2010s
51.3-52.1 Angels and Moderns (published Winter 2020)
Autumn 2019 (published Winter 2020)
Articles
Stephanie Gehring, “Attention, Avoidance, and Tragedy: What Simone Weil Could Have Said About King Lear if She Had Read Stanley Cavell”
Caleb D. Spencer, “Postsecular Conversions: From Traveling Mercies to Fight Club”
Jonathan McGregor, “Black Medievalism: Claude McKay's Late Catholic Poetry"
M. Genevieve West, “Sin and Salvation: Marita Bonner's Early Explorations of Christian Theology"
Robert William Rix, “Divine Improvisations: J. J. G. Wilkinson and Automatic Writing”
Harrison Dietzman, “‘Faith’ is a fine invention”: Emily Dickinson’s Critique of Empiricism"
Philip Irving Mitchell, "The Excessive Event: Four British Church Dramas (1934-1951) and the Phenomenology of the Communion of the Saints"
Forum: Angelic Poetry
Felix Schmelzer, "Introduction"
Michael D. Hurley, "The Fate of Angels in the Nineteenth Century"
Felix Schmelzer, "Feathery Traces: The (Dis)appearance of the Angel in the Work of Mallarmé"
Juan Eduardo Carreño, "Can a Poet Talk with Angels? An Answer from Medieval Angelology"
Dominique de Courcelles, "The Struggle with the Angel"
Romana Huk, "Postmodern Angels"
Book Review Essay
Cyril O'Regan, "The Lure of Literature and Mysticism in Modern Jewish Thought"
Book Reviews
Caroline Gruenbaum on The Andalusi Literary and Intellectual Tradition: The Role of Arabic in Judah ibn Tibbon’s Ethical Will by Sarah J. Pearce
Richard Fahey on Elf Queens and Holy Friars: Fairy Beliefs and the Medieval Church by Richard Firth Green
Kristen Poole on Performance and Religion in Early Modern England: Stage, Cathedral, Wagon, Street by Matthew J. Smith
Claire Falck on Milton and the Burden of Freedom by Warren Chernaik
Giada Pizzoni on The Papist Represented: Literature and the English Catholic Community, 1688-1791 by Geremy Carnes
Gary M. Ciuba on Walker Percy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the Search for Influence by Jessica Hooten Wilson
Michael W. Higgins on Fate and Freedom in the Novels of David Adams Richards by Sara MacDonald and Barry Craig
Kristine Larsen on Editing the Soul: Science and Fiction in the Genome Age by Everett Hamner
51.2
Summer 2019 (published Summer 2020)
Articles
Jonathan A. Cook, “’An Endless Sermon’: Religious Motifs in Melville’s Letters to Hawthorne”
Elizabeth C. Culhane, “Hearing Absence: Shusaku Endo’s Silence and the Dark Night of the Soul”
Melissa Schubert, “Milton Against Humility?: Milton’s Paradise Epics and the Poetics of Humility”
Charles Andrews, “Christian Pacifism and Literary Witness: The Political Theology of Vera Brittain’s Born 1925”
Kristen Drahos, “Nailed and Aflame: Annie Dillard’s Bonaventurian Mysticism”
Book Reviews
David Marno on Poetic Relations: Intimacy and Faith in the English Reformation by Constance M. Furey
Gary Waller on Queen of Heaven: The Assumption and Coronation of the Virgin in Early Modern English Writing by Lilla Grindlay
Matthew J. Smith on The Johannine Renaissance in Early Modern English Literature and Theology by Paul Cefalu
C. Michael Hawn on The Hymnal: A Reading History by Christopher N. Phillips
Jennifer G. Jesse on The Evangelical Party and Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Return to the Church of England by Christopher W. Corbin
Jeanne Campbell Reesman on Continuing Bonds with the Dead: Parental Grief and Nineteenth-Century American Authors by Harold K. Bush
Michael P. Federici on Sectarianism and Orestes Brownson in the American Religious Marketplace by Ángel Cortés
Stephen Tardif on Faith in Poetry: Verse Style as a Mode of Religious Belief by Michael D. Hurley
Jessica Swoboda on Virginia Woolf and Christian Culture by Jane de Gay
Justin Watson on The Wounded Angel: Fiction and the Religious Imagination by Paul Lakeland
Devin Brown on C. S. Lewis’s List: The Ten Books That Influenced Him Most edited by David Werther and Susan Werther
Darryl Jones on America’s Dark Theologian: The Religious Imagination of Stephen King edited by Douglas E. Cowan
51.1
Spring 2019 (published Spring 2020)
Articles
Kelly Budruweit, “Women’s Religions in The Mists of Avalon: Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Postsecular Fantasy”
Laura H. Clarke, “Religion as Idea and Form: The Problem of Epistemology in Robert Browning’s ‘Bishop Blougram’s Apology' and Red Cotton Night-Cap Country”
Andrew Hoogheem,“Neither Anglican nor Female: Androgyny, True Religion, and The Towers of Trebizond”
Matĕj Král, “God, Emperor, and the ‘Disadvantages of Such Great Empires’: An Essay on Franz Kafka”
Nicholas O. Pagan, “Returning to Georges Poulet: Literature, Spiritual Intimacy, and Faith”
Forum: “Religion and Old English Literature,” edited by Daniel Anlezark, Karl Persson, and Jacob Riyeff
Daniel Anlezark, Karl Persson, and Jacob Riyeff, “‘Soð bið swicolost:’ Religion & Old English Literature”
Karen Louise Jolly, “Bridges and Islands”
Ben Reinhard, “The Old English Gloria and the Mystery of Creation”
Jill Frederick, “‘Uton We Hycgan Hwær We Ham Agen’: An Uncertain Christian in the Classroom”
Daniel Anlezark, “Living on the Past”
Jacob Riyeff, “'To þæm stræcstum mynstermonna cynne ȝecyrren': Learning From Monastics on Either Side of a Millennium”
Bret Roscoe, “The Sacramental View of the World in the Old English Wisdom Poetry”
Rachel Kessler, “'Ic eom wunderlicu wiht': Discovering Creation as Sacrament in the Exeter Book Riddles”
Book Reviews
Ashleigh Elser on On Biblical Poetry by F.W. Dobbs-Allsopp
E.J. Hutchinson on The Baptized Muse: Early Christian Poetry as Cultural Authority by Karla Pollmann
Daniel M. Murtaugh on Piers Plowman and the Books of Nature by Rebecca Davis
Scott F. Crider on Loving Justice, Living Shakespeare by Regina Mara Schwartz
Nandra Perry on Conflicts of Devotion: Liturgical Poetics in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England by Daniel R. Gibbons
Elizabeth Hodgson on Death Be Not Proud: The Art of Holy Attention by David Marno
Dwight Lindley on Ascent: Philosophy and Paradise Lost by Tzachi Zamir
J. Columcille Dever on The Vision of the Soul: Truth, Goodness, and Beauty in the Western Tradition by James Matthew Wilson
Ryan David Furlong on Religion of the Field Negro: On Black Secularism and Black Theology by Vincent W. Lloyd
Paul E. Kerry on C.S. Lewis and His Circle: Essays and Memoirs from the Oxford C.S. Lewis Society edited by Roger White, Judith Wolfe, and Brendan N. Wolfe
Jahdiel Perez on God Mocks: A History of Religious Satire from the Hebrew Prophets to Stephen Colbert by Terry Lindvall
50.3
Autumn 2018 (published Autumn 2019)
Articles
Rowan Williams, “‘Relieved by Prayer’: Power, Shame, and Redemption in Shakespeare’s Drama”
Kristina Hochwender, “Illumination: Harold Frederic’s American Clerical Novel”
Joseph Simmons, “Poetic Judgment and the Music of the Spheres”
Kevin Ashenbach, “Thy Speech Serves for Authority”: From Personal Fantasy to Personal Encounter in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night"
Jo Carruthers, “’Esther Summerson’s Biblical Judgment: Queen Esther and the Fallen Woman in Bleak House”
William Coker, “Fake your own Death: Mock-Suicide and the End of Identity in Jean Paul and Zizek”
Book Reviews
Sheila E. Jelen on Moses: A Human Life by Avivah Gottleib Zornberg
G. E. M. Lippiatt on The Knight, the Cross, and the Song: Crusade Propaganda and Chivalric Literature, 1100-1400 by Stefan Vander Elst
Ellen K. Rentz on The Quest for the Christ Child in the Later Middle Ages by Mary Dzon
James H. Morey on The Middle English Bible: A Reassessment by Henry Ansgar Kelly
Christopher Flynn on Transatlantic Trio: Empiricism, Evangelicalism, Romanticism: Essays and Reviews 1974-2017 by Richard E. Brantley
