... York: Cambridge Univ. Press. 2006. xi, 241 pp. $85.00. Culture and Redemption: Religion, the Secular, and American Literature . By Tracy Fessenden. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton Univ. Press. 2007. x, 337 pp. $35.00. Book Reviews Godly Letters: The Literature of the American Puritans...

...Christopher Trigg Abstract This article reconsiders the legacy of American Puritanism in the context of the current controversy around “radical Islam.” The rise of Salafi jihadism has emboldened those who maintain that Islam is incompatible with Western secularity. Liberal responses to this claim...

...Mark Scroggins Thick and Dazzling Darkness: Religious Poetry in a Secular Age . By Peter O’Leary . New York : Columbia Univ. Press . 2017 . xiii, 260 pp. Cloth, $60.00 ; e-book, $59.99 . The Art of Confession: The Performance of Self from Robert Lowell to Reality TV...

... economic in nature—the essay examines the failure of interest-thinking to capture the most important features of conviction or belief (religious or not). To the extent that secular civil society relies on interest-thinking to manage conflicting beliefs, secularism as we know it may be limited...

... in a Secular Age . By Roger Lundin. Grand Rapids, Mich.: Eerdmans. 2009. x, 292 pp. Paper, $26.00. Book Reviews Folded Selves: Colonial New England Writing in the World System. By Michelle Burnham. Hanover, N.H.: Dartmouth College Press. 2007. viii, 222 pp. Paper, $30.00. Ways...

...Linda Margarita Greenberg Borderlands Saints: Secular Sanctity in Chicano/a and Mexican Culture . By Martín Desirée A. . New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers Univ. Press . 2014 . x , 254 pp. Cloth , $85.00 ; paper , $28.95 . Domestic Negotiations: Gender, Nation, and Self-Fashioning...

... : Oxford Univ. Press . 2012 . x, 239 pp . $65.00 . Secularism in Antebellum America: With Reference to Ghosts, Protestant Subcultures, Machines, and Their Metaphors; Featuring Discussion of Mass Media, “Moby-Dick,” Spirituality, Phrenology, Anthropology, Sing Sing State Penitentiary, and Sex...

... to multiply indefinitely. The experience of a religious landscape this diverse was unprecedented and had profound effects on how religious belief was experienced. This essay uses Charles Taylor’s explication of “secularity” in A Secular Age (2007) to briefly consider how the experience of religious diversity...

...Jordan Alexander Stein This essay posits that scholars interested in studying the history of secularism might avail themselves of the tools attendant upon the study of another well-worn historically important but empirically fraught object: literature. Precisely because secularism is a story—a bad...

...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...

...Michael Ziser Under the influence of Calvinist and radical abolitionist John Brown, Ralph Waldo Emerson reconsidered the value of political activism rooted in absolutist and sectarian religious beliefs. Retreating from the earlier declarations of secular and democratic individualism for which he...

...Avery Slater Reading Muriel Rukeyser’s 1938 long poem The Book of the Dead alongside Walter Benjamin’s theories of messianism and “profane illumination,” this essay explores how their work reconceives 1930s Marxist secular politics of redemption along postsecular lines. As a crisis in interwar...

... discourses of literary aesthetics were bound to a set of questions about whether meaning derived from God, language, or man. The literary was not a mark of the secular, understood as the absence of spiritual concerns, but part of a process of thinking about the relationship of individual will to moral law...

... and Madeline Yale Wynne. Although their values were antithetical, Arts and Crafts and New Thought shared striking similarities in the ways they yoked consumption habits to personal well-being and used fiction to understand and endorse popular secular philosophies. These women-led movements shaped enduring...

...-dreadfuls, and pantomimes share a common fascination with the occult forms of sensation obeah enabled, explaining away these experiences as misrecognitions of a stable material reality. Jaudon draws together recent reassessments of the history of the senses by anthropologists and challenges to secularism...

...Peter Coviello; Jared Hickman © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 This content is made freely available by the publisher. It may not be redistributed or altered. All rights reserved. References Asad Talal . 2003 . Formations of the Secular: Christianity, Islam, Modernity...

... —its careful arrangement of the evidence of religion’s inertness, that is to say—is worth considering as an example of what Talal Asad ( 2003 ) once called a “formation of the secular.” This essay considers the text’s many references to a religiosity notable for its insufficiency to be both...

.... of Pennsylvania Press . 2016 . 232 pp. Cloth , $49.95 ; e-book, $49.95 . Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 Postsecular studies have come into their own, and important new studies continue to reevaluate the relationship between the religious and the secular. In medieval society...

... © 2013 by Duke University Press 2013 Announcements Call for Papers: After the Postsecular Rising on the flood of recent work on secularization, secularity, and secular- ism is a term often invested with particular promise—the postsecular. In its finest articulations, the term does...

... York : New York Univ. Press . 2016 . x, 209 pp. Cloth, $89.00 ; paper, $28.00 ; e-book available. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 It has been more than a decade since the publication of Charles Taylor’s A Secular Age in 2007. Along with equally pathbreaking works like...