{"title":"The Buddha's Shadow and God's Flesh: Image and Anti-Image in Huiyuan and Julian of Norwich","authors":"Yun Ni","doi":"10.1353/rel.2022.0001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rel.2022.0001","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:This essay compares the ideology of visualization of the late fourth-century Chinese Buddhist monk Huiyuan 慧遠 (334–417) and the late fourteenth-century English Christian mystic Julian of Norwich (1342–1430). Specifically, it compares how the two authors deal with the limits and possibilities of visualization in understanding the relationship between the transcendent and the immanent. Although Huiyuan and Julian lived a thousand years apart, their articulations of the imagistic representation of the transcendent reveal synchronic connections between Buddhist and Christian ideas about the absolute presence and necessary absence of the divine. Both religious thinkers use details related to the skin and to textiles when they address the representation of the \"ineffable.\" The ways they treat the boundaries between skin and textiles expose fundamental differences between the Trinity of the Christian God and the Buddha's three bodies (the Trikāya), but the two religious writers reflect on a similar oscillation between the active generation and passive reception of mental images.","PeriodicalId":43443,"journal":{"name":"RELIGION & LITERATURE","volume":"1 1","pages":"27 - 47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88796047","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Christianity and the Triumph of Humor: From Dante to David Javerbaum by Bernard Schweizer (review)","authors":"Jahdiel Perez","doi":"10.1353/rel.2022.0018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rel.2022.0018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43443,"journal":{"name":"RELIGION & LITERATURE","volume":"260 1","pages":"229 - 232"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74518167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Charles William Stubbs and Shakespeare: The Incarnation and the English Cult of Literature at the Turn of the Twentieth Century","authors":"M. Cerezo","doi":"10.1353/rel.2022.0000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rel.2022.0000","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT:On April 23, 1899, Charles William Stubbs, Dean of Ely, delivered the Shakespeare Sermon in Holy Trinity Church, Stratford-upon-Avon. The Shakespeare sermon was later expanded as one of Stubbs's Hulsean lectures (1904-1905) in Cambridge, published in the volume The Christ of English Poetry in 1906. This article shows how Stubbs's profound analysis of Shakespeare as the main English Renaissance literary representation of the personality of Christ is a unique religious and literary reflection on Frederick Denison Maurice's social theology of the incarnation at the turn of the twentieth century. This distinctiveness is reinforced, as this article explains, by the dialogue that Stubbs establishes with the ideas of Auguste Comte, Walter Bagehot, Giuseppe Mazzini, and Edward Dowden, which constitutes a significant and unexplored chapter of the history of Shakespeare's reception and a compelling illustration of William R. McKelvy's concept of the \"English cult of literature,\" that is, of how religion functioned as a powerful instrument of literary interpretation as literature served the purposes of religious creed at the turn of the century.","PeriodicalId":43443,"journal":{"name":"RELIGION & LITERATURE","volume":"24 1","pages":"1 - 115 - 117 - 139 - 141 - 162 - 163 - 184 - 185 - 207 - 209 - 211 - 211 - 213 - 213 - 215 - 216 -"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75281757","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Accommodated Jew: English Antisemitism from Bede to Milton by Kathy Lavezzo (review)","authors":"Chris Vinsonhaler","doi":"10.1353/rel.2020.0032","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rel.2020.0032","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43443,"journal":{"name":"RELIGION & LITERATURE","volume":"51 1","pages":"205 - 207"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88790442","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Classicism and Christianity in Late Antique Latin Poetry by Philip Hardie (review)","authors":"C. Springer","doi":"10.1353/rel.2020.0030","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rel.2020.0030","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43443,"journal":{"name":"RELIGION & LITERATURE","volume":"19 1","pages":"203 - 205"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75272619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Yankee in Catholic Ireland: Dorothy Gresham’s Dungar Sketches in the Catholic World, 1896–98","authors":"Marguérite Corporaal","doi":"10.1353/rel.2020.0023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rel.2020.0023","url":null,"abstract":"Richter, Amy G. At Home in Nineteenth-Century America: A Documentary History. New York: New York University Press, 2015. Sadlier, Mary Anne. Bessy Conway; or, The Irish Girl in America. New York: D. and J. Sadlier and Co., 1861. Sullivan, Eileen P. The Shamrock and the Cross: Irish-American Novelists Shape American Catholicism. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2016. Walter, Bronwen. Outsiders Inside: Whiteness, Place and Irishwomen. London: Routledge, 2000. Wegge, Simone A., Tyler Anbinder, and Cormac Ó Gráda. “Immigrants and Savers: A Rich New Database on the Irish in 1850s New York.” Historical Methods 50, no. 3 (2017): 144-55.","PeriodicalId":43443,"journal":{"name":"RELIGION & LITERATURE","volume":"18 1","pages":"161 - 168"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75500058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Bible on the Shakespearean Stage: Cultures of Interpretation in Reformation England ed. by Thomas Fulton and Kristen Poole (review)","authors":"L. Stelling","doi":"10.1353/rel.2020.0019","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rel.2020.0019","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43443,"journal":{"name":"RELIGION & LITERATURE","volume":"274 1","pages":"210 - 212"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80002883","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Shifting Identities: The Influence of Sex and Religion on Irish American Women Autobiographers","authors":"Sally Barr Ebest","doi":"10.1353/rel.2020.0021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rel.2020.0021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43443,"journal":{"name":"RELIGION & LITERATURE","volume":"4 1","pages":"169 - 178"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72572777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Religion and Cultural Identity in Irish American Literature","authors":"C. Cusack","doi":"10.1353/rel.2020.0024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rel.2020.0024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43443,"journal":{"name":"RELIGION & LITERATURE","volume":"88 2 1","pages":"138 - 145"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89380735","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Andrew Marvell’s “A Dialogue, between the Resolved Soul, and Created Pleasure”: Asceticism and the Plain Style","authors":"P. Mcgrath","doi":"10.1353/rel.2020.0038","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rel.2020.0038","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article examines the use of the plain style in Andrew Marvell’s poem “A Dialogue, Between the Resolved Soul, and Created Pleasure.” It argues that, uniquely among other early modern body and soul dialogue poems, Marvell painstakingly differentiates the verbosity of Pleasure and the verbal restraint of Soul. Through this differentiation, the poem establishes a connection between the plain and the ascetic; the forbidding and austere Soul speaks plainly. The essay situates this conjoining of plainness and asceticism among other early modern authors who also associate, or simply equate, what is plain and what is ascetic. Based upon the poem’s capacity to epitomize a broader tendency within literary and religious culture, the article interrogates the narrative of asceticism’s demise or diminution in early modernity. The stylistic internalization of austerity becomes a means for the preservation—indeed, the flourishing—of post-Reformation asceticism.","PeriodicalId":43443,"journal":{"name":"RELIGION & LITERATURE","volume":"15 1","pages":"71 - 94"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82410938","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}