... of MLQ derives from the material conditions of the COVID-19 lockdown era. It is a happy by-product of the fact that literary scholars (like other folks) were forced to rethink our professional lives during that difficult time. During lockdown the “Religion and Spiritualities Caucus” of the North...

...Lori Peterson Branch Abstract This article explains the puzzling but persistent marginalization of religion and secularism studies—despite long-standing critiques of secularism and the secularization thesis—by examining a vignette from a doctoral exam in English. The article argues...

...Alex Eric Hernandez Abstract This essay explores tensions between the practice of critique and recent calls for nonreductive engagement with global spiritualities, arguing for an approach to these experiences that is informed by the study of “lived religion.” Beginning with a discussion...

...Dawn Coleman Abstract Critiquing the literary-critical habit of approaching religion primarily in terms of individual belief, this essay proposes that the sociologist Danièle Hervieu-Léger’s definition of religion as a “lineage of belief” can reorient literary scholars to religion’s investment...

...Winter Jade Werner; Mimi Winick Abstract Recent developments in the field of Victorian studies include its increasingly “global” or “transnational” scope as well as its “religious turn,” with a proliferation of scholarship on religion from Christian sects to new religious movements...

... Mam: Kiinstler und Kampfer iiz bewegter Zeit. By WALTERA. BERENDSOIIN.Liibeck: Max Schmidt-Romhild, 1965. 259 pp. Thomas Mann: Fzktion, Mythos, Religion. By HERBERTLEHNERT. Stutt- gart: W. Kohlhammer, Sprache und Literatur, Band 27, 1965. 267 pp. DM 13.80, paper. Walter...

...Stephen L. Mooney Copyright © 1961 by Duke University Press 1961 JAMES, KEATS, AND THE RELIGION OF CONSCIOUSNESS By STEPHENL. MOONEY Although the principal characters of Henry James’s The Golden Bowl are all experienced travelers...

... of praise at all. CARROLLE. REED University of Washington La Religion & Marot. By C.-A. MAYER.Genitve: Librairie E. Droz, Travaux &Humanisme et Renaissance, XXXIX, 1960. Pp. 186. The thhe dactylograplzie‘e by C.-A. Mayer, Satire...

... to the wonderful are not close examiners.” ESTHERSHEPHARD Sun Jose State College Die Genealogie der Cotter in Germanischcr Religion, Mythologie und Theologie. By ERNSTALFRED PHILIPPSON. Urbana : University of Illinois Studies...

... of the Chester cycle. ROBERTPOlTER University of California, Santa Barbara The Poet’s Time: Politics and Religion in the Work of Andrew Marvell.’ By WARREN L. CHERNAIK.Cambridge, London, New York: Cambridge University Press, 1983. x...

..., with or without their young fry. Sister Cavanaugh is to be congratu- lated on the thorough job of editing that she has done. HEREWARDT. PRICE University of Michigan Religion and Empire: The Alliance between Piety and Commerce in English Expansion, 1558-1625...

...Victoria Silver Guibbory Achsah. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. ix + 275 pp. $59.95. Copyright © 1999 by Duke University Press 1999 Ceremony and Community from Herbert to Milton: Literature, Religion, and Cul- tural ConJlict in Smenteenth-Century England. By Achsah...

... REVIEWS uses the idea of probability as a way of linking divers facets of the intellectual life of seventeenth-century England. Natural philosophy, religion, history, law, language and literature, all shared a concern for how truth could be established. Moreover, she argues, practitioners...

...Bruce Robbins Enlightenment in the Colony: The Jewish Question and the Crisis of Postcolonial Culture. By Aamir R. Mufti. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2007. xiii + 325 pp.; Guru English: South Asian Religion in a Cosmopolitan Language. By Srinivas Aravamudan. Princeton, NJ...

...Emily K. Bald The Pragmatist Turn: Religion, the Enlightenment, and the Formation of American Literature . By Giles Gunn . Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press , 2017 . 218 pp. Copyright © 2019 by University of Washington 2019 Americanists are often accused...

...Jean David 380 Reviews Diderot’s Treatment of the Christian Religion in the “Eneyclope’die.” By JOSEPH E. BARKER.New York: King’s Crown Press (a branch of the Columbia University Press), 1941. Pp. 143. $2.00. This work was suggested to Professor Barker...

...Colin Jager Abstract This essay summarizes some of the arguments about secularism and secularization that have productively unsettled the study of religion in the past two decades. It then turns to the question of what literary studies can offer to the study of religion. Literary scholarship takes...

...Peter Coviello Abstract This essay takes up two conceptual formations of great consequence to Herman Melville: “religion” and “literature.” Part of what binds them so tightly for Melville is a set of transformative upheavals in liberal culture that we have lately come to know by a different name...

... in comparative religion posed a challenge to the dominant linear and evolutionary historiography of the human, at the same time placing the global primitive at the center of the idea of culture. Advocating a utilitarian theory of art (challenging the Kantian autotelic definition), the period's numerous studies...

..., in particular the religious civil wars of the preceding century. Albeit in the discreetly displaced form of a martyr story set in imperial Rome, the play enacts the violent disorders associated with religion itself and so, by extension, the virtues of the new secular order that theater embodies. 10 See...