On Assignment, Virgil Rescues Dante from the Wilderness
A Divine Comedy reading group with two artist friends deepens the author’s understanding of Dante’s transcendent friendship with Virgil. By Diane Mehta
Category: Religion and Literature
A Heart-Shaped Rock
Emerson never relinquished his belief in the intimate colloquy of mind and matter. By Susan Lanzoni
Paths of Coincidence in Thomas Hardy
The melodramatic aspects of Thomas Hardy’s novels lend themselves to an examination of the ordinary uncertainty of life—the landscape of Michael Jackson’s Coincidences: Synchronicity, Verisimilitude, and Storytelling. By Maria Cecilia Holt
Dune, or the Order of Time
Convergences of messianism, religion, and politics in Frank Herbert’s Dune and Dune Messiah resonate with his time and our own. By Charles M. Stang
Ways of Knowing, Ethics of Care in Piranesi’s Labyrinth
Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi evokes an ethics of care within a mythical landscape haunted by continuous loss. By Courtney Sender
Today, Tomorrow, and the Next Day
Reflecting on a Lenten lectionary reading from the Gospel of Luke. By Matthew Ichihashi Potts
‘Literature is Common Ground’: On Reading Virginia Woolf
A Q&A with Stephanie Paulsell on her latest book, Religion Around Virginia Woolf. By Sarah Fleming
On Exile and Elsewhere
A lively conversation with author André Aciman on the self-help book he never wrote and why a sense of irony is a Jewish trait. Benjamin Balint and André Aciman
Eliminate the Muslim
The forces of paranoia, progress, and productivity drive the construction and surveillance of Muslim identity in narratives of postcolonial future-making. By Ahmed Ragab
What the Gospels Share with Fanfiction
The desire of the later Gospel writers to take up the pen parallels the contemporary phenomenon of fanfiction. By Jade Sylvan
Devotion in the Study of Religion
Featured Devotion in the Study of Religion Illustration by Gracia Lam Vocation Summer/Autumn 2014...
Enchantment and Disenchantment in the Evangelical Tradition
George Eliot is a telling example of someone who embraced evangelicalism’s message of love and forgiveness but was put off by the dogma. By David N. Hempton
