Invisible conversations : religion in the literature of America /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Waco, Tex. :
Baylor University Press,
[2009]
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| Series: | Studies in Christianity and literature ;
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / by Roger Lundin
- Finding a prose for God: religion and American fiction / Denis Donoghue
- American literature and/as spiritual inquiry / Lawrence Buell
- Variety as religious experience: the poetics of the plain style / Elisa New
- Keeping the metaphors alive: American poetry and transformation / Barbara Packer
- Genres of redemption: African Americans, the Bible, and slavery from Lemuel Haynes to Frederick Douglass / Mark A. Noll
- Balm in Gilead: memory, mourning, and healing in African American autobiography / Albert J. Raboteau
- The race for faith: justice, mercy, and the sign of the cross in African American literature / Katherine Clay Bassard
- Forms of redemption / John Stauffer
- Hamlet without the prince: the role of religion in postwar nonfiction / Alan Wolfe
- "The only permanent state": belief and the culture of incredulity / Andrew Delbanco
- How the church became invisible: a Christian reading of American literary tradition / Stanley Hauerwas and Ralph C. Wood
- "The play of the Lord": on the limits of critique / Roger Lundin.