Sean Nolan on Coleridge and Contemplation edited by Peter Cheyne
Timothy Marr on The Islamic Lineage of American Literary Culture: Muslim Sources from the Revolution to Reconstruction by Jeff Einboden
Megan Lease on Principle and Propensity: Experience and Religion in the Nineteenth-Century British and American Bildungsroman by Kelsey L. Bennett
Joshua Mabie on Visionary of the Word: Melville and Religion edited by Jonathan A. Cook and Brian Yothers
Nikhil Gupta on James Joyce and Catholicism: The Apostate’s Wake by Chrissie Van Mierlo
Vincent Lloyd on Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Theology by M. Cooper Harriss
Beth Sutherland on Poetry and Revelation: For a Phenomenology of Religious Poetry by Kevin Hart
50.1-2, Double Issue
Spring-Summer 2018 (published Summer 2019)
Articles
Andrew Ball, “‘Christianity Incorporated’: Sinclair Lewis and the Taylorization of American Protestantism”
David Troupes, “Ted Hughes and the Biological Fall”
Brent Little, “Analogical Language and Religious Ritual in C.S. Lewis’s Till We Have Faces”
Eric Tippin, “G. K. Chesterton Essaying Myth”
Anthony Patterson, “Mary Cholmondeley’s Struggle Towards the Higher Life: Diffuse Christianity, Gender, and Writing in Red Pottage (1899)”
Duc Dau, “Michael Field’s Poetry and Life-Writing: Death (Human and Canine), Conversion, and the Song of Songs”
Claudia Hauer, “Flannery O’Connor and Martin Heidegger: Scientism and Sin in The Violent Bear It Away”
Joshua Pederson, “Dangerous God, Sacred Work: Ned Cobb’s Theology”
Book Reviews
Melinda Nielsen on Consolation in Medieval Narrative: Augustinian Authority and Open Form by Chad D. Schrock
Erin Minear on Staging Harmony: Music and Religious Change in Late Medieval and Early Modern English Drama by Katherine Steele Brokaw
Martin Moraw on Violence and Grace: Exceptional Life between Shakespeare and Modernity by Nichole E. Miller
Maurice Hunt on Volition’s Face: Personification and the Will in Renaissance Literature by Andrew Escobedo
Andrew Lincoln on The Religion of Empire: Political Theology in Blake’s Prophetic Symbolism by G. A. Rosso
Tae Sung on Emerson’s Metaphysics: A Song of Laws and Causesby Joseph Urbas
Jefferson Gatrall on Unorthodox Beauty: Russian Modernism and Its New Religious Aesthetic by Martha M. F. Kelly
Grant Henley on Making Sacrifices: Visions of Sacrifice in European and American Cultures edited by Nicholas Brooks and Gregor Thuswaldner
L. M. Kilbride on Poetic Revelations: The Power of the Word III edited by Mark S. Burrows, Jean Ward, and Malgorzata Grzegorzewska
Christina Bieber Lake on The Forsaken Son: Child Murder and Atonement in Modern American Fiction by Joshua Pederson
Todd Edmondson on Cormac McCarthy and the Signs of Sacrament: Literature, Theology, and the Moral of Stories by Matthew L. Potts
Isabelle Hesse on Third-Generation Holocaust Representation: Trauma, History, and Memory by Victoria Aarons and Alan L. Berger
49.3
Autumn 2017 (Published Spring 2019)
Articles
Joseph Twist, “Between Resurrection and Insurrection: Jesus and the ‘Deconstruction of Monotheism’ in ‘Von der Zärtlichkeit’ by Navid Kermani and ‘ich, jesus von nazareth’ by SAID”
Avram Alpert, “Buddhism between Worlds: Contested Liberations in Kipling, Salinger, and Head”
Leyla Ozgur Alhassen, “A Narratological Analysis of the Story of Ibrāhīm in the Qur’ān: Faith, Family, Parents and Ancestors”
Joshua Taft, “John Henry Newman’s Metrical Experiments”
Christopher Maslanka, “Ȝhat art Þou?’ Spiritual Identity and Category Confusion in The South English Legendary’s Life of Saint Christopher”
Forum: “Literature and the Reformation,” edited by Richard A. Strier and Susannah Brietz Monta
Brian Cummings, “Remembering the Reformation: A Retrospect”
Richard A. Strier, “Doctrine and Life: The Impact of the Reformation”
Susannah Brietz Monta, “Literature and the Contours of Belief”
Beth Quitslund, “‘Without Pity Heare Their Dying Grones’: Metrical Psalms and the Poetry of Sacred Violence”
Kenneth Graham, “The Reformation of Manners and the Grace of the Reformation: Measure for Measure’s Disciplinary Mingle-Mangle”
Gregory Kneidel, “Donne and the Virtue of Religion”
Book Reviews
Katherine Bootle Attié on Nandra Perry’s Imitatio Christi: The Poetics of Piety in Early Modern England
Erin E. Kelly on Ken Jackson’s Shakespeare and Abraham
Holly Crawford Pickett on Jennifer Waldron’s Reformations of the Body: Idolatry, Sacrifice, and Early Modern Theater
Andrea Knutson on Jennifer L. Leader’s Knowing, Seeing, Being: Jonathan Edwards, Emily Dickinson, Marianne Moore, and the American Typological Tradition
Keya Kraft on Roger E. Moore’s Jane Austen and the Reformation: Remembering the Sacred Landscape
Ginger Stelle on Daniel Gabelman’s George MacDonald: Divine Carelessness and Fairytale Levity
Evan Berry on Jeffrey Bilbro’s Loving God’s Wilderness: The Christian Roots of Ecological Ethics in American Literature
Stephen Ingle on Michael G. Brennan’s George Orwell and Religion
Judith Wolfe on Wesley Kort’s Reading C. S. Lewis
Scott Cowdell on Pierpaolo Antonello and Heather Webb (eds.)’s Mimesis, Desire, and the Novel: René Girard and Literary Criticism
Artur Rosman on Lukasz Tischner’s Milosz and the Problem of Evil
Daniel Silliman on Greg Garrett’s Entertaining Judgement: The Afterlife in Popular Imagination
49.2 - Special Issue on Grace
Summer 2017 (Published Spring 2019)
Articles
Micael M. Clarke, “‘Invaded by a Devilish Indian Diamond’: Wilkie Collins’s ‘Sermon for Sepoys,’ The Moonstone, and the Emergence of a Secular Modernity”
Yuri Corrigan, “Comparative Demonologies: Dostoevsky and Ferrante on the Boundaries of the Self”
Jason Lewallen, “Secular Conversion: La Nausée as Formative Fiction”
Marcel DeCoste, “This is My Body: The Saving Knowledge of Suffering Flesh in Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood”
Rebecca Styler, “Josephine Butler, Esoteric Christianity and the Biblical Motherhood of God”
Forum edited by Laura Kilbride and Ryan Pepin
Laura Kilbride and Ryan Pepin, “Introduction”
Simone Kotva, “The Line of Resistance: Ravaisson and Bergson”
Christian Coppa, “Supplicating in Agony and Praise: Anne Vaughan Lock and the Case of the Sinner’s ‘Crye’”
L.M. Kilbride, “‘What I Do Is Me’: On Grace and Sprung Rhythm”
Elizabeth Powell, “Grace-Inflected Forms in David Jones’s The Sleeping Lord and Other Fragments”
Jack Belloli, “Bruno Latour and R. F. Langley: A Graced Encounter”
Ryan Pepin, “‘_Et Vsqve ad Nvbes Veritas Tva_’: Grace and Voice in the Marriage Song"
Featuring a transcript of the 2017-2018 Religion & Literature lecture by Hank Lazer, “Grace, & the Spiritual Reach of Representation”
Book Reviews
J. A. Jackson on Cecilia A. Hatt’s God and The Gawain-Poet: Theology and Genre in Pearl, Cleanness, Patience, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Kevin Laam on Ryan Netzley’s
Lyric Apocalypse: Milton, Marvell, and the Nature of Events
Daniel Swift on David Loewenstein and Michael Witmore (eds.)’s
Shakespeare and Early Modern Religion
Dorothy McMillan on Natasha Duquette’s Veiled Intent: Dissenting Women’s Aesthetic Approach to Biblical Interpretation
Cheri L. Larsen Hoeckley on Richard Hughes Gibson’s Forgiveness in Victorian Literature: Grammar, Narrative, and Community
Thomas W. Stanford III on Maurice Hunt’s The Divine Face in Four Writers: Shakespeare, Dostoyevsky, Hesse, and C. S. Lewis
Griffin Oleynick on Eric Bugyis and David Newheiser (eds.)’s Desire, Faith, and the Darkness of God: Essays in Honor of Denys Turner
Darryl Tippens on Susan M. Felch (ed.)’s The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Religion
49.1 - David Jones Special Issue [Sold Out]
Spring 2017 (Published Summer 2018)
Articles
“David Jones: Towards a Theology of History,”* edited by Anna Svendsen and Jasmine Hunter Evans
