{"title":"“Love Applied To Suffering”: Nuns in Contemporary Irish American Fiction","authors":"Sinéad Moynihan","doi":"10.1353/rel.2020.0033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rel.2020.0033","url":null,"abstract":"Curran, Mary Doyle. The Parish and the Hill. New York: The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1986. Fanning, Charles. The Irish Voice in America, 2nd edition. Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 2000. Farrell, James. Studs Lonigan. New York: Penguin Publishing Group, 2001. Halley, Anne. Afterword. In Curran, The Parish and the Hill. Jacobsen, Beatrice. “Alice McDermott’s Narrators.” In Too Smart To Be Sentimental: Contemporary Irish American Women Writers, edited by Sally Barr Ebest and Kathleen McInerny, 116-35. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2008. Kenny, Kevin. The American Irish. New York: Routledge, 2000. McDermott, Alice. At Weddings and Wakes. New York: Picador, 1992. McNickle, Chris. “When New York Was Irish, and After.” In New York Irish edited by Ronald H. Bayor and Timothy J. Meagher, 337-56. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Meagher, Timothy J. “The Fireman on the Stairs.” In Making the Irish American: History and Heritage of the Irish in the United States, edited by J. J. Lee and Marion R. Casey, 609-48. New York: New York University Press, 2006. Miller, Kerby. Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1988. Shelley, Thomas J. “Twentieth-Century American Catholicism and Irish Americans.” In Making the Irish American: History and Heritage of the Irish in the United States, edited by J. J. Lee and Marion R. Casey, 574-608. New York: New York University Press, 2006.","PeriodicalId":43443,"journal":{"name":"RELIGION & LITERATURE","volume":"2 1","pages":"185 - 193"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81012944","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":"Mobility and Identity: The Role of Religion in the Works of Mary Doyle Curran and Alice McDermott","authors":"Linda Dowling Almeida","doi":"10.1353/rel.2020.0025","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rel.2020.0025","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43443,"journal":{"name":"RELIGION & LITERATURE","volume":"69 1","pages":"178 - 185"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89367141","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 Reception of Milton’s Satan in C. S. Lewis’s Perelandra","authors":"T. Anderson","doi":"10.1353/rel.2020.0039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rel.2020.0039","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:John Milton’s reputation and reception reached a critical juncture in the 20th century, as a range of English scholars and poets debated the nature and importance of Paradise Lost. Central to this debate was Milton’s representation of Satan, which, due to the vivacity and agency with which Milton invests the chief antagonist, led Romantic critics to reject the epic on the grounds that Milton’s corrupt morality—his Pride, chiefly—is the source of Satan’s sympathetic depiction. Modern critics, such as F. R. Leavis, T. S. Eliot, A. J. Waldock, and E. M. Tillyard, extended this critique to Milton’s language, arguing that Milton failed in his stated purpose (to justify the ways of God to man in judging Adam and Eve at the Fall) because Adam and Eve are too attractive to condemn, the devil is more appealing than God, and God himself is plunged into strange contradictions and untenable sophistries. C. S. Lewis was one of many voices who sought to defend Milton, both in critical essay, and, especially, through his own depiction of the Fall in Perelandra, a science fiction novel. Lewis’s portrayal of Satan recuperates a reading of Paradise Lost that emphasizes the essential being and deceptive nature of the devil. For Lewis, such truths were self-evident to Milton’s Renaissance readers. In Perelandra, Lewis dwells on the representation of epic absurdity, diabolical personality, and the significance of Eve’s temptation, amplifying for his modern audience the central stakes of Paradise Lost while simultaneously debunking modern misconceptions of the purpose and effect of Milton’s epic.","PeriodicalId":43443,"journal":{"name":"RELIGION & LITERATURE","volume":"2003 1","pages":"112 - 95"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82935677","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":"Spirits of Place in American Literary Culture by John Gatta (review)","authors":"L. Larson","doi":"10.1353/rel.2020.0028","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rel.2020.0028","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43443,"journal":{"name":"RELIGION & LITERATURE","volume":"25 1","pages":"225 - 227"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85114762","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 Latino Christ in Art, Literature, and Liberation Theology by Michael R. Candelaria (review)","authors":"Alyssa Maldonado-Estrada","doi":"10.1353/rel.2020.0022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rel.2020.0022","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43443,"journal":{"name":"RELIGION & LITERATURE","volume":"142 1","pages":"227 - 229"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73629847","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 Construction of a Goddess: Isis in Apuleius’s Metamorphoses","authors":"S. Haskins","doi":"10.1353/rel.2020.0036","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rel.2020.0036","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The Isis book (book 11) of the 2nd century CE Latin novel, Metamorphoses by Apuleius, is one of the richest sources for Isis and her cult from the Hellenistic-Roman period. As such, it is often used as evidence by feminist religious scholars who are trying to restore the divine feminine, a universal, all-powerful Great Mother, who is caring and nurturing, to modern religious sensibilities. However, in doing so, they have also often used this book without context or textual criticism, leading to a distorted picture of the divine feminine in modern scholarship. Such a project is not aided by the fact that there is no feminist reading of the Isis book in Apuleian scholarship. This study intends to fill the gap by making a gendered reading for Isis as a divine, but specifically as a literary construct. This is accomplished by examining the divine elements of Isis’s construction, namely her powers and how her powers interact with others, and making a gendered interpretation of the results of this examination. From this study, it can be seen that, although at first glance Apuleius’s Isis looks like a typical supreme but nurturing Great Mother, she is in fact an incredibly demanding goddess, who is also carefully constrained by maleness. Her all-encompassing powers are only exercised under the purview of a male god and are only acceptable in the service of a male worshipper. Therefore, this reading must be taken into account whenever the Metamorphoses is used for studies of the divine feminine.","PeriodicalId":43443,"journal":{"name":"RELIGION & LITERATURE","volume":"15 1","pages":"27 - 46"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89867104","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":"A Real American “Spakes English”: Ethnicity, Religion, and Respectability in John Talbot Smith’s “How the McGuinness Saved His Pride” (1891)","authors":"Lindsay Janssen","doi":"10.1353/rel.2020.0031","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rel.2020.0031","url":null,"abstract":"The French-Canadian of any rank in life feels that God can confer no greater honor than to make one of his boys a priest, one of his girls a nun. This is a curious view.... The life of the ordinary priest or nun in Canada is not financially a happy one.... It seems to make little difference to the Canadian, as long as his son is the priest. Therefore Protestant missions have found it difficult to bribe this people. Honor seems to mean more to them than soup,1 and they are evidently determined to continue in their priest-ridden condition. We apologize for them to our separated brethren.2","PeriodicalId":43443,"journal":{"name":"RELIGION & LITERATURE","volume":"12 1","pages":"146 - 153"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"74521832","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":"Spirit Matters: Occult Beliefs, Alternative Religions, and the Crisis of Faith in Victorian Britain by J. Jeffrey Franklin (review)","authors":"A. Roukema","doi":"10.1353/rel.2020.0027","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rel.2020.0027","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43443,"journal":{"name":"RELIGION & LITERATURE","volume":"9 1","pages":"220 - 222"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81669139","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":"Third-Generation Holocaust Narratives: Memory in Memoir and Fiction ed. by Victoria Aarons (review)","authors":"Elizabeth S. Scheiber","doi":"10.1353/rel.2020.0020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rel.2020.0020","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43443,"journal":{"name":"RELIGION & LITERATURE","volume":"9 1","pages":"230 - 232"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72817885","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}