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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (4): 443–459.
Published: 01 December 2022
... with the basic requirements of modern society, including democratic governance”—can be tolerated and indeed can count as valid religion, and not some malign and dehumanizing perversion of a venerable religious instinct. This is what it means for Asad to say that “religion,” in a secular world, names...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (4): 499–520.
Published: 01 December 2022
... by University of Washington 2022 global religion Victorian literature Paramahansa Yogananda world religion Rubaiyat Victorian literary studies has increasingly focused on dynamics of transnationalism and cosmopolitanism. At the same time, religious studies scholars have conceptualized...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (4): 427–442.
Published: 01 December 2022
... to the World We Live In? ” Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 42 , no. 2 : 169 – 74 . Viveiros de Castro Eduardo . 1998 . “ Cosmological Deixis and Amerindian Perspectivism .” Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 4 , no. 3 : 469 – 88 . 15 The anthropologist T...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2009) 70 (1): 67–96.
Published: 01 March 2009
... 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...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (4): 481–497.
Published: 01 December 2022
... to interpret literary texts. Sometimes we have even heeded Asad’s call to analyze religions as cultural formations inextricable from social and political systems. But continuing to call these formations religions , while presuming that everyone knows what religion is, is a problem. Even a pluralistic world...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (4): 539–547.
Published: 01 December 2022
... a Victorian model of world religions. They then model a mode of “connective” reading that bypasses the national and ethnic categories privileged by that older set of comparative methods. Alex Eric Hernandez demonstrates that the devotional practices of people who pray with Jane Austen (a saint substitute...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (4): 373–394.
Published: 01 December 2022
... the sorts of stories I’ve told here, the anecdotal and personal, which require us to think about the real-world effects of our offhand secularism, the way it evacuates the classroom of meaningful discussion of religion—and of existential concerns more generally—in the resulting secularized space and makes...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2013) 74 (1): 29–66.
Published: 01 March 2013
... . The Book That Changed Europe: Picart and Bernard’s “Religious Ceremonies of the World.” Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press . Hutcheson Harold R. , trans. 1944 . Lord Herbert of Cherbury’s “De Religione Laici.” New Haven, CT : Yale University Press . Kenshur Oscar . 1987...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (4): 461–480.
Published: 01 December 2022
... – 125 . New York : Basic Books . Harman Claire . 2011 . Jane’s Fame: How Jane Austen Conquered the World . New York : Picador . Harrison Peter . 1990 . “Religion” and the Religions in the English Enlightenment . New York : Cambridge University Press . Jackson Michael...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1995) 56 (1): 31–53.
Published: 01 March 1995
...-
temological ambiguity inherent in Enlightenment models of geocul-
tural exploration-an ambiguity still present within today’s Western
academic considerations of “Third World Culture”-must in part
account for the contradictions the Essay reveals within Defoe’s thought
on religion and national...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1972) 33 (3): 240–256.
Published: 01 September 1972
... and condemns; man, not Nature or Venus, is respon-
sible for them. Even in that much-noted passage in which Genius seems
to be denying Venus (5.1382-1443), it is worth remarking that he is not
repudiating her allegorical significance. He has gotten caught up in a
survey of the world’s religions...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2006) 67 (1): 31–62.
Published: 01 March 2006
... Potestà (Genoa: Marietti, 1991), 15–36.
For Roger Bacon’s application of similar ideas in support of geographic study see
Amanda Power, “The Views of Roger Bacon on Geography, World Religions, and the
Defence of Christendom as Expressed in His Opus Maius” (PhD diss., Cambridge
University, 2002...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2022) 83 (4): 367–372.
Published: 01 December 2022
... to the conversation. All our contributors agree with Colin Jager that “one cannot simply talk about religion as if it were a single thing in the world” and that “one cannot talk about empire, or race, or the market without also talking about religion, and vice versa, even—perhaps especially—when religion...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2016) 77 (4): 607–609.
Published: 01 December 2016
... disappeared from the world. Yet literary critics have been slow to grasp religion’s enduring relevance and still often write as if the arrival of modern secular individualism somehow marks its passing. For the generalist, then, Unquiet Things offers a searching critique of what Talal Asad ( 2007 : 1...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1960) 21 (3): 208–222.
Published: 01 September 1960
... in the life of a Christian who wanted to practice his religion
in his daily living; he came to insist that man needed to turn to the
world and find useful work to serve others and, ultimately, God
Himself.
Before he came under the influence of Carlyle, Clough’s conception
of God had been derived...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1951) 12 (1): 39–56.
Published: 01 March 1951
.... Gell; but the publication, in the same year, of the merry Both&
of Tober-na-Vuolich: A Long-Vacation Pastoral, instead of the ex-
pected vindication of his conduct,* must have puzzled everyone who
had known him. His thoughts on religion, he said, had not yet become
so clearly defined that he...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1990) 51 (3): 427–445.
Published: 01 September 1990
... of the religious Chaucer
as a mid-twentieth-century phenomenon thus appears, to some,
to be a discrepancy and warrants examination. There are broad
implications for the persistence of religion in a postmodern world
and for readings of Chaucer informed by current literary theory.
The centrality...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2019) 80 (3): 350–353.
Published: 01 September 2019
...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...
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Modern Language Quarterly (1944) 5 (4): 497–498.
Published: 01 December 1944
... to overcome the lead of a
century taken by Catholic Spain in possessing the New World. The
religion of the Indians, reckoned by the meridian of London, was as
the night of ignorant babes; the engrafted religion of Rome was
already well known at home, and hated. The challenge to save souls...
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Modern Language Quarterly (2023) 84 (1): 104–107.
Published: 01 March 2023
..., to borrow language from Coviello ( 2019 : 45), it’s only by becoming “secular moderns,” sorting good religion from bad and finding all the transcendent difference they need in the strange world around them, that the voluntarists “become gods.” References Coviello Peter . 2019 . Make...
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