: Speech and Suffering in Morrison's Beloved”
Book Reviews
Robert Lance Snyder on:
Allison M. Jack’s Texts Reading Texts, Sacred and Secular: Two Postmodern Perspectives. Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement Series 179
Wesley A. Kort on:
Ed. Keith E. Yandell, Faith and Narrative
John R. May’s Nourishing Faith Through Fiction: Reflections of the Apostles' Creed in Literature and Film
J. Robert Baker on:
Peter J. Conradi’s Iris Murdoch: A Life
Maria Antonaccio's Picturing the Human: The Moral Thought of Iris Murdoch
Anne Rowe’s The Visual Arts and the Novels of Iris Murdoch
Book Notices
Ed. Arthur F. Marotti, Catholicism and Anti-Catholicism in Early Modern English Texts
Theresa M. DiPasquale, Literature and Sacrament: The Sacred and the Secular in John Donne
Richard A. Rosengarten, Heavy Fielding and the Narration of Providence: Divine Design and the Incursions of Evil
Cates Baldridge, Graham Greene's Fictions: The Virtues of Extremity
34.1 (Published Spring 2002)
Articles
Anne Barbeau Gardiner, “John Dryden's Eleonora and the Catholic Idea of Humility”
Rachel Salmon Deshen, “Spelling Hopkins' Leaves: Reading Across Hermeneutic Traditions”
David Leigh, S.J., “Ironic Apocalypse in John Updike's Toward the End of Time”
Norman Finkelstein, “Poland of Death: Allen Grossman's Phantasmagoric Kaddish”
Book Notices
Philip C. Almond, Adam and Eve in Seventeenth-Century Thought
David P. Haney, The Challenge of Coleridge: Ethics and Interpretation in Romanticism and Modern Philosophy
Michael E. Schiefelbein, The Lure of Babylon: Seven Protestant Novelists and Britain's Roman Catholic Revival
33.3 (Published Autumn 2001)
Articles
Gerald L. Bruns, “The Senses of Augustine (On Some of Lyotard's Remains)”
Maurice Friedman, “Martin Buber and Mikhail Bakhtin: The Dialogue of Voices and the Word That is Spoken”
Ann M. Begley, “Georges Bernanos' Love Affair with God”
John R. May, “Toward a Christian Personalist Theory of Film”
Book Reviews
William J. Kennedy on:
Thomas J. Farrell’s Walter Ong's Contributions to Cultural Studies: The Phenomenology of the Word and I-Thou Communication
Donald P. Costello on:
Richard A. Blake, S.J.’s Afterimage: The Indelible Catholic Imagination of Six American Filmmakers
Book Notices
Laura Henigman, Coming in to Communion: Pastoral Dialogues in Colonial New England
33.2 (Published Summer 2001)
Articles
Daniel Boyarin, “One Church, One Voice: The Drive Towards Homonoia in Orthodoxy”
Friedhelm Marx, “Transfigurations of Christ in Thomas Mann”
Lynda Sexson, “Bride's Blood and God's Laugh: Reading the Evidence of Desire on 'The Blank Page' of the Torah”
Sheila Hassell Hughes, “Falls of Desire / Leaps of Faith: Religious Syncretism in Louise Erdich's and Joy Harjo's 'Mixed-Blood' Poetry”
Book Reviews
Michael Vander Weele on:
Brian Stock’s After Augustine: The Meditative Reader and the Text
Cheri Larsen Hoeckley on:
Gill Gregory’s The Life and Work of Adelaide Procter: Poetry, Feminism, and Fathers
Kimberly Vanesveld Adams’ Our Lady of Victorian Feminism: The Madonna in the Work of Anna Jameson, Margaret Fuller, and George Eliot
Harold K. Bush, Jr. on:
Andrew Delbanco’s The Real American Dream: A Meditation on Hope
Paul S. Fiddes’s The Promised End: Eschatology in Theology and Literature
Mary C. Grey’s The Outrageous Pursuit of Hope: Prophetic Dreams for the Twenty-First Century
David Bruce Hegemans Plowing in Hope: Toward a Biblical Theory of Culture
Glenn E. Tinder’s The Fabric of Hope: An Essay
Book Notices
Janet Howe Gaines, Music in the Old Bones: Jezebel Through the Ages
G. Ronald Murphy, S.J., The Owl, the Raven, and the Dove: The Religious Meaning of the Grimms' Magic Fairy Tales
33.1 (Published Spring 2001)
Articles
William J. Scheick, “An Inward Power and Authority: John Davenport's Seditious Piety”
Ralph C. Wood, “Lest the World's Amnesia Be Complete: A Reading of Walter Miller's A Canticle for Leibowitz”
John A. Staunton, “Shadowing Grace in the Post-southern South: 'A Roadside Resurrection' and Larry Brown's Narratives of Witness”
Bill Scalia, “Re-Figuring Jesus: Christ and Christ Figures in Jesus of Montreal”
Book Notices
Gale H. Carrithers, Jr. and James D. Hardy, Jr., Age of Iron: English Renaissance Tropologies of Love and Power
Eds. John E. Alvis and Thomas G. West, Shakespeare as Political Thinker
