{"title":"Saving Religion: Immigrant Guidebooks, Religious Identities, and Saving Habits of Irish Domestic Servants in America","authors":"Melanie Strating","doi":"10.1353/rel.2020.0044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rel.2020.0044","url":null,"abstract":"Kane, Paula M. Separatism and Subculture: Boston Catholicism, 1900–1920. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1994. O’Neill, Peter D. Famine Irish and the American Racial State. New York: Routledge, 2017. Smith, Goldwin. Canada and the Canadian Question. Toronto: Hunter, Rose, 1891. Smith, John Talbot. “How the McGuinness Saved His Pride.” In His Honor, the Mayor: And Other Tales, 218–58. New York: Vatican Library, 1891. —–. The Truth about the French Canadians. New York: Offices of the New York Catholic World, 1889.","PeriodicalId":43443,"journal":{"name":"RELIGION & LITERATURE","volume":"64 1","pages":"153 - 161"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89954010","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":"Wayward Bound: Religion in Irish American Poetry","authors":"Daniel Tobin","doi":"10.1353/rel.2020.0041","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rel.2020.0041","url":null,"abstract":"Carroll, James. “After Pennsylvania, What Pope Francis Should Say in Ireland.” New Yorker, August 22, 2018, https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/after-pennsylvania-what-pope-francis-should-say-in-ireland. Cullingford, Elizabeth Butler. “‘Our Nuns Are Not a Nation’: Politicizing the Convent in Irish Literature and Film.” In Irish Postmodernisms and Popular Culture, edited by Wanda Balzano, Anne Mulhall, and Moynagh Sullivan, 55-73. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2007. DelRosso, Jeana. “The Convent as Colonist: Catholicism in the Works of Contemporary Women Writers of the Americas.” MELUS 26, no. 3 (2001): 183-201. Final Report on the Apostolic Visitation of Institutes of Women Religious in the United States of America. Holy See Press Office, December 16, 2014. Goodstein, Laurie. “Vatican Ends Battle With U.S. Catholic Nuns’ Group.” New York Times, April 16, 2015. Gordon, Mary. “Francis and the Nuns: Is the New Vatican All Talk?” Harper’s Magazine, August 2014, https://harpers.org/archive/2014/08/francis-and-the-nuns/. Kenneally, Christine. “We Saw Nuns Kill Children: The Ghosts of St. Joseph’s Catholic Orphanage.” BuzzFeed News, August 27, 2018, https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ christinekenneally/orphanage-death-catholic-abuse-nuns-st-josephs. McDermott, Alice. The Ninth Hour. London: Bloomsbury, 2017. Shanley, John Patrick. Doubt, A Parable. New York: Dramatists Play Service, 2005. Smith, James M. Ireland’s Magdalen Laundries and the Nation’s Architecture of Containment. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2008. St. Joseph’s Orphanage Task Force’s Report. December 14, 2020. https://ago.vermont.gov/wpcontent/uploads/2021/02/Task-Force-Report-Part-1.pdf. Sullivan, Courtney J. Saints for All Occasions. London: Fleet, 2017.","PeriodicalId":43443,"journal":{"name":"RELIGION & LITERATURE","volume":"13 1","pages":"193 - 201"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"81884339","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":"Sublime Conclusions: Last Man Narratives from Apocalypse to Death of God by Robert K. Weninger (review)","authors":"David Zachariah Flanagin","doi":"10.1353/rel.2020.0042","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rel.2020.0042","url":null,"abstract":"sociated with the Son’s mildness, graciousness, and mercy. The intriguing final chapter of National Reckonings reads Satan’s return to hell from Eden as a perverse “Second Coming,” and his dismissive mockery of the curse upon the Serpent “taps into the national memory of Charles’s trial,” of the king who denied the High Court’s authority (140-43). Conversely, the Son models embracing reckoning, and faithful humans and angels like Eve and Abdiel intuit and follow this model. Pointing toward joyful expectation of judgment due to its association with deliverance and reward, Hackenbracht’s readings favor human agency and potential over dependence on divine grace (143; cf. 14, 28, 49). While this works well for his investigation of Hobbes, I think in Milton especially the two must be said to work hand in hand. In sum, this book is helpful in its main argument: early modern English and Welsh writers’ views of national identity were profoundly influenced by eschatology, and the expectation of an imminent divine reckoning provided a rhetorical tool to advance communal reform. There is much to consider in this short book. With its range of primary texts investigated, its blend of historical narrative and provocative textual analysis, its novel combination of the concerns of nationhood and eschatology, and its implicit claim that the lessons learned in Milton’s England are especially relevant today, this book is bound to be of interest to many a scholar of early modern England.","PeriodicalId":43443,"journal":{"name":"RELIGION & LITERATURE","volume":"21 1","pages":"215 - 217"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83885737","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":"National Reckonings: The Last Judgment and Literature in Milton’s England by Ryan Hackenbracht (review)","authors":"Emily E. Stelzer","doi":"10.1353/rel.2020.0029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rel.2020.0029","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43443,"journal":{"name":"RELIGION & LITERATURE","volume":"9 1","pages":"213 - 215"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73885468","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":"Light and Mystical Writing: T. S. Eliot’s Poetic Practice in Four Quartets","authors":"Nicoletta Asciuto","doi":"10.1353/rel.2020.0037","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rel.2020.0037","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Over the decades, scholarship has often sketched T. S. Eliot as a “failed