Literature and Theology

Papers
(The TQCC of Literature and Theology is 0. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-12-01 to 2025-12-01.)
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Precarious joy: Meena Alexander, postsecularism, and bhakti poetry2
Thinking with antisemites: contemporary Jewish engagements with Heidegger2
Belief and Doubt in the Landscape and Holocaust Poems of David Fram (1903–88)2
Reading the Materiality of Caste2
Materiality, Postcoloniality, and the Phenomenology of Mental Health1
Sestinas, farce, and rules of religious life: the performative theology of Giorgio Agamben1
Derrida’s Marrano Passover: Exile, Survival, Betrayal, and the Metaphysics of Non-Identity By Agata Bielik-Robson1
Religion, Reading, and Metacognition in the Victorian Literature Classroom1
The Closed Book: How the Rabbis Taught the Jews (Not) to Read the Bible . By Rebecca Scharbach Wollenberg1
THE SOLACE OF PILGRIMS: MOVEMENT, REST, AND SLEEP IN THE PILGRIM’S PROGRESS1
Correction to an affiliation in two papers1
Metaphor, resurrection, and the body in John Donne’s poetry and prose0
Sultana’s Sisters: Genre, Gender, and Genealogy in South Asian Muslim Women’s Fiction, Edited by Haris Qadeer and P.K. Yasser Arafath0
Senghor’s Eucharist: Negritude and African Political Theology, By David Tonghou Ngong0
“But Vashti refused to come”: a feminist view of Vashti in Jewish American women midrashic poetry0
Queering Faith in Fantasy Literature: Fantastic Incarnations and the Deconstruction of Theology, By Taylor Driggers0
On the metanoia of eschatological injustice: powerful is the giving-up of power: a theological and ethnographic case study of The Southwark Mysteries and Crossbones Graveyard’s in-casts0
Religion, secularism, and postsecularism in global south literatures: introduction to the special forum0
Shakespeare, Theology, and the Unstaged God. By Anthony D. BakerChristian Humanism in Shakespeare: A Study in Religion and Literature. By Lee Oser0
Breaking Down Boundaries and ‘Making it New’: Oriental Elements in Western Modernism. By Zhaoming Qian0
Literature and Religion: A Dialogue between China and the West, By David Jasper and Ou Guang-an0
The Dreamer and the Dream: Afrofuturism and Black Religious Thought, By Roger A. Sneed0
Religion, secularism, and postsecularism in Chinese internet literature0
The Dharma of Justice in the Sanskrit Epics, By Ruth Vanita0
Unparalleled Poetry: A Cognitive Approach to the Free-Rhythm Verse of the Hebrew Bible, By Emmylou Grosser0
‘Her body is Divided From Her Head’: Beheading and Biblical Intertextuality in Elizabeth Cary’s The Tragedy of Mariam0
Secularism and Hermeneutics. By Yael Almog0
“Dispossession”: the movement of hermeneutics and prayer in Paul Ricoeur and Rowan Williams0
The Cyclops Myth and the Making of Selfhood, By Paul Robertson0
Marilynne Robinson’s Worldly Gospel. A Philosophical Account of Her Christian Vision, By Ryan S. Kemp and Jordan Rodgers0
The modern spiritual affect of perplexed affirmation, or, the David Hume of R. S. Thomas0
Superman as the Measure of All Things: Black Gods and White Saviours in Watchmen and Doomsday Clock0
Abundantly More: The Theological Promise of the Arts in a Reductionist World. By Jeremy Begbie0
Religions in Shakespeare’s Writings, Edited by David V. Urban0
The Living Spring: A Comparison of Jacob’s Well and the Well Hexagram0
‘The Name of God Has Priority’: ‘God’ and The Apophatic Element in Vladimir Nabokov’s Pale Fire0
Salman Rushdie and postsecularism: The Satanic Verses and the postcolonial Bildungsroman0
Making Strange: Teaching 19th-Century Gothic and Fantastic Literature0
