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Table of Contents

Introduction

  1. The Secular and the Literary
  2. Colin Jager
  3. pp. 411-418
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Articles

  1. Vitalist Nation: Whitman, Kerouac, Rand, DeLillo
  2. John A. McClure
  3. pp. 419-435
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  1. Repairing the Ladder to Heaven: Harriet Beecher Stowe’s The Minister’s Wooing as a Secular Novel
  2. Kristin Wilkes
  3. pp. 436-453
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  1. Post-secular Nature and the New Nature Writing
  2. Alexander J. B. Hampton
  3. pp. 454-471
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  1. A Secular for Literary Studies
  2. Kevin Seidel
  3. pp. 472-492
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Dossier: Reports from the Field

  1. Why the Postsecular Matters: Literary Studies and the Rise of the Novel
  2. Lori Branch, Mark Knight
  3. pp. 493-510
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  1. Inside Looking In: Complicity and Critique
  2. Kathryn Ludwig
  3. pp. 511-515
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  1. The Spiritual Authority of Literature in a Secular Age
  2. Dawn Coleman
  3. pp. 519-530
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  1. Some Thoughts on the State of Secularity in the Lowlands
  2. Megan Milota
  3. pp. 531-547
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  1. David Foster Wallace’s Evangelicals: The Other Postsecularism
  2. Christopher Douglas
  3. pp. 548-558
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Afterword

  1. Being in Uncertainties
  2. Gavin Hopps
  3. pp. 559-567
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Poetry

  1. Allamanda
  2. Jeanne Foster
  3. pp. 568-569
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  1. Selections from “Franciscan Notes”
  2. Alan Williamson
  3. pp. 569-571
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Book Reviews

  1. Veiled Intent: Dissenting Women’s Aesthetic Approach to Biblical Interpretation by Natasha Duquette (review)
  2. Phyllis Mack
  3. pp. 572-576
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  1. Under the Gaze of the Bible by Jean-Louis Chrétien (review)
  2. Peter S. Rogers S.J.
  3. pp. 575-579
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  1. Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essential Spiritual Writings ed. by Jon M. Sweeney (review)
  2. Joseph G. Kronick
  3. pp. 579-582
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  1. Henry David Thoreau: A Life by Laura Dassow Walls (review)
  2. Lucas Nossaman
  3. pp. 583-586
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  1. Emily Dickinson’s Rich Conversation: Poetry, Philosophy, Science by Richard E. Brantley (review)
  2. Sarah O’Dell
  3. pp. 586-589
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  1. Good Form: The Ethical Experience of the Victorian Novel by Jesse Rosenthal (review)
  2. Dwight Lindley
  3. pp. 589-593
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  1. Pentecostal Modernism: Lovecraft, Los Angeles, and World-Systems Culture by Stephen Shapiro and Philip Barnard (review)
  2. Amos Yong
  3. pp. 593-596
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  1. The Gospel according to David Foster Wallace: Boredom and Addiction in and Age of Distraction by Adam S. Miller (review)
  2. Austin Sill
  3. pp. 596-598
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  1. Entertaining Judgment: The Afterlife in Popular Imagination by Greg Garrett (review)
  2. Jaclyn S. Parrish
  3. pp. 598-601
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