... © 2008 by Duke University Press 2008 Godly Letters: The Literature of the American Puritans . By Michael J. Colacurcio. Notre Dame, Ind.: Univ. of Notre Dame Press. 2006. xix, 650 pp. $50.00. Early American Women Critics: Performance, Religion, Race . By Gay Gibson Cima. New...

...Laura Henigman Duke University Press 2007 New England's Crises and Cultural Memory: Literature, Politics, History, Religion, 1620-1860 . By John McWilliams. Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2004. xii, 366 pp. $ 75.00. Book Reviews New England’s Crises and Cultural...

... and Culture . By Fenton Elizabeth . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . 2011 . xi, 178 pp. $65.00 . Strange Jeremiahs: Civil Religion and the Literary Imaginations of Jonathan Edwards, Herman Melville, and W. E. B. DuBois . By Stewart Carole Lynn . Albuquerque : Univ. of New Mexico...

...: Robey Religion and Race in Women’s Holy Land Writings During a climactic scene in Maria Susanna Cum- mins’s novel El Fureidîs (1860), floodwaters surge upon the title vil- lage, an idyllic town nestled in the valley of Mount Lebanon. Havilah, a woman...

...Danielle Christmas Barbaric Culture and Black Critique: Black Antislavery Writers, Religion, and the Slaveholding Atlantic . By Stefan M. Wheelock . Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia Press . 2016 . xiii, 216 pp. Cloth , $69.50 ; paper, $29.50 ; e-book, $29.50 . Black Well...

...Kenyon Gradert Copyright © 2020 by Duke University Press 2020 The study of religion in American literature has long been shaped around postsecular theory, but signs of fatigue have emerged. Tracy Fessenden concludes that the paradigm has unhelpfully sacralized literature, while Peter...

...Cynthia Wu Activism and the American Novel: Religion and Resistance in Fiction by Women of Color . By Romero Channette . Charlottesville : Univ. of Virginia Press . 2012 . viii , 217 pp. Cloth , $55.00 ; paper , $22.50 . Guerrillas in the Industrial Jungle: Radicalism’s...

...Dana Phillips Duke University Press 2006 Making Nature Sacred: Literature, Religion, and Environment in America from the Puritans to the Present . By John Gatta. New York: Oxford Univ. Press. 2004. xii, 291 pp. Paper, $24.95. Natural Life: Thoreau's Worldly Transcendentalism...

...Toni Wall Jaudon In a recent journal issue, Jordan Alexander Stein and Justine Murison observe that work on non-Protestant religions has the potential to upend conventional accounts of religion’s place in British America. Taking up that challenge, Jaudon’s essay discusses Revolutionary-era literary...

...John Morán González Spiritual Mestizaje: Religion, Gender, Race, and Nation in Contemporary Chicana Narrative . By Delgadillo Theresa . Durham, NC : Duke Univ. Press . 2011 . xiv, 275 pp. Paper , $23.95 . Hispanic Immigrant Literature: El Sueño del Retorno . By Kanellos...

...Shirley Samuels The Altar at Home: Sentimental Literature and Nineteenth-Century American Religion . By Stokes Claudia . Philadelphia : Univ. of Pennsylvania Press . 2014 . 281 pp. Cloth , $59.95 ; e-book, $59.95 . Apocalyptic Sentimentalism: Love and Fear in U.S. Antebellum...

... boxes—will never mean the same thing again. Robert Blair St. George, University of Pennsylvania Exodus! Religion, Race, and Nation in Early Nineteenth-Century Black America. By Eddie S. Glaude Jr. Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press. 2000. x, 216 pp. Cloth, $42.00; paper, $16.00. This book makes...

... science-religion, religion-humanities, and humanities-science divides. Specifically, Powers reveals the extent to which genes are gaining sacrosanct status in U.S. culture, and in response offers a postsecular, metanarratival science fiction that contextualizes some of the more inflated rhetoric...

... religion and Protestantism that seeks to represent the phenomenology of secularity, to understand the motives for religious establishment, and to imagine postestablishment alternatives. The novel’s concluding vision of religious toleration achieved through sentimental domesticity—although more inclusive...

...Danielle Haque This essay argues that contemporary discourses around postsecularism in literature do not adequately express the concerns of Muslim American writers who are reimaging how they can practice their religion within the specificity of the US secular context. It examines the ways Mohja...

...: Resurgent Religion and World Politics . Washington, DC : Ethics and Public Policy Center ; and Grand Rapids, MI .: Eerdmans . Carter J. Kameron . 2008 . Race: A Theological Account . New York : Oxford Univ. Press . Casanova José . 1994 . Public Religions in the Modern World...

... together, these books demonstrate the outflowing of our new postsecularism. They detail the way religion intertwines with categories of the secular, the public sphere, and race through arguments with expansive spans. In both books, but especially Miller’s, the long trajectories can sometimes leave large...

... to religiosity but the very conditions for belief—religious and otherwise—in modernity. A secular age, therefore, did not herald the twilight of religion but made possible the rapid pluralization of nominally religious and nonreligious belief systems. Two recent books reveal the stark differences in method...

... geography behind—we are grappling now with some of the consequences of the negotiation between religion and other cul- tural formations that crystallized as secular civil society, mainly dur- ing Franklin’s lifetime. We’re grappling as well with the limits of tol- erance as a paradigm for managing...

... that the development of modern democracy in the West was a long, troubled process to which Christian Puritanism made an important contribution (65–66). Yet these comparisons between Christian Puritans and Muslim radicals are misleading insofar as they associate political religion with the West’s past and Islam’s...