C. S. Lewis and the Shandean Cause0
Dante’s Christian Ethics: Purgatory and Its Moral Contexts. By George Corbett0
Questions We Share0
‘A Light in Sound, A Sound-Like Power in Light’: Coleridge’s Phenomenal Invisible0
The Politics of Ritual, By Molly Farneth0
Religious Experience, Storytelling, and Ethical Action in Muhammad Iqbal’s Javid Nama and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s Nathan0
Science and Religion in Western Literature: Critical and Theological Studies, Edited by Michael Fuller0
Blakean anti-wisdom in Thomas Merton’s proverbs0
The Everlasting People: G.K. Chesterton and the First Nations, By Matthew J. Milliner0
Religion and Contemporary Art: A Curious Accord. Edited by Ronald R. Bernier and Rachel Hostetter Smith0
POSSESSION AND CONSUMPTION: CLARICE LISPECTOR AND THE ETHICS OF MYSTICISM0
Un-American Dreams: Apocalyptic Science Fiction, Disimagined Community, and Bad Hope in the American Century By J. Jesse Ramírez0
Old Forgotten Flowers: George Macdonald as Mystic0
Planting Letters and Weaving Lines. Calligraphy, The Song of Songs, and The Saint John’s Bible. By Joanna Homrighausen0
The Subversive Simone Weil: A Life in Five Ideas. By Robert Zaretsky0
Contemporary Pakistani Speculative Fiction and the Global Imaginary: Democratizing Human Futures, By Shazia Sadaf and Aroosa Kanwal0
Correction to: Between Form and Faith: Graham Greene and the Catholic Novel. By Martyn Sampson0
Blake’s theology of the imagination0
Literature and liberation: reading James Baldwin with James Cone0
LEONTES’ ORIGINAL SIN: GENESIS 3 AND THE WINTER’S TALE0
Fantastic Creatures of the Mountains and Seas: A Chinese Classic, By Jiankun Sun, Siyu Chen0
Interpretations observed, in Moby-Dick’s “The Doubloon”: understanding proximities of meaning and power0
The Works of Lucy Hutchinson Volume II Theological Writings and Translations0
Wild Mind, Wild Earth:Our Place In the Sixth Extinction. By David Hinton0
Of bodyminds and blank pages: the transmutability of life writing and an ethic of reading with crip queer care0
The Autism of Gxd: An Atheological Love Story. By Ruth Dunster0
Professing Darkness: Cormac McCarthy’s Catholic Critique of American Enlightenment, By D. Marcel DeCoste0
Teaching 19th-Century Literature Beyond the Secularisation Thesis: Introduction to the Special Forum0
Corrections0
The Yijing Principles in the Japanese Creation Myth: A Study of the Jindai-No-Maki (‘Chapters on the Age of the Gods’) in the Nihon Shoki (‘The Chronicles Of Japan’)0
Philosophy and the Physics of the Damned. By Cormac McCarthy, Patrick O’Connor0
The hard, bloodless surface of a mirror: Patricia Highsmith’s Kierkegaardian anatomy of anxiety0
Unsayable word: gurbāni, Punjabi poetry, and the postsecular impulse0
The Ghosts of Lilith: haunting narratives of witness and the postcolonial poetry of Shivanee Ramlochan0
Transmutations and transgressions0
Tolkien’s Faith: A Spiritual Biography, By Holly Ordway0
Baptism and episcopalian piety in the English Civil War: Joseph Beaumont’s lyric poems0
Sister Death. Political Theologies for Living and Dying, By Beatrice Marovich0
Dao Jing Ying Yi Shi (The History of the English Translation of the Daoist Scriptures), By Senlin Yu0
How did Josie get better? The AI Imitatio Christi of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Klara and the Sun0
Uneven Futures: Strategies for Community Survival from Speculative Fiction, By Ida Yoshinaga, Sean Guynes, and Gerry Canavan0
Heresy and Borders in the Twentieth Century, By Karina Jakubowicz and Robert Dickins0