Anna Svendsen and Jasmine Hunter Evans, “Introduction”
Tom Villis, “When was ‘the Break’? David Jones and Catholic Ideas of Rupture in British History”
Jasmine Hunter Evans and Christine Pagnoulle, “‘The Agent’: Probing into Agency”
Ewan King, “Narrating Communion: Gwenhwyfar and the Encounter of Chronicle and Critical History”
Joseph Simmons, “David Jones’s Irenaean Theology of History”
Sarah Coogan, “‘You will furnish / that fatigue’: Typological Interpretation and David Jones’s Ambiguous Soldier”
Tom Bromwell, “The Apocalyptic Paratext: The Frontispiece and Tailpiece to In Parenthesis”
Adam Schwartz, “‘Getting into history’: The Great War and David Jones’s Memory”
John David Ramsey, “David Jones, Action, Anamnesis, and the Roman Catholic Mass”
Francesca Brooks, “Liturgy, Performance, and Poetry of the Passion: David Jones and The Dream of the Rood”
Robin D’Souza, “From Egalitarian to Sacramental Community: Re-writing William Morris’s Social Romance in David Jones’s In Parenthesis”
Daniel Gustafsson, “The Making and Unmaking of History: Secular and Sacramental Approaches”
Jean Ward, “The Poet as ‘Rememberer’: Anamnesis in David Jones’s Language”
Paul Robichaud, “David Jones and the Archipelagic Past”
Thomas Berenato, “David Jones and the Ancient Mariner: A History of Forgiveness”
Elizabeth Powell, “The Quest for Sacrament in David Jones’s Poem, ‘A, a, a, DOMINE DEUS’”
Mini-forum, edited by L. M. Kilbride
L. M. Kilbride, “Introduction on Logos”
Catherine Pickstock, "What Does Othering Make? David Jones’s “A, a, a, Domine Deus”
Romana Huk, "Sacrament as ars in the down-to-earth poetics of David Jones (pursued through a reading of his ars[e]-poetica, “A, a, a, Domine Deus”)"
Book Reviews
Susan Van Zanten on D.H. Williams and Phillip J. Donnelly's Transformations in Biblical Literary Traditions: Incarnation, Narrative, and Ethics: Essays in Honor of David Lyle Jeffreyedited
Walter S. H. Lim on eds. David Jasper, Geng Youzhuang, and Wang Hai's A Poetics of Translation: Between Chinese and English Literature
David K. Anderson on eds. James D. Mardock and Kathryn R. McPherson's Stages of Engagement: Drama and Religion in Post-Reformation England
Erin A. Smith on ed. Mary McCartin Wearn's Nineteenth-Century American Women Write Religion: Lived Theologies and Literature
Rick Anthony Furtak on Edward F. Mooney's Excursions with Thoreau: Poetry, Philosophy, Religionby
Nicholas Beauchesne on Matte Robinson'sThe Astral H. D.: Occult and Religious Sources and Contexts for H. D.’s Poetry and Prose
Thomas Berenato on W. David Soud's Divine Cartographies: God, History, and Poiesis in W. B. Yeats, David Jones, and T. S. Eliot
Kathleen Henderson Staudt on Thomas Dilworth's David Jones: Engraver, Soldier, Painter, Poet
Barry Brummett on eds. Michael-John DePalma and Jeffrey M. Ringer's Mapping Christian Rhetorics: Connecting Conversations, Charting New Territories
Scott Dill on Vincent Pecora's Secularization Without End: Beckett, Mann, Coetze
Bryan M. Santin on Christopher Douglas's If God Meant to Interfere: American Literature and the Rise of the Christian Right
Erick Sierra on Liliana M. Naydan's Rhetorics of Religion in American Fiction: Faith, Fundamentalism, and Fanaticism in the Age of Terror
48.3
Autumn 2016 (Published Spring 2018)
Articles
Cynthia R. Wallace, “‘Whatever Else We Call It’: The Great Price of Secular Sainthood in Mary Gordon’s Pearl”
Courtney Palmbush, “The Othea, the Rose, and the Comedy: Christine de Pizan and the Ethics of Gloss”
John Wiehl, “Discarding Predestination in Thomas Cooper’s The Purgatory of Suicides”
Alex Davis, “Story Without End: Perspective, Form, and Interpretation in John’s Apocalypse”
Ken Derry, “Blood on the Wall: Christianity, Colonialism, and Mimetic Conflict in Margaret Atwood’s Cat’s Eye”
Scott Dill, “Toward a Theology of Taste: John Updike’s Creaturely Aesthetics”
Book Reviews
Scott A. Mellor on Ronald Murphy, S.J.'s Tree of Salvation: Yggdrasil and the Cross in the North
David Cook on eds. Dominic Janes and Alex Houen's Martyrdom and Terrorism: Pre-Modern to Contemporary Perspectives
Kevin R. Kritsch on eds. Peter Darby and Faith Wallis's Bede and the Future
Matthew A Rothaus Moser on Sheila J. Nayar's Dante’s Sacred Poem: Flesh and the Centrality of the Eucharist to the Divine Comedy
Timothy Rosendale on Brooke Conti's Confessions of Faith in Early Modern England
David Norton on ed. Angelica Duran's The King James Bible Across Borders and Centuries
Ethan John Guagliardo on Jennifer Rust's The Body in Mystery: The Political Theology of the Corpus Mysticum in the Literature of Reformation England
Erik Larsen on Eric L. Santner and ed. Kevis Goodman's The Weight of All Flesh: On the Subject-Matter of Political Economy
Jonathan Beecher Field on Abram Van Engen's Sympathetic Puritans: Calvinist Fellow Feeling in Early New England
Brian Yothers on Claudia Stokes's The Altar at Home: Sentimental Literature and Nineteenth-Century American Religion
Richard Hughes Gibson on Joshua King's Imagined Spiritual Communities in Britain’s Age of Print
Michael O’Neill on Simon Marsden's Emily Bronte and the Religious Imagination
James M. Van Wyck on Graham Holderness's Re-writing Jesus: Christ in 20th-Century Fiction and Film
Thomas F. Haddox on David Crowe's Cosmic Defiance: Updike’s Kierkegaard and the Maples Stories
Sheila E. Jelen on Isabelle Hesse's The Politics of Jewishness in Contemporary World Literature: The Holocaust, Zionism and Colonialism
48.2
Summer 2016 (Published Fall 2018)
Articles
Shira Wolosky, “The Name of God: Levinas and Judaic Lettrism”
Kyle Vitale, “Grace of Life: Marriage, Campion’s Lord Hay’s Masque, and Sacraments of Conjunction”
Robert Tate, "Conversions of Tragedy from King Lear to The Winter’s Tale
Jordan Carson, “Scapegoating in William Faulkner’s Sanctuary”
David J. Fine, “Mass Appeal: Catholic Education in Muriel Spark’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie”
Karl Plank, “Decentering the Holocaust: What Bezmogis and Englander are Talking About”
Forum: "Rita Felski’s The Limits of Critique”, Edited by Sandra M. Gustafson and Tyler Gardner
Sandra M. Gustafson and Tyler Gardner, “Introduction: Possibilities Beyond Critique”
Lori Branch, “Postcritical and Postsecular: The Horizon of Belief”
Tracy Fessenden, “A Hermeneutics of Resilience and Repair”
Alan Jacobs, “Vulnerabilities and Rewards”
Ryan McDermott, “Conversion and Critique”
Vincent P. Pecora, “Suspicion…Hermeneutics…Religion?”
Rita Felski, “Entanglement and Animosity: Religion and Literary Studies”
Book Reviews
Review Essay by William C. Hackett: “Fitting a Candle for Its Flame: William Franke’s Literary Theologico-Philosophy”
Stephen Prickett on Natasha O’Hear and Anthony O’Hear’s Picturing the Apocalypse: The Book of Revelation in the Arts over Two Millennia
Dorothy Ann Bray on The End and Beyond: Medieval Irish Eschatology, edited by John Carey, Emma Nic Cárthaigh, and Catríona Ó Dochertaigh
Lieke Stelling on Jeffrey Shoulson’s Fictions of Conversion: Jews, Christians, and Cultures of Change in Early Modern England
Kimberly Anne Coles on Jaime Goodrich’s Faithful Translators: Authorship, Gender, and Religion in Early Modern England
Teresa Toulouse on Meredith Marie Neuman’s Jeremiah’s Scribes: Creating Sermon Literature in Puritan New England
Miriam Elizabeth Burnstein on Diane Long Hoeveler’s The Gothic Ideology: Religious Hysteria and Anti-Catholicism in British Popular Fiction, 1780–1880
Michael Tomko on Colin Jager’s Unquiet Things: Secularism in the Romantic Age
Nancy D. Hargrove on Benjamin G. Lockerd’s T. S. Eliot and Christian Tradition
Wily Maley on Hidden Possibilities: Essays in Honor of Muriel Spark, edited by Robert E. Hosmer Jr.
