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Introduction: Religion, Literature, And The Art Of Conversation / Mark Knight -- The Modern Story Of Literature And Religion. The Inward Turn: The Role Of Matthew Arnold / Joshua King -- Religion And The Rise Of English Studies / Dayton Haskin -- Modernism And Religion / Anthony Domestico -- The Influence And Limits Of The Inklings / Trevor Hart -- Modern Debates: Christianity And Literature, Literature And Theology And Religion And Literature / Matthias Bauer And Angelika Zirker -- 9/11 And Its Literary-religious Aftermaths / Mark Eaton -- The Return To Religion: Secularization And Its Discontents / Devorah Baum -- Theory. Postsecular Studies / Lori Branch -- The Importance Of Philosophical Hermeneutics For Literature And Religion / Jens Zimmermann -- Reception / Duc Dau -- Political Theology / Jared Hickman -- Phenomenology / Kevin Hart -- Paul Among The Theorists: A Genealogy Of The New Universalism / William Franke -- The Aesthetics Of Simplicity / Jo Carruthers --^ Form And Genre. Theological Writing: How To Write A Theological Sentence / Stanley Hauerwas -- Rue Saint-augustin: The Remembering Of God / John Schad -- Epic / Peter S. Hawkins -- Religion And Literary Tragedy: King Lear And The Problem Of Evil / Ben Saunders -- Wes Anderson's Messianic Elegies / Emma Mason -- Comedy, Levity And Laughter: Parables Of Agape / Gavin Hopps -- Gothic Fiction And Belief In Every Kind Of Prodigy / Deidre Shauna Lynch -- The Bible And The Realist Novel / Jan-melissa Schramm -- The Literary Afterlives Of Sacred Texts And Traditions. Hosting The Divine Logos: Radical Hospitality And Dostoevsky's Crime And Punishment / Valentina Izmirlieva -- Found In Every Room: Victorian Devotional Literature / Krista Lysack -- The Bhagavad Gita In American Transcendentalism / Alan Hodder -- The Problem Of Buddhism For Western Literature: Edwin Arnold To Jack Kerouac / James Najarian --^ Midrash In Twentieth Century Jewish American Literature / Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg -- The Challenges Of Re-writing Sacred Texts: The Case Of Twenty-first Century Gospel Narratives / Andrew Tate -- The Authority Of Sacred Texts In Science Fiction / James H. Thrall -- Apocalyptic Narration: The Qur'an In Contemporary Arabic Fiction / Ziad Elmarsafy -- The Politics Of Literature And Religion. Judaism And National Identity In Medieval England / Samantha Zacher -- Hospitality As A Virtue In The Winter's Tale / John D. Cox -- Oh, Let That Last Will Stand!: Reading Religion In Donne's Holy Sonnets / Susannah Brietz Monta -- The Life Of A Christian Saint: The Biography Of Fannie Mccray, Born And Raised A Slave / Yolanda Pierce -- Religious Pluralism And The Beats / Luke Ferretter -- From Roshi To Rashi: Leonard Cohen's Interfaith Dialogue / Peter Jaeger -- Reconciliation In South Africa: World Literature, Global Christianity, Global Capital / Colin Jager --^ Imagining Islamism: Representations Of Fundamentalism In The Twenty-first Century Arabic Novel / Arthur Bradley & Abir Hamdar. Edited By Mark Knight. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.