Invisible Conversations
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American literature offers exceptional resources for understanding the complex role religion has played in the life of the culture and in the experience of its people. In recent decades, however, the academic study of that literature has largely treated religion, in the words of a noted scholar, as an "invisible domain." In joining the rich conversations that have enlivened American culture for centuries, Invisible Conversations seeks to bring to light the vital role that religion has played in the literature of the United States.
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Introduction by Roger Lundin
Part 1 Religion and American Fiction
1. Finding a Prose for God: Religion and American Fiction
Denis Donoghue
2. American Literature and/as Spiritual Inquiry
Lawrence Buell
Part 2 Religion and American Poetry
3. Variety as Religious Experience: The Poetics of the Plain Style
Elisa New
4. Keeping the Metaphors Alive: American Poetry and Transformation
Barbara Packer
Part 3 Literature, Religion, and the African American Experience
5. Genres of Redemption: African Americans, the Bible, and Slavery from Lemuel Haynes to Frederick Douglass
Mark A. Noll
6. Balm in Gilead: Memory, Mourning, and Healing in African American Autobiography
Albert J. Raboteau
7. The Race for Faith: Justice, Mercy, and the Sign of the Cross in African American Literature
Katherine Clay Bassard
8. Forms of Redemption
John Stauffer
Part 4 Literature, Religion, and American Public Life
9. Hamlet without the Prince: The Role of Religion in Postwar Nonfiction
Alan Wolfe
10. "The Only Permanent State": Belief and the Culture of Incredulity
Andrew Delbanco
Part 5 Theology and American Literature
11. How the Church Became Invisible: A Christian Reading of American Literary Tradition
Stanley Hauerwas and Ralph C. Wood
12. "The Play of the Lord": On the Limits of Critique
Roger Lundin
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