48.1
Spring 2016 (Published Spring 2017)
Articles
Kevin Chovanec, “Stirring Meats: Resurrection Doctrine and the Substance of the Body in The Revenger’s Tragedy”
Andrew Jerome Williams, “Differ with Charity: Religious Tolerance and Secularization in The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe”
Daniel DiMassa, “Varieties of Radical Enlightenment: Secularization as Translation in Goethe’s Autiobiography”
Alyssa Bellows, “Cardinal John Henry Newman’s One ‘Thing’ Needful: The Spiritual Necessity of the Material in Loss and Gain”
Zachary Ugolnik, "Internal Liturgy: The Transmission of the Jesus Prayer in the Philokalia and The Way of a Pilgrim (Rasskaz Strannika)
Edward Upton, “Approaching Nirvana: Skillful Means and Asceticism in T.S. Eliot’s Critique of Arthur Schopenhauer”
Forum: "Two Poems Entitled ‘Psalm’ by George Oppen and Paul Celan,” Edited by Henry Weinfield
Henry Weinfield, “Introduction”
Robert Baker, “The Poetics of Encounter: Paul Celan’s ‘Psalm’ and George Oppen’s ‘Psalm’”
Carsten Dutt, “Celan’s Counter-Psalm: Religious Negativity, Paradox, and the Freedom of Poetry”
Kevin Hart, “On Paul Celan’s ‘Psalm’”
Peter Nicholls, “Psalms: Reading Oppen with Celan and Rilke”
Book Reviews
Clare Costely King’oo on Arthur F. Marotti and Chanita Goodblatt (ed.)’s Religious Diversity and Early Modern English Texts: Catholic, Judaic, Feminist, and Secular Dimensions
Elizabeth Williamson on David K. Anderson’s Martyrs and Players in Early Modern England: Tragedy, Religion and Violence on Stage
James Lambert on David Coleman (ed.)’s Region, Religion and English Renaissance Literature
Alison Shell on Sarah Beckwith’s Shakespeare and the Grammar of Forgiveness, Piero Boitani’s (trans. Vittorio Montemaggi and Rachel Jacoff) The Gospel According to Shakespeare, and Richard C. McCoy’s Faith in Shakespeare
Vanessa L. Rapatz on Nicky Hallet’s The Senses in Religious Communities, 1600-1800: Early Modern “Convents of Pleasure”
Diane Long Hoeveler on Miriam Elizabeth Burstein’s Victorian Reformations: Historical Fiction and Religious Controversy, 1820-1900
Thomas Gardner on Richard E. Brantley’s Emily Dickinson’s Rich Conversation: Poetry, Philosophy, Science
Jack Dudley on Stephen Sicari’s Modernist Humanism and the Men of 1914: Joyce, Lewis, Pound, and Eliot
David C. Jacobson on Ilana Pardes’s Agnon’s Moonstruck Lovers: The Song of Songs in Israeli Culture
Eamonn Wall on Andrew J. Auge’s A Chastened Communion: Modern Irish Poetry and Catholicism
47.3
Autumn 2015 (Published Autumn 2016)
Articles
Robin Kirkpatrick, “The Pace of Praise: Might Theology Walk Together With Literature?”
Deberniere Janet Torrey, “Transcendence and Anxiety in the Prison Letters of Catholic Martyr Ludgarda Yi Suni (1779-1802)”
Anne Nichols, “Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Women in Sacred History: Biblical Criticism, Evolution, and the Maternal Ethic”
Elizabeth Sanders, “An Up-To-Date Religion: The Challenges and Constructions of Belief in _Dracula_"
Robert Baker, “The Sprawling Genius of Thylias Moss”
Michael Vander Weele, “The Human Effort to Exchange Stories and Uwem Akpan’s Child Narrators”
Book Reviews
Karl Persson on Samantha Zacher’s Rewriting the Old Testament in Anglo-Saxon Verse: Becoming the Chosen People
Barbara Newman on A. C. Spearing’s Medieval Autographies: The “I” of the Text
Katherine C. Little on Ian Johnson’s The Middle English Life of Christ: Academic Discourse, Translation and Vernacular Theology
Bernard D. Cooperman on Yaacob Dweck’s The Scandal of Kabbalah: Leon Modena, Jewish Mysticism, Early Modern Venice
Teresa Huffman Traver on Susan E. Colón’s Victorian Parables
T. A. S. Carson on Heidi J. Snow’s William Wordsworth and the Theology of Poverty
Thomas Gaiton Marullo on Elizabeth Blake’s Dostoevsky and the Catholic Underground
Peter Howarth on Luke Ferratter’s The Glyph and the Gramaphone: D. H. Lawrence’s Religion
Kathleen Lipovski-Helal on Jordan Cofer’s Gospel According to Flannery O’Connor: Examining the Role of the Bible in Flannery O’Connor’s Fiction
Paul Franz on Matthew Sperling’s Visionary Philology: Geoffrey Hill and the Study of Words
Tiffany Eberle Kriner on Jennie Chapman’s Plotting the Apocalypse: Reading, Agency, and Identity in the Left Behind Series
George Corbett on Jo Carruthers, Mark Knight, and Andrew Tate (ed.)’s Literature and the Bible: A Reader
47.2
Summer 2015 (Published Summer 2016)
Articles
Mary Christian, “Bought with Silver: Victor Hugo, George Bernard Shaw, and the Economics of Salvation”
Susan Mizruchi, “The School of Martyrdom: Reconsidering Culture and Class in Catcher in the Rye”
Helena M. Tomko, “Muriel Spark’s The Girl of Slender Means at the Limits of the Catholic Novel”
Matthew Potts, “‘Their Ragged Biblical Forms’: Materiality, Misogyny, and the Corporal Works of Mercy in Suttree”
Graley Herren, “Cosmological Metafiction: Gnosticism in Don DeLillo’s Libra”
Lynne Hinojosa, “John Ames as Historiographer: Pacifism, Racial Reconciliation, and Agape in Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead”
Book Reviews
Ankur Barua on Chakravarthi Ram-Prasad’s Divine Self, Human Self: The Philosophy of Being in Two Gītā Commentaries
Harold K. Bush on Nancy Koester’s Harriet Beecher Stowe: A Spiritual Life
Ashon Crawley on Kelly Brown Douglas’s Black Bodies and the Black Church: A Blues Slant
Dennis Danielson on Raymond B. Waddington’s Looking into Providences: Designs and Trials in Paradise Lost
Susanna Fein on Katherine C. Little’s Transforming Work: Early Modern Pastoral and Late Medieval Poetry
Sandor Goodhart on Donald R. Wehrs’s Levinas and Twentieth-Century Literature: Ethics and the Reconstruction of Subjectivity
Jan L. Hagens on J.M. van der Laan and Andrew Weeks (ed.)’s The Faustian Century: German Literature and Culture in the Age of Luther and Faustus
Andromache Karanika on Marguerite Rigoglioso’s Virgin Mother Goddesses of Antiquity
Joseph G. Kronick on Stephen J. Schuler’s The Augustinian Theology of W. H. Auden
Christian Moevs on William Franke’s Dante and the Sense of Transgression: “The Trespass of the Sign”
Lee Oser on David Kastan’s A Will to Believe: Shakespeare and Religion
Stephen Prickett on Robert Crawford’s Young Eliot: From St Louis to The Waste Land
Matthew J. Smith on Kimberly Johnson’s Made Flesh: Sacrament and Poetics in Post-Reformation England
Brian Yothers on James Emmett Ryan’s Faithful Passages: American Catholicism in Literary Culture, 1844-1931
Hannah Zdansky on Barbara Newman’s Medieval Crossover: Reading the Secular against the Sacred
47.1
Spring 2015 (Published Spring 2016)
Articles
Gregory Foran, “Eschatology and Ecclesiology in Macbeth”
Richard Strier, “Mind, Nature, Heterodoxy, and Iconoclasm in The Winter’s Tale”
Charis Charalampous, “Thinking (of) Feelings in Donne’s Poetry: The Signifying Rift and ‘The Evidence of Things Not Seen’”
Travis DeCook, “The Extrinsic Bible: Francis Bacon’s New Atlantis, Concepts of Scripture and The Question of Secularity”
Lucas Kwong, “Killing Alton: The Politics of Spiritual Autobiography in Alton Locke”
Loni Reynolds, “‘A Human Yet Dark Tribute to Life’: The Eucharist in the Work of Gregory Corso”
Forum: “Rethinking the Bible as Literature,” Edited by Emily A. Ransom with Peter S. Hawkins
Book Reviews
Ed Block on Dana Greene’s A Poet’s Revolution: The Life of Denise Levertov by Donna Krolik Hollenberg and Denise Levertov: A Poet’s Life
Lori Branch on Mark Knight and Louise Lee (ed.)’s Religion, Literature and the Imagination: Sacred Worlds
David C. Downing on Rowan Williams’s The Lion’s World: A Journey into the Heart of Narnia
Wendy Furman-Adams on Rachel Trubowitz’s Nation and Nurture in Seventeenth-Century English Literature
Margaret Hallissy on Marion Gibson’s Imagining the Pagan Past: Gods and Goddesses in Literature and History since the Dark Ages
Robin Kirkpatrick on Peter Clarke and Charlotte Methuen (ed.)’s The Church and Literature (Studies in Church History Volume 48)
Ian Newman on Howard D. Weinbrot’s Literature, Religion, and the Evolution of Culture, 1660-1780
Holly Ordway on Alister E. McGrath’s The Intellectual World of C.S. Lewis
Paul Robichaud on Patrick R. Query’s Ritual and the Idea of Europe in Interwar Writing
Paul Rorem on E. Ann Matter and Lesley Smith (ed.)’s From Knowledge to Beatitude: St. Victor, Twelfth-Century Scholars, and Beyond: Essays in Honor of Grover A. Zinn, Jr.