Connectivity, Grounding, and Amplification: The Base-Line in Changing and its Functions0
Secret Selves: A History of Our Inner Space. By Stephen Prickett0
Intersections of Forgiveness And ‘Queer Use’ In T.S. Eliot’s ‘Marina’0
Uttering the Unutterable: Aristotle, Religion, and Literature, By Louis Groarke0
Correction to: Feminist Storytelling and the Problem of White Feminism0
The Politics of Grace in Early Modern Literature, By Deni Kasa0
Inverting the ‘Gracelorn’ Father: Augustinian Notions of Evil and Goodness in Cormac McCarthy’S Outer Dark and The Road0
Iris Murdoch and the Others: A Writer in Dialogue with Theology, By Paul S. Fiddes0
The Permeable Self: Five Medieval Relationships, By Barbara Newman0
The Yijing as Inspiration in Raymond Queneau’s Morale Élémentaire III (1975): An Intermingling of the Particular and the Universal0
Between Form and Faith: Graham Greene and the Catholic Novel. By Martyn Sampson0
Phenomenology of the Icon: Mediating God through the Image By Stephanie Rumpza0
Biblical Themes in Science Fiction Edited by Nicole L. Tilford and Kelly J. Murphy0
Lands of Likeness: For a Poetics of Contemplation. By Kevin Hart0
Celestial Nonsense: George Macdonald’s Apophatic Play0
The Zen of Ecopoetics: Cosmological Imaginations in Modernist American Poetry, By Enaiê Mairê Azambuja0
The ethico-religiousness of Atwood’s “God’s Gardeners” vis-à-vis Kierkegaard’s thought0
postcolonial Racialisation of Gender and Religious Experience within the Settler Colonial Context: Ahed Tamimi’s Experience of a Racialised Practice0
Politics of Haya: Embodied Materiality of Piety as Everyday Resistance among British Muslim Women in Ayisha Malik's Fiction0
Early Modern Economic Theology and Oikonomia in The Merchant of Venice0
The I Ching and World Literature: Introduction to the Special Forum0
‘Blundering Brutuses’: Michael Field, Nonconformism, and The Politics of Social Purity0
Lyric Theology: Art and the Doctrine of Creation. By Thomas Gardner0
Programmatology: deconstruction, canonicity, antisemitism0
Theology, the body, and form in early modern English literature0
Pulter’s end: mortality, mortalism, and the poetics of doubt and certitude0
The alchemy of apocalypse: transmutation and the quest for survival0
The postsecular imaginaries of Orhan Pamuk’s novels0
Hunger, Poetry and the Oxford Movement: The Tractarian Social Vision. By Lesa Scholl0
After eco-theocide: the shift from ecological conservation to eco-theological conversation in Amitav Ghosh’s The Living Mountain0
An Interview with Mayra Rivera: Postcolonial Women’s Writing and Material Religion0
Fears and joys of writing in the fiction of Roberto Bolaño0
A “rhapsody of the sense of wonder”: G. K. Chesterton’s defense of mysticism in his reading of the Book of Job0
The transmutation of continental philosophy of religion: questioning the “continent” in continental0
Holy cannibalism in Deep River: eucharistic reflections on “The Case of Kiguchi”0
Cain Furens: Imitations Of Virgil and Ovid in Canto Six of Lucy Hutchinson’s Order And Disorder0
Marilynne Robinson and Theology. Edited by Håkan Möller and Ola Sigurdson0
Wordsworth and the World: Teaching Postsecular Romanticism in the Humanities0
Introduction to Special Issue on Postcolonial Women's Writing and Material Religion: New Directions0
The Mind of the Holocaust Perpetrator in Fiction and Nonfiction. By Erin McGlothlin0
Unfinished forgiveness: dynamics of Igbo cosmology and Christian theology in Chigozie Obioma’s An Orchestra of Minorities0
A Sigh After Sleep: Poiesis and the Sacramentality of Nature in Annette von Droste-Hüshoff’s Late Lyric0