mystic,” and variously interpreted Four Quartets as philosophical, mystical, or religious poetry. But, for Eliot, the most successful religious poetry is the one that could be “unconsciously Christian, rather than deliberately and defiantly, Christian” (“Religion and Literature”). In order to achieve this aim in his poetic practice, Eliot adopts different strategies to incorporate mystical language and imagery into Four Quartets. Borrowing translation terminology, this article shows how, in three instances dealing with mystical light and ascent, Eliot domesticates a Dantesque reference, removes an allusion to St. John of the Cross, and includes, with foreignizing results, a German word associated with Meister Eckhart’s mysticism. From these writers, Eliot also learns approaches to accommodate the language of mystical experiences of light and ascent into modern, unconsciously religious poetry.","PeriodicalId":43443,"journal":{"name":"RELIGION & LITERATURE","volume":"56 1","pages":"47 - 69"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85756616","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":"Adam and Eve in Scripture, Theology, and Literature: Sin, Compassion, and Forgiveness by Peter B. Ely (review)","authors":"J. Kerr","doi":"10.1353/rel.2020.0026","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rel.2020.0026","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43443,"journal":{"name":"RELIGION & LITERATURE","volume":"15 1","pages":"208 - 210"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82453268","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":"Confronting Evil: The Psychology of Secularization in Modern French Literature by Scott M. Powers (review)","authors":"Larson Powell","doi":"10.1353/rel.2020.0034","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rel.2020.0034","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43443,"journal":{"name":"RELIGION & LITERATURE","volume":"16 1","pages":"218 - 220"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"89535930","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":"Mettānoia in Thomas Pynchon’s Buddhist Trilogy","authors":"Michael J. Sanders","doi":"10.1353/rel.2020.0040","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rel.2020.0040","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article argues for the centrality of Buddhism in Thomas Pynchon’s fiction. The Crying of Lot 49, Vineland, and Bleeding Edge make a Buddhist Trilogy. As the only three Pynchon novels to have female protagonists, each novel features a motherly protagonist that has a Buddhist reference in her name. Beneath the patina of Judeo-Christian, psychological, scientific, and political references apparent on the surface in this Trilogy’s denouements, Pynchon has sculpted a program for changing one’s mind firmly grounded in Buddhist belief and practice. This program is a specifically Buddhist quest for mettānoia. Mettānoia is the author’s tripartite term for Pynchon’s corrective to paranoia: a 1) change of mind that, while 2) softly inclusive of forms of Christian metanoia, is centered much more on 3) Buddhist mettā, the summary moment after meditation when the Buddhist subject is changed to a heightened sense of compassionate care. However, mettānoia also limits one’s acts of compassion such that they retain a Buddhist detachment from worldly outcomes. This article ends by looking at how mettānoid reading might counter paranoid reading, adding to the current discourses of postcritique and the postsecular.","PeriodicalId":43443,"journal":{"name":"RELIGION & LITERATURE","volume":"49 1","pages":"113 - 135"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72679505","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":"How to Respond to New Atheists: Learning How to View the Material World, Knowledge, and Mystery from Seventeenth-Century Poet Lucy Hutchinson","authors":"C. Iluzada","doi":"10.1353/rel.2020.0005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rel.2020.0005","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Like the \"new atheists,\" the ancient Roman poet Lucretius zealously wanted to free his readers from dangerous religious superstition so that they could peacefully accept that nothing exists besides matter and void. The seventeenth-century Puritan Lucy Hutchinson was, surprisingly, the first to translate Lucretius's poem De rerum natura into English, and, years later, she published a long poetic paraphrase of Genesis, Order and Disorder. This article reads Order and Disorder as a response, providing an alternate Christian vision to De rerum natura, and draws conclusions about ways that Christians might, like Hutchinson, respond to fervent materialism. First, Hutchinson provides eloquent teaching, leading readers to meditate on the created world to find reasons for worship of its creator and to see the spiritual beyond the material. Next, she emphasizes that humans have a distinct position of both great value and utter humility within creation, a view that contrasts starkly with Lucretius's materialist perspective that elevates human reason but negates human worth. Finally, she shows that Christians should use God's means of accommodation, including creation and scripture but especially the incarnation, to remember God's nearness and trust his providence.","PeriodicalId":43443,"journal":{"name":"RELIGION & LITERATURE","volume":"1 1","pages":"115 - 137"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72745180","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":"Dostoevsky and the Riddle of the Self by Yuri Corrigan (review)","authors":"Octavian Gabor","doi":"10.1353/rel.2020.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/rel.2020.0015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43443,"journal":{"name":"RELIGION & LITERATURE","volume":"124 1","pages":"154 - 156"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-11-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"88015308","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}