William Shullenberger on Jamey Heit’s Liturgical Liaisons: The Textual Body, Irony, and Betrayal in John Donne and Emily Dickinson
William Svelmoe on Elesha J. Coffman’s The Christian Century and the Rise of the Protestant Mainline
Lara Vetter on Elizabeth Anderson’s H.D. and Modernist Religious Imagination: Mysticism and Writing
John Howard Wilson on Michael G. Brennan’s Evelyn Waugh: Fictions, Faith and Family
Ralph C. Wood on Brenna Moore’s Sacred Dread: Raïssa Maritain, the Allure of Suffering, and the French Catholic Revival (1905-1944)
46.2-3
Summer-Autumn 2014 (Published Autumn 2015)
Articles
Lori Branch, “The Rituals of Our Re-Secularization: Literature Between Faith and Knowledge”
Cyril O’Regan, “August Rivalries: Post-Romantic Contesting of the Biblical Narrative in Harold Bloom and Philip Pullman”
Katy Wright-Bushman and Hannah Zdansky, “Religion in/and/all over Medieval Literature”
Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg, “Time, Memory, Ritual and Recital: Religion and Literature in Exodus 12”
Ann W. Astell and Susannah Brietz Monta, “Genre and the Joining of Literature and Religion: A Question of Kinds”
Vittorio Montemaggi and Regina Schwartz, “On Religion and Literature: Truth, Beauty, and the Good”
Peter S. Hawkins and Fatemeh Keshavarz, “Taste and See: A Religion and Literature Dialogue”
Additional Material
“Literature and Religion for the Humanities: Seven Theses,” from the Mellon Working Group on Religion and Literature
Dallin Lewis’s course syllabus “After Eden: Religion, Literature, and the Environment,” winner of the first annual Religion & Literature Syllabus Prize
Book Reviews
Andrew Giorgetti on Randall Heskett’s Reading the Book of Isaiah: Destruction and Lament in the Holy Cities
Stanley Benfell on Richard G. Newhauser and Susan J. Rudyard (ed.)’s Sin in Medieval and Early Modern Culture: The Tradition of the Seven Deadly Sins
Stephen M. Fallon on Michael Bryson’s The Atheist Milton
Catherine Gimelli Martin on Bryan Adams Hampton’s Fleshly Tabernacles: Milton and the Incarnational Poetics of Revolutionary England
Dustin D. Stewart on Richard J. DuRocher and Margaret Olofson Thickstun (ed.)’s Milton’s Rival Hermeneutics: “Reason Is But Choosing”
David Ainsworth on Laura Lunger Knoppers (ed.)’s The Oxford Handbook of Literature & the English Revolution
Jennifer Snead on Misty G. Anderson’s Imagining Methodism in 18th-Century Britain: Enthusiasm, Belief, and the Borders of the Self
John J. Davenport on Edward F. Mooney’s Excursions with Kierkegaard: Others, Goods, Death, and Final Fate
Susan L. Roberson on Valerie C. Cooper’s Word, Like Fire: Maria Stewart, the Bible & the Rights of African Americans
Andre E. Johnson on Rosetta R. Haynes’s Radical Spiritual Motherhood: Autobiography and Empowerment in Nineteenth-Century African American Women
Stanley Bill on Charles S. Kraszewski’s Irresolute Heresiarch: Catholicism, Gnosticism and Paganism in the Poetry of Czesław Miłosz
Sarah Roger on Annette U. Flynn’s The Quest for God in the Work of Borges
Molly K. Robey on Channette Romero’s Activism and the American Novel: Religion and Resistance in Fiction By Women of Color
Rebecca Ferguson on K. Zauditu-Selassi’s African Spiritual Traditions in the Novels of Toni Morrison
Errata: On p. 129, in the Peter S. Hawkins and Fatemeh Keshavarz dialogue, “like Fatemeh Keshavarz and I” should read “like Fatemeh Keshavarz and me.”
46.1
Spring 2014 (Published Summer 2015)
Articles
Jennifer Sisk, “Unauthorized Desire: Audience and Affect in St. Erkenwald and Lydgate’s St. Austin at Compton”
Geoffrey Nash, “Aryan and Semite in Ernest Renan and Matthew Arnold’s Quest for the Religion of Modernity”
Jennie-Rebecca Falcetta, “Brideshead Illustrated: The Sacred and Profane Aesthetics of Captain Charles Ryder”
Derek C. Hatch, “‘Even When Christ is Not Recognized’: The Thomistic Mediation of Divine Grace in The Violent Bear it Away”
James Clements, “‘The Thing in the Box’: William Golding’s ‘Miss Pulkinhorn’ as Apophatic Literature”
Adam Glover, “Music, Poetry, and Eucharist”
Forum: Emily Dicknson and Religion, edited by Roger Lundin
Roger Lundin, “Introduction”
James McIntosh, “Dickinson’s Kinetic Religious Imagination”
Roger Lundin, “The Tender Pioneer in the Prairies of the Air: Dickinson and the Differences of God”
Richard E. Brantley, “The Interrogative Mood of Emily Dickinson’s Quarrel with God”
Jane Donahue Eberwin, “‘A different God?’: Religious Revelations from Dickinson’s Holland Correspondence”
Victoria N. Morgan, “‘When Bells stop ringing’: Tracing Dickinson’s ‘Circumference’ Through the Tradition of the Praying Circle”
Linda Freedman, “‘And with what body do they come?’: Dickinson’s Resurrection”
Miho Nonaka, “Season of Eternity: The Resonance of Dickinson’s Poems in Japanese”
Thomas Gardner, “Dickinson, Calvin, and the Drama of Perception”
Book Reviews
Susan L. Einbinder on Ryan Szpiech’s Conversion and Narrative: Reading and Religious Authority in Medieval Polemic
Michael Questier on Alice Dailey’s The English Martyr from Reformation to Revolution
Ghanshyam Sharma on Allison Busch’s Poetry of Kings: The Classical Hindi Literature of Mughal India
Nancy Carol James on Patricia A. Ward’s Experimental Theology in America: Madame Guyon on Fenelon, and Their Readers
Scott Krawczyk on Felicity James and Ian Inkster (eds.)’s Religious Dissent and the Aikin-Barbauld Circle, 1740-1860
Susan Matthews on Susanne M. Sklar’s Blake’s Jerusalem as Visionary Theatre: Entering the Divine Body
John Luis Haglund on Eric Ziolkowski’s The Literary Kierkegaard
James McIntosh on Linda Freedman’s Emily Dickinson and the Religious Imagination
Robert B. Shaw on Henry Weinfield’s The Blank-Verse Tradition from Milton to Stevens: Freethinking and the Crisis of Modernity
David J. Leigh on Wesley A. Kort’s Textual Intimacy: Autobiography and Religious Identities
Fatemeh Kesharvarz on Hamid Dabashi’s The World of Persian Literary Humanism
Emmanuel Katongole on Carolyn M. Jones Medine’s Ancient and Modern Religion and Politics: Negotiating Transitive Space and Hybrid Identities
45.3
Published Autumn 2013
Articles
William Junker, “Saint Benedict Among the Brambles: Eros, Ecstasy, and Grace in Gregory the Great and Foucault”
Christopher Knight, “Concerning the Unpredictable: Penelope Fitzgerald’s The Gate of Angels and the Challenges to Modern Religious Belief”
Stephen Platten, “‘They Know Earth Secrets’: Thomas Hardy’s Tortured Vocation”
Brian Walsh, “‘A Priestly Farewell’: The Catholic and Reformed in Pericles ”
William Penny, “ Materia poetica and the order of signs: A study of David Jones’s ‘The Anathemata’”
Joshua Pederson, “The Writer as Dervish: Sufism and Poetry in Orhan Pamuk”
Hospitable Forms: Post-Secular Thought in New-Century Poetics, edited by Romana Huk and Ailbhe Darcy
Romana Huk and Ailbhe Darcy, “Introduction”
Simon Jarvis, “Verse as Counter-Signage”
Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin, “Poetry and the mystery”
Hank Lazer, “Hospitable Texts”
David Marriott, “‘The heat to bear’”
Norman Fischer, “Poetry and Faith”
Stephanie Strickland, “Joined at the Hip: Simone Weil, Quentin Meillassoux”
Sinéad Morrissey, ““Republic of Instability”: Artifice, Death and the Afterlife in Mark Doty’s Murano”
Fanny Howe, “After-Thoughts”
Book Reviews
Matthew P. Brown on Sarah Rivett’s The Science of the Soul in Colonial New England
Stephen B. Dobranski on Russell M. Hillier’s Milton’s Messiah: The Son of God in the Works of John Milton