What If God is a ‘Pagan Amalgam’: Marilynne Robinson and Historical Bible Scholarship0
Religion and Literature: History and Method, Brill Research Perspectives in Religion and the Arts, vol. 3. By Eric Ziolkowski. Leiden: Brill, 2019. Devotion: Three Inquiries in Religion, Lit0
Modernism, Nominalism, and the Hidden God in Samuel Beckett, Wallace Stevens, and David Jones0
South Asian Ways of Seeing. Contemporary Visual Cultures, Edited by Samarth Singhal and Amrita Ajay0
LITTLE DORRIT AND THE STRUCTURE OF BELIEF0
Rethreading the Fabric of Mystery: Thinking Myth, Counter-Myth, and Christian Theology With Hortense Spillers0
Decay, Death, and the Return of Light: The I Ching Yin-Yang Cycle in Philip K. Dick’s The Man in the High Castle0
Shakespeare and the Elizabethan Reformation: Literary Negotiations of Religious Difference, By Dennis Taylor0
Following the signs: reading the Qur’anic epigraphs as postsecular in Sofiane Hadjadj’s So Perfect a Garden and Yamen Manai’s The Ardent Swarm0
Parfit: A Philosopher and His Mission to Save Morality, By David Edmonds0
Jain Rāmāyaṇa Narratives: Moral Vision and Literary Innovation, By Gregory M. Clines0
Sacred Modes of Being in a Postsecular World, Edited by Andrew W. Hass0
Music as incarnated beauty in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Silmarillion: a neoplatonic reading0
Wollstonecraft and Religion, By Brenda Ayers0
A Season on Earth with animals: Gerald Murnane’s mundane afterlife0
The Philosophy of Change and the Metaphor of Body: From the I Ching (The Classic of Changes) to Wenxin Diaolong (Carving the Dragon With A Literary Heart)0
Dropping the Albatross: Teaching Religion and Literature in a Postsecular Age0
Correction to: The Inconspicuous God: Heidegger, French Phenomenology, & the Theological Turn, by Jason W. Alvis0
Legal, Mythic, and Divine Violence: Post-secular Entanglements in Walter Benjamin’s ‘Toward the Critique of Violence’0
A negative way: eschatology in the elegies of John Heath-Stubbs0
Museums as Ritual Sites: Civilizing Rituals Reconsidered By Lieke Wijnia and James S. Bielo0
The Machine Anxieties of Steampunk: Contemporary Philosophy, Victorian Aesthetics, and the Future. By Kathe Hicks Albrecht0
Veiled Superheroes: Islam, Feminism, and Popular Culture., By Sophia Rose Arjana0
Lived Experiences and Social Transformations: Poetics, Politics and Power Relations in Practical Theology. By C.L. Wren Radford0
Music as preternatural in Geoffrey Hill’s poetry0
Petrified tears: Joy Harjo’s “Exile of Memory” and the story of Lot’s Wife0
Finding the Numinous: An Ecocritical Look at Dune and The Lord of the Rings, By Willow Wilson DiPasquale0
New evidence for “The Biblical Kierkegaard”? Several key annotations in Kierkegaard’s Greek New Testaments and their implications0
“Give me the ocular proof”: certitude and experiential knowledge in Othello and the English Reformed tradition0
Transmutational spaces in Isaiah: between picture postcard and void0
Spinoza’s Religion: A New Reading of the Ethics, By Clare Carlisle0
Muslim Comics and Warscape Witnessing, By Esra Mirze Santesso0
‘In the End, There Was No End’: Colonial Modernism and Moral Perfectionism in Patrick White’s The Tree of Man0
Democratic Criticism: Poetics of Excitement and the Muslim Sacred. By Masood Ashraf Raja0
Bridging the Divide: The Crucifixion in Endo’s The Samurai0
Qohelet: Searching for a Life Worth Living, By Menachem Fisch and Debra Band0
The Charge of God: Laudato Si’ read through Chesterton, Wordsworth, and Hopkins0
Paradises lost: innocence and excremental whiteness in John Milton and James Baldwin0
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