{"product_id":"postmodern-belief-american-literature-and-religion-since-1960-9780691145754","title":"Postmodern Belief  American Literature and","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHow can intense religious beliefs coexist with pluralism in America? Examining the role of the religious imagination in contemporary religious practice and in some of the best-known works of American literature, this title shows how belief for its own sake has become an answer to pluralism in a secular age.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShortlisted for the 2011 American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Textual Study of Religion \"Postmodern Belief offers keen insights for the serious reader regarding current writers and their conception of the sacred.\"--Cliff Prewencki, Salem Press Magill Book Reviews \"Hungerford's text is for scholars of contemporary literature and contemporary religion; for readers concerned about the relevance of literary texts and their continued ability to inform our lives; and for readers pursuing the meaning of religious belief in a postmodern world. Her work is richly researched and interdisciplinary, moving deftly between religious history and literary theory. Her reframing of belief is both creative and capacious, reaffirming the ability of literature to convey meaning in an allegedly postliterary age.\"--Kristina K. Groover, Modern Philology\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments ix  INTRODUCTION: Belief in Meaninglessness xiii  CHAPTER ONE: Believing in Literature  Eisenhower, Salinger, St. Jacques Derrida 1  CHAPTER TWO: Supernatural Formalism in the Sixties  Ginsberg, Chant, Glossolalia 28  CHAPTER THREE: The Latin Mass of Language  Vatican II, Catholic Media, Don DeLillo 52  CHAPTER FOUR: The Bible and Illiterature  Bible Criticism, McCarthy and Morrison, Illiterate Readers 76  CHAPTER FIVE: The Literary Practice of Belief  Lived Religion, Marilynne Robinson, Left Behind 107  CONCLUSION: The End of The Road, Devil on the Rise 132  Notes 141  Bibliography 175  Index 187","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51455992267095,"sku":"9780691145754","price":36.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780691145754.jpg?v=1755033357","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/postmodern-belief-american-literature-and-religion-since-1960-9780691145754","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}