P. G. Stanwood on Oxford Handbook of the British Sermon 1689–1901, edited by Keith A. Francis and William Gibson et al.
Beth Lau on Laura Dabundo’s The Marriage of Faith: Christianity in Jane Austen and William Wordsworth
Sarah E. Ruble on Albert H. Tricomi’s Missionary Positions: Evangelicalism and Empire in American Fiction
Terence Hoagwood on Devon Fisher’s Roman Catholic Saints and Early Victorian Literature: Conservatism, Liberalism, and the Emergence of Secular Culture
Zach Hutchins on Jonathan A. Cook’s Inscrutable Malice: Theodicy, Eschatology, and the Biblical Sources of Moby-Dick
Thomas Albrecht on Claire Masurel-Murray’s Le Calice Vide: L’imaginaire Catholique dans la Littérature Décadente Anglaise
Don W. King on John Bremer’s C. S. Lewis, Poetry, and the Great War 1914-1918
Felix Ó Murchadha on Iain Thomson’s Heidegger, Art, and Postmodernity
Morny Joy on William C. Dowling’s Ricoeur on Time and Narrative: An Introduction to Temps et Récit
Brigid O’Shea Merriman on Michael Plekon’s Saints as They Really Are: Voices of Holiness in our Time
45.2
Published Summer 2013
Articles
David Ainsworth, “Milton’s Holy Spirit in De Doctrina Christiana”
Jay David Miller, “‘Nature Hath a Voice’: John Woolman’s Wilderness Habitas”
Robert J. Patterson, “A Triple-Twined Re-appropriation: Womanist Theology and Gendered-Racial Protest in the Writings of Jarena Lee, Frances E. W. Harper, and Harriet Jacobs”
Christopher Douglas, “‘If God Meant to Interfere’: Evolution and Theology in Blood Meridian”
Yael S. Feldman, “Isaac and Ishmael? The Sibling Challenge to Israel’s Oedipalized ‘Blinding’”
Gerard Manley Hopkins, edited by Martin Dubois
Martin Dubois, “Introduction”
Daniel Brown, “Hopkins’s Historicity”
Joseph Pizza, "Hopkins and the Catholic Imaginary
Summer J. Star, “The Obedient Mind of Gerard Manley Hopkins”
James Fill Cotter, “Hopkins and the Bible”
Meredith Martin, “Gerard Manley Hopkins and Sacred Language”
Duc Dau, “Hopkins and Bodies”
Frank Fennell, “Hopkins’s [New] Readers”
Book Reviews
Gabriel Said Reynolds on Stephen J. Shoemaker’s The Death of a Prophet: The End of Muhammad’s Life and the Beginning of Islam
Patricia Skinner on Miriamne Ara Krummel’s Crafting Jewishness in Medieval England: Legally Absent, Virtually Present
Marcela K. Perett on Michael Van Dussen’s From England to Bohemia: Heresy and Communication in the Lader Middle Ages
Robert H. Ray on Gary Walker’s The Virgin Mary in Late Medieval and Early Modern English Literature and Popular Culture
Sandra M. Gustafon on Elizabeth Fenton’s Religious Liberties: Anti-Catholicism and Liberal Democracy in Nineteenth-Century U. S. Literature and Culture
Andrew Armond on Charles LaPorte’s Victorian Poets and the Changing Bible
Cyril O’Regan on Simon D. Podmore’s Kieerkegaard and the Self Before God: Anatomy of the Abyss
Michael Scrivener on Kinereth Meyer and Rachel Salmon Deshen’s Reading the Underthought: Jewish Hermeneutics and the Christian Poetry of Hopkins and Eliot
Peter Nicholls on Robert Baker’s In Dark Again in Wonder: The Poetry of René Char and George Oppen
Alvin H. Rosenfeld on Catherine D. Charrerley’s Disenchantment: George Steiner and the Meaning of Western Civilization after Auschwitz
Ken Jackson on Ola Sigurdson’s Theology and Marxism in Eagleton and Žižek: A Conspiracy of Hope
David Humbert on Douglas Hedley’s Sacrifice Imagined: Violence, Atonement, and the Sacred
45.1
Published Spring 2013
Articles
William Franke, “Dante and the Secularization of Religion through Literature”
Victor Houliston, “The Violence of the Knowledge of God: John Donne and the Ordinance of Preaching”
Julien C. H. Smith, “‘You are my witnesses’: Walker Percy, Jacques Maritain and the Jews”
William F. Purcell, “Converting Culture: Reading Chinua Achebe’s ‘Marriage is a Private Affair’ in Light of Bernard Lonergan’s Theology of Conversion”
Caleb Caldwell, "Joy in the Night: “Witness and the Limits of Discourse in Seamus Heaney’s North”
Defining Religion in Milton, edited by Stephen M. Fallon and Karen Clausen-Brown
Paul Stevens, “Literary Studies and the Turn to Religion: Milton Reading Badiou”
Tobias Gregory, “How Milton Defined Heresy and Why”
James Nohrnberg, “The Religion of Adam and Eve in Paradise Lost”
Dustin D. Stewart, “Paradise Regain’d on Socinian Time”
Feisal G. Mohamed, “Milton Against Sacrifice”
Stephen M. Fallon, “Is Milton a Religious Writer?”
Book Reviews
George Aichele on Laura Feldt’s The Fantastic in Religious Narrative from Exodus to Elisha
Alison Milbank on Vittorio Montemaggi and Matthew Threherne, ed.‘s _Dante’s_ Commedia: Theology as Poetry
Susan M. Felch on Ken Jackson and Arthur F. Marotti, ed.’s Shakespeare and Religion: Early Modern and Postmodern Perspectives
Joseph R. Teller on John Saward, John Morrill, and Michael Tomko, ed.’s Firmly I Believe and Truly: The Spiritual Tradition of Catholic England, 1483-1999
Lindsay Reckson on Andrea Knutson’s American Spaces of Conversion: The Conductive Imaginaries of Edwards, Emerson, & James
Joseph Pizza on Kirstie Blair’s Form and Faith in Victorian Poetry and Religion
Todd Avery on Richard Griffiths’s The Pen and the Cross: Catholicism and English Literature, 1850-2000
Joseph M. Meyer on Richard Hardack’s “Not Altogether Human”: Pantheism and the Dark Nature of the American Renaissance
Kevin J. Hayes on Harry Lee Poe’s Evermore: Edgar Allen Poe and the Mystery of the Universe
Roderick McGillis on Bonnie Gaarden’s The Christian Goddess: Archetype and Theology in the Fantasies of George MacDonald
William Hansen on Deeanne Wesbrook’s Speaking of Gods in Figure and Narrative
John Poch on Thomas Gardner’s John in the Company of Poets: The Gospel in Literary Imagination
44.3
Published Autumn 2012
Articles
Anthony Domestico, “The Twice-Broken World: Karl Barth, T. S. Eliot, and Poetics of Christian Revelation”
Darlene Kelly, “‘Of All That Is and of All That Might Be’: Gabrielle Roy’s Teilhardian Ideas”
Michael Roeschlein, “Theatrical Iteration in Stoppard’s Arcadia: Fractal Mapping, Eternal Recurrence, Perichoresis”
Paul Tewkesbury, “Thematizing the Beloved Community: Echoes of Martin Luther King Jr. in Bebe Moore Campbell’s Your Blues Ain’t Like Mine”
‘Acknowledged Convictions’ and Ongoing Conversation: A Forum in Response to Religion & Literature 42.1-2, edited by Katy Wright-Bushman and Robin Kirkpatrick
Robin Kirkpatrick, “The ‘I’ in Question”
Jill Mann, “Making It Up as You Go Along”
Peter S. Hawkins, “We Talk”
Jennifer Bryan, “Of Elephants and the Academic Self”
Fatemeh Keshavarz, “Faith in the Academy: A Visit to ‘Where Fearful Things Are’”
Shawkat M. Toorwa, “Objections to Devotion? (Or Can the Muslim Speak?)”
Carolyn P. Collette, “Hidden in Plain Sight: Religion and Medievalism in the British Women’s Suffrage Movement”
Daniel Powell, “Belief, History, and Engaging the Other: The View from Clifford’s Tower”
Danica Boyce and Alyssa McLeod, “The Living Museum: Processing and Professing History in the Academy”
Theresa Coletti, “Confession, Confessionalization, and the Temporalities of Medieval Religious Studies”
Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, “The Vitality of the Past in the Present: A Response to the Forum on ‘Acknowledged Convictions’ in Religion & Literature 42.1-2”
Asma Afsaruddin, “Un-Reading and Re-Reading the Past: Letting Religion Back into the Academy (Did It Ever Leave?)”
