...Silke Horstkotte This article approaches postsecularity from a historical angle by considering three recent German-language novels which reflect present-day ambivalences regarding religion and secularity through a genealogy of the present. Daniel Kehlmann’s Measuring the World , Ilija Trojanow’s...

...James Hodkinson; Silke Horstkotte Introducing the Postsecular: From Conceptual Beginnings to Cultural Theory James Hodkinson University of Warwick Silke Horstkotte Leipzig University 1. Secular or Postsecular? Religion, for decades an apparently marginal area of interest in the domi- nantly...

... at work in religiously inspired jazz. It distinguishes different levels of religious meaning, purpose, and spiritual experience. In so doing, it explores productive resonances between the characteristics of jazz and Paul Corrigan’s definition of “postsecular” American poetry written in the late twentieth...

...Matthew Wickman Postsecular thought and criticism involves heightened attention to religious feeling as well as to religious practices. Such feeling, often described as spirituality, enjoys broad cultural currency, though it is far less frequently an object of scholarly attention in the humanities...

..., it illuminates the function of the postsecular as a mode of engagement in contemporary Russian culture. A Sinner or a Criminal? The Judgment of Oleg Mavromatti under Article 282 Darja Filippova Princeton University Abstract This article discusses the performance events Do Not Believe Your Eyes (2000) and Ally...

... to represent and explain the mystery, not only constitutes a postsecular theme but also occasions the search, at times inherent to artistic form, at times explicit and self-reflexive, for an appropriately postsecular televisual aesthetics. Returning Again: Resurrection Narratives and Afterlife Aesthetics...

... as the mark of a unique novelistic outlook toward the pertinence of transcendence in a postsecular world, but also engages with previous readings of allegory in Coetzee's work to posit a different understanding of allegory to be a conscious textual choice that both separates and ties together “fallen...

..., and comics studies, and she has published widely in all these areas. Her current book projects focus on focalization in graphic narrative and on postsecular German literature. Taylor Johnston is a postdoctoral fellow at the Center for the Study of theUnited States in partnership with the Fulbright Program...

... research and teaching interests encompass transcultural intellectual and lit- erary history (with a focus on Russia, Poland, and Germany), intermedia studies (relationships between literature, visual arts, film, and theater), nar- ratology, digital humanities, and postsecular studies ( Jewish...

..., Submission, unreliable narrator, narrative voice, Isla- mophobia 1. Houellebecq, Postsecularism, and French Identity Crisis Michel Houellebecq is a writer whose work can clearly be seen to map the postsecular turn in contemporary culture. The French novelist s earlier work in particular Extension du domaine...

... as utter- ances in one idiom. These books, an essay collection by various scholars and three monographs, have a common origin in discussions that have taken place at an ongoing seminar, which has been held for about a decade, on (not only but in particular) Jewish postsecular thought. The seminar...