Kristine Ibsen, Women's Spiritual Autobiography in Colonial Spanish America
Douglas D. Hedley, Coleridge, Philosophy and Religion: Aids to Reflection and the Mirror of the Spirit
William D. Hart, Edward Said and the Religious Effects of Culture
Bradford T. Stull, Amid the Fall, Dreaming of Eden: Du Bois, King, Malcolm X and Emancipatory Composition
Eds. Walter Jost and Wendy Olmstead, Rhetorical Invention and Religious Inquiry: New Perspectives
Peggy Rosenthal, The Poets' Jesus: Representations at the End of Millennium
32.3 (Published Autumn 2000)
Articles
Denis Donoghue, “The Analogical Imagination: After Christ and Apollo”
Roger Lundin, “Natural Experience: Emerson, Protestantism, and the Emergence of Pragmatism”
Michael Vander Weele, “Simone Weil and George Herbert on the Vocations of Writing and Reading”
Book Reviews
Todd Pickett on:
Paul J. Griffith’s Religious Reading: The Place of Reading in the Practice of Religion
Roger Lundin's Clarence Walhout, and Anthony Thiselton’s The Promise of Hermeneutics
Michael Clarke on:
Marianne Thormählen’s The Brontë's and Religion
Daniel Hoolsema on:
Martin Priestman’s Romantic Atheism: Poetry and Freethought, 1780-1830
Michael Lackey on:
A.N. Wilson’s God's Funeral
Jeff Robbins on:
Ralf K. Wüstenberg’s (trans. Doug Stott) A Theology of Life: Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Religionless Christianity
32.2 (Published Summer 2000)
Articles
- Daniel Gates, "Faith and Faction: Religious Heterodoxy in the English Renaissance"
Martyrdom
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Candace Lines, “'Secret Violence': Becket, More, and the Scripting of Martyrdom”
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Tom Bishop, “The Burning Hand: Poetry and Reformation in Shakespeare's Richard II"
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Olga Valbuena, "Casuistry, Martyrdom, and the Allegiance Controversy in Donne's Psuedo-Martyr"
Representation and Reformation
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Huston Diehl, “Disciplining Puritans and Players: Early Modern English Comedy and the Culture of Reform”
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Theresa M. Krier, “Hosea and the Play of Identifications in The Faerie Queen I”
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Julia Reinhard Lupton, "Exegesis, Mimesis, and the Future of Humanism in The Merchant of Venice"
Heterodox Intellectual Legacies
- John N. King, “Religious Dissidence in Foxe's Book of Martyrs: Humanism or Heresy?"
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Carol V. Kaske, “Neoplatonism in Spenser Once More”
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Richard Strier, "Shakespeare and the Skeptics"
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Michael Lieb, "Milton and 'Arianism'"
Note: this special issue did not include book reviews
32.1 (Published Spring 2000)
Articles
Michael J. Colacurcio, “'A Strange Poise of Spirit': The Life and Deaths of Thomas Shephard ”
Samuel Schuman, “Beautiful Gate: Vladimir Nabokov and Orthodox Iconography”
Jeannine Thyreen-Mizingou, “Grace and Ethics in Contemporary American Poetry: Resituating the Other, the World, and the Self”
Book Reviews
Douglas J. McMillan on:
Ed. John L. Mahoney, Seeing into the Life of Things: Essays on Literature and Religious Experience
Terence J. Martin’s Living Words: Studies in Dialogues about Religion. American Academy of Religion, Reflection and Theory in the Study of Religion, No. 12
John Morreall’s Comedy, Tragedy, and Religion
Frederick J. Ruf’s Entangled Voices: Genre and the Religious Construction of the Self
Patrick D. Gaffney on:
John Renard.’s Seven Doors to Islam: Spirituality and the Religious Life of Muslims
Muhammad Abdel Haleem’s Understanding the Qur'an: Themes and Styles
Paul J. Contino on:
Eds. Judith Deutsch Kornblatt and Richard F. Gustafson, Russian Religious Thought
Marina Kostalevsky’s Dostoevsky and Soloviev
Brian D. Ingraffia on:
Thomas A. Carlson’s Indescretion: Finitude and the Naming of God
Eds. Jacques Derrida and Gianni Vattimo, Religion
Book Notices
Ann W. Astell, Political Allegory in Late Medieval England
Eds., Stephen B. Dobranski and John P. Rumrich, Milton and Heresy
Tyler T. Roberts, Contesting Spirit: Nietzsche, Affirmation, Religion
Ilkka Mäyrä, Demonic Texts and Textual Demons: The Demonic Tradition, the Self, and Popular Fiction