Adrienne Williams Boyarin, “This Is No Museum”
Book Reviews
Jacob Riyeff on Duncan Robertson’s Lectio Divina: The Medieval Experience of Reading
Kantik Ghosh on Ian Christopher Levy’s Holy Scripture and the Quest for Authority at the End of the Middle Ages
Kate Peters on Hilary Hinds’s George Fox and Early Quaker Culture
Richard Hughes Gibson on Michael Wheeler’s St. John and the Victorians
Richard Barz on Rebecca J. Manring’s The Fading Light of Advaita Acarya: Three Hagiographies
Michael Strawser on Chris Danta’s Literature Suspends Death: Sacrifice and Storytelling in Kierkegaard, Kafka, and Blanchot
Fredrick Asals on Susan Srigley ed.‘s Dark Faith: New Essays on Flannery O’Connor’s The Violent Bear It Away
Anne Fletcher on Christopher J. Wheatley’s Thornton Wilder & Amos Wilder: Writing Religion in Twentieth-Century America
Cates Baldridge on Dermot Givalry and Darren J. N. Middleton ed.’s Dangerous Edges of Graham Greene: Journeys with Saints and Sinners
John Edgar Browning on Victoria Nelson’s Gothicka: Vampire Heroes, Human Gods, and the New Supernatural
Ranen Omer-Sherman on Yael S. Feldman’s Glory and Agony: Isaac’s Sacrifice and National Narrative
Sanford Budick on Stephen Prickett’s Modernity and the Reinvention of Tradition: Backing into the Future
44.2
Published Summer 2012
Articles
Alexander T. Wong, “‘Dainty Martyrdom’ and ‘Hot Devotion’ in the Verse of Joseph Beaumont (1616–1699)”
Humberto Garcia, “Blake, Swedenborg, and Muhammad: The Prophet Tradition, Revisited”
D. Marcel DeCoste, “‘A Thing that Even Death Cannot Undo’: The Operation of the Theological Virtues in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road”
Kate Zebiri, “‘Holy Foolishness’ and ‘Crazy Wisdom’ as Teaching Styles in Contemporary Western Sufism”
Evan Chambers, “Re-Opening Dictée: Interpreting the Void in Theresa Cha’s Representations of Christianity”
Walter J. Ong Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow: A Special Centenary Forum, edited by Sara J. van den Berg
Sara J. van den Berg, “Walter Ong on the Road: Research Before the Internet”
Thomas D. Zlatic, “Talking Literature and Religion: Walter Ong”
Paula McDowell, “Ong and the Concept of Orality”
Twyla Gibson, “On the Interface: Between Media Cultures and Words”
Sheila J. Nayar, “Hierophany Through an Ongian Lens”
Jerry Harp, "’Clearest-Selvéd Spark’: Walter Ong as Evolutionary Thinker
Book Reviews
Mary C. Erler on Samuel Fanous and Vincent Gillespie (eds.)’s The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Mysticism
Mary Ellen Lamb on Tiffany Werth’s The Fabulous Dark Cloister: Romance in England after the Reformation
Robert Whalen on Ryan Netzley’s Reading, Desire, and the Eucharist in Early Modern Religious Poetry
James Kearney on James Simpson’s Under the Hammer: Iconoclasm in the Anglo-American Tradition
Steven Marx on Travis de Cook and Alan Galey (eds.)’s Shakespeare, the Bible, and the Form of the Book: Contested Scriptures
Angelica Duran on Peter E. Medicine, John T. Shawcross, and David V. Urban (eds.)’s Visionary Milton: Essay on Prophecy and Violence
Mark Knight on Michael Tomko’s, British Romanticism and the Catholic Question: Religion, History, and National Identity, 1778–1829
Janet Todd on Laura Mooneyham White’s Jane Austen’s Anglicanism
Craig Woelfel on Pericles Lewis’s Religious Experience and the Modernist Novel
Christina Bieber Lake on John J. Han’s Wise Blood: A Reconsideration
Joeri Schrijvers on Tamsin Jones’s A Genealogy of Marion’s Philosophy of Religion: Apparent Darkness
Brett Foster on Hannibal Hamlin and Norman W. Jones (eds.)’s The King James Bible after 400 Years: Literary, Linguistic, and Cultural Influences
44.1
Published Spring 2012
Articles
Graham Ward, “Reading to Live: Miracle and Language”
Samantha K. Seal, “Miraculous History: Fictions of Text and Body in a Ritual Murder Trial”
Jason Crawford, “Bunyan’s Secular Allegory”
J. Jeffrey Franklin, “Buddhism and Modern Existential Nihilism: Jean-Paul Sartre Meets Nagarjuna”
Leslie E. Wingard, “As Seen Through Stained Glass: Religion, Politics, and Aesthetics in Alice Walker’s Meridian”
New Directions in Religion and Literature Criticism of T. S. Eliot, edited by Dominic Manganiello and Craig Woelfel
Dominic Manganiello and Craig Woelfel, eds., “New Directions in Religion and Literature Criticism of T. S. Eliot”
Dominic Manganiello and Craig Woelfel, “Introduction: ‘In our Beginning’”
Craig Woelfel, “T. S. Wliot and our Beliefs about Belief”
Barry Spurr, “Anglo-Catholicism and the ‘Religious Turn’”
Lee Oser, “Back to the Poetry”
Jewel Spears Brooker, “‘Our First World’: T. S. Eliot and the Edenic Imagination”
John Morgenstern, “The ‘Centre of Intensity’: T. S. Eliot’s Reassessment of Baudelaire in 1910-1911 Paris”
Hazel Atkins, “Ways of Viewing Churches in The Waste Land and ‘Little Gidding’”
Ben Lockerd, “‘Superficial Notions of Evolution’: Eliot’s Critique of Evolutionary Historiography”
Book Reviews
Sara Wall-Randell on James Kearney’s The Incarnate Text: Imagining the Book in Reformation England
Holly Crawford Pickett on Molly Murray’s The Poetics of Conversion in Early Modern English Literature: Verse and Change from Donne to Dryden
David Jasper on Jo Carruthers’s England’s Secular Scripture: Islamophobia and the Protestant Aesthetic
Chris Walsh on Timothy Larsen’s A People of One Book: The Bible and the Victorians
Bernadette Waterman Ward on Dennis Sobolev’s The Split World of Gerard Manley Hopkins: An Essay in Semiotic Phenomenology
John Coates on Ian Ker’s G. K. Chesterton: A Biography
Salwa Khoddam on Robert MacSwain and Michael Ward’s, eds., The Cambridge Companion to C. S. Lewis
Devin Brown on Judith Wolfe and Brendan Wolfe’s, eds., C. S. Lewis and the Church: Essays in Honour of Walter Hooper
Andrew Tate on Bernard Schweizer’s Hating God: The Untold Story of Misotheism
Anthony B. Pinn on William David Hart’s Afro-Eccentricity: Beyond the Standard Narrative of Black Religion
Terrence Neal Brown on David Lyle Jeffrey and Gregory Maillet’s Christianity and Literature: Philosophical Foundations and Critical Practice
Romana Huk on Norman Finkelstein’s On Mount Vision: Forms of the Sacred in Contemporary American Poetry
43.3
Published Autumn 2011
Articles
James Simpson, “No Brainer: The Early Modern Tragedy of Torture”
Kay Young, “Kierkegaard’s Claim of Mutuality and Its Problem of Representation”
James Matthew Wilson, “’_The Rock_ against Shakespeare: Stoicism and Community in T. S. Eliot”
Nathan Kilpatrick, “Singing a New Song from the Conqueror’s Music: Religious Hybridity in The Poisonwood Bible”
Benjamin Mangrum, “Democracy, Justice, and Tragedy in Cormac McCarthy’s No Country for Old Men”
Forum: Deceit, Desire, and the Novel Fifty Years Later—The Religious Dimension, edited by Ann W. Astell and J. A. Jackson
Ann W. Astell and J. A. Jackson, eds., “Deceit, Desire, and the Novel Fifty Years Later—The Religious Dimension”
Ann W. Astell and J. A. Jackson, “Introduction”
Wolfgang Palaver, “‘Creative Renunciation’: The Spiritual Heart of René Girard’s _Deceit, Desire, and the Novel”
Sandor Goodhart, “Reading Religion, Literature, and the End of Desire: Mensonge Romantique et Vérité Romanesque at Fifty”
Benoît Chantre (trans. Trevor Cribbon Merrill), “The Steeple of Combray: From ‘Vertical’ to ‘Deviated’ Transcendence”
Pierpaolo Antonello, “The Novel, Deviated Transcendancy, and Modernity”
Robert Doran, “René Girard’s Concept of Conversion and the Via Negativa: Revisiting Deceit, Desire, and the Novel with Jean-Paul Sartre”
J. A. Jackson, “Freedom and Otherness: The Religious Dimension of Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground”
Ann W. Astell, “The Writer as Redeemed Prostitute: Girard’s Reading of Dostoevsky’s Notes from Underground”
William A. Johnsen, “Modern Sacrifice”
Heather Webb, “Deceit, Desire, and Conversion in Girard and Dante”
Book Reviews
Maija Birenbaum on Adrienne Williams Boyarin’s Miracles of the Virgin in Medieval England: Law and Jewishness in Marian Legends
Sherry L. Reames on David Williams’s Saints Alive: Word, Image, and Enactment in the Lives of the Saints
Scott Lucas on John N. King’s Tudor Books and Readers: Materiality and the Construction of Meaning
Jill R. Fehleison on S. K. Barker’s Protestantism, Poetry, and Protest: The Vernacular Writings of Antoine de Chandieu (c. 1534-1591)
Jeanne Shami on Chanita Goodblatt’s The Christian Hebraism of Jonne Donne: Written with the Fingers of Man’s Hand
Jason P. Rosenblatt on Achsah Guibbory’s Christian Identity, Jews, and Israel in Seventeenth-Century England
Irving Massey on Sheila A. Spector’s Byron and the Jews
Michael Tomko on Jonathan Roberts’s Blake. Wordsworth. Religion.
Catherine E. Paul on Sean Pryor’s W. B. Yeats, Ezra Pound and the Poetry of Paradise
Gary M. Ciuba on L. Lamar Nisly’s Wingless Chickens, Bayou Chatholics, and Pilgrim Wayfarers: Constructions of Audience and Tone in O’Connor, Gautreaux, and Percy
Larry D. Bouchard on William Franke’s Poetry and Apocalypse: Theological Disclosures of Poetic Language
Sheila E. Jelen on Dan Miron’s From Continuity to Contiguity: Toward A New Jewish Literacy Thinking
43.2
Published Summer 2011
Articles
Joseph P. Amar, “Christianity at the Crossroads: The Legacy of Ephrem the Syrian”
Kevin R. West, "Julian of Norwich’s “Great Deed” and Tolkien’s Eucatastrophe
Felicia Bonaparte, “‘Let Other Pens Dwell on Guilt and Misery’: The Ordination of the Text and the Subversion of ‘Religion’ in Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park”
Susan E. Colón, “‘This Twittering World’: T. S. Eliot and Acedia”
Andrew Hoogheem, “None of the Above: Walker Percy’s Postsecular Narrative”
Forum: “Turn It and Turn It: A Forum on Contemporary Midrash,” edited by Alicia Ostriker
Alicia Ostriker, “Introduction”
Rivkah M. Walton, “Lilith’s Daughters, Miriam’s Chorus: Two Decades of Feminist Midrash”
Rabbi Jill Hammer, “Sexuality as Revelation in the Writings of Yehuda Amichai and Veronica Golos”
Eric Murphy Selinger, “Midrashic Poetry and Ribboni Poetics (With Special Reference to the Work of Joy Ladin and Peter Cole)”
Merle Feld, “Across the Jordan: The Making of a Midrashic Play”
Peter Pitzele, “The Midrashic Jew”
Norman Finkelstein, “Total Midrash”
Monica Osborne, “Making the Wound Visible: On Midrash and Catastrophe”
Rachel Barenblat, “Transformative Work: Midrash and Fanfiction”
Book Reviews
Theresa Coletti on Nicole R. Rice's Lay Piety and Religious Discipline in Middle English Literature
Denise Despres on ed Helen Phillips's Chaucer and Religion
Jesse M. Lander on David N. Beauregard's Catholic Theology in Shakespeare’s Plays; John D. Cox's Seeming Knowledge: Shakespeare and Skeptical Faith; John Klause's Shakespeare, the Earl and the Jesuit
Sheila A. Spector on Fred Parker's The Devil as Muse: Blake, Byron, and the Adversary
David K. O’Connor on Cathy Gutierrez's Plato’s Ghost: Spiritualism in the American Renaissance
James Matthew Wilson on Timothy J. Sutton's Catholic Modernists, English Nationalists; Barry Spurr's “Anglo-Catholic in Religion”: T. S. Eliot and Christianity
Tamas Dobozy on Michael G. Brennan's Graham Greene: Fictions, Faith, and Authorship
Mark Bosco, S. J., on Mary R. Reichardt's Between Human and Divine: The Catholic Vision in Contemporary Literature
Gary Waller on eds. David Gay and Stephen R. Reimer's Locating the Past/Discovering the Present: Perspectives on Religion, Culture, and Marginality
Kenneth Womack on Wayne C. Booth's The Knowing Most Worth Doing: Essays on Pluralism, Ethics, and Religion
43.1
Published Spring 2011
Articles
William Franke, “Homer’s Musings and the Divine Muse: Epic Song as Invention and as Revelation”
Maurice Hunt, “A New Taxonomy of Shakespeare’s Pagan Plays”
Roger E. Moore, “The Hidden History of Northanger Abbey: Jane Austen and the Dissolution of the Monasteries”
David Crowe, “Young Man Angstrom: Identity Crisis and the Work of Love in Rabbit, Run”
Lachlan Brown, “‘A Name I Never Heard Till Now’: Reading Kevin Hart’s ‘Peniel’”
Forum: “The Place of Islam in Contemporary European Literature,” edited by Catherine Perry and Alison Rice
Anthony Monta, “Introduction: The Place of Islam in Contemporary European Literature”
Alek Baylee Toumi, “Literature and Power: Muslims vs. Islamists”
Hafid Gafaïti, “Islam and the Administration of Aesthetics”
Robin Yassin-Kassab, “Islam and the Process of Writing”
Laila Lalami, “Writing Muslims”
Muneeza Shamsie, “South Asian Muslims: Fiction and Poetry in English”
Salim Bachi, “The Place of Islam in Literature: Geography, Memory, and Exile”
Azouz Begag, “When I Write, it is I that I Write!”
Malika Mokeddem, “Geography of an Exile”
Leïla Sebbar, “I Write in Arabic, a Foreign Language in our Home, I Write of God, a Foreigner in Our Home’”
Youssef Seddik, “The Nowhere of Prose and Fiction”
Book Reviews
Gregory B. Stone on E.D. Karampetsos's Dante and Byzantium
Micheline White on Michele Osherow's Biblical Women’s Voices in Early Modern England
Karen Clausen-Brown on Ryan J. Stark's Rhetoric, Science, and Magic in Seventeenth-Century England
Essaka Joshua on Sarah Houghton-Walker's John Clare’s Religion
Qiana J. Whitted on Katherine Clay Bassard's Transforming Scriptures: African American Women Writers and the Bible
David Borgmeyer on Judith Deutsch Kornblatt's Divine Sophia: The Wisdom Writings of Vladimir Solovyov, Including Annotated Translations by Boris Jakim, Judith Deutch Kornblatt, and Laury Magnus
Bainard Cowan on Robert Alter's Pen of Iron: American Prose and the King James Bible
Shira Wolosky on Christopher J. Knight's Omissions are not Accidents: Modern Apophaticism from Henry James to Jacques Derrida
Priscilla A. Hayden-Roy on Barry Stephenson's Veneration and Revolt: Hermann Hesse and Swabian Pietism
Beverly Matiko on Colleen Warren's Annie Dillard and the Word Made Flesh: An Incarnational Theory of Language
Everett Hamner on Amy Hungerford's Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion since 1960
42.3
Published Autumn 2010
Articles
Glenn Clark, “Zeal or Vengeance?: Ministerial Emotion, Performance, and Pastoral Figures in Marston and Shakespeare”
Wesley Kort, “Between Conrad’s London and Sacred Space”
James Matthew Wilson, “Style and Substance: T.S. Eliot, Jacques Maritain, and Neo-Thomism”
Karl Plank, “Why Dead Men Don’t Praise God: A Post-Holocaust Reckoning in the Poetry of Glatstein and Osherow”
Peter Matthews Wright, "After Smith: Romancing the Text When ‘Maps Are All We Possess’”
Forum: “Poetry and Devotion,” edited by Hannibal Hamlin
Gary Kuchar, “Prayer Terminable and Interminable: George Herbert and the Art of Estrangement”
Carl Phillips, “As for a Poetry of Devotion”
Peter S. Hawkins, "Dante’s Poema Sacro: No Either/Or
Andrew Hudgins, “Some Paradoxes of Religious Poetry”
Manijeh Mannani, “The Metaphysics of the Heart in the Sufi Poetry of Rumi”
Alicia Ostriker, “Without Commandments: One Poet’s Quest for the Beloved”
Catherine L. Phillips, “Poetry and Prayer in the Work of Gerard Manley Hopkins”
Roger Ferlo, “Curing the Ground”
Erica Longfellow, “Poetry, the Self, and Prayer”
Alison Shell, “Hymns and Prosopopoeia: Samuel Crossman’s ‘My Song is Love Unknown’”
John Felstiner, “‘Apostate Only am I True’: Paul Celan’s Poetry and his Devotion”
Book Reviews
Kevin Kalish on eds. Frances Young, Lewis Ayres, and Andrew Louth's The Cambridge History of Early Christian Literature
Barbara Newman on Christine F. Cooper-Rompato's The Gift of Tongues: Women’s Xenoglossia in the Later Middle Ages
Genelle Gertz on ed. Kathryn Kerby-Fulton's Women and the Divine in Literature before 1700: Essays in Memory of Margot Louis
Anne Lake Prescott on Gregory Kneidel's Rethinking the Turn to Religion in Early Modern English Literature: The Poetics of All Believers
Daniel Novak on Heidi Kaufman's English Origins, Jewish Discourse, and the Nineteenth-Century British Novel: Reflections on a Nested Nation
Henry McDonald on eds. Donald R. Wehrs and David P. Haney's Levinas and Nineteenth-Century Literature: Ethics and Otherness from Romanticism through Realism
Tom Marullo on Alexander Boot's God and Man According to Tolstoy
L. Lamar Nisly on Douglas Alan Walrath's Displacing the Divine: The Minister in the Mirror of American Fiction
Leslie Wingard on Qiana J. Whitted's “A God of Justice?”: The Problem of Evil in Twentieth-Century Black Literature
Andrew Hoogheem on Virgil Nemoianu's Postmodernism and Cultural Identities: Conflicts and Coexistence
David Jasper on John C. Waldmeir's Cathedrals of Bone: The Role of the Body in Contemporary Catholic Literature
Bradley Pickens on David Jasper's The Sacred Body: Asceticism in Religion, Literature, Art, and Culture
42.1-2
Published Spring-Summer 2010
Articles
Introduction
Kathryn Kerby-Fulton, University of Notre Dame, “‘Something Fearful’: Medievalist Scholars on the ‘Religious Turn’”
PART I, Three Abrahamic Dialogues
Adrienne Williams Boyarin, “Desire for Religion: Mary, a Murder Libel, a Jewish Friar, and Me”
Daniel Boyarin, “Nostalgia for Christianity: Getting Medieval Again”
Jonathan Juilfs, “‘Reading the Bible Differently’: Appropriations of Biblical Authority in an Heretical Mystical Text, Marguerite Porete’s The Mirror of Simple Souls”
Denise L. Despres, “Sacramentals and Ghostly Sights”
Asma Afsaruddin, “Literature, Scholarship, and Piety: Negotiating Gender and Authority in the Medieval Muslim World”
Hibba Abugideiri, “Revisiting the Islamic Past, Deconstructing Male Authority: The Project of Islamic Feminism”
PART II, Not Just a Museum: Medieval Texts and Modern Belief
James Simpson, “‘Not Just a Museum’? Not so Fast”
Nicole Klan, “Margery Kempe and Pentecostalism”
Susan Einbinder, “Meir Alguades: History, Empathy, and Martyrdom”
Margot Fassler, “History and Practice: The Opening of Hildegard’s Scivias in a Liturgical Framework”
Amira El-Azhary Sonbol, “Shari’ Court Records and Fiqh as Sources of Women’s History”
PART III, The Elephant in the Room
Dyan Elliott, “Historical Faith/Historian’s Faith”
Richard Kieckhefer, “Today’s Shocks, Yesterday’s Conventions”
Barbara Newman, “Coming Out of the (Sacristy) Closet”
Suzanne Conklin Akbari, “The Object of Devotion: Fundamentalist Perspectives on the Medieval Past”