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Index for Religion and the Arts


Volume 1 Number 1 (1997)

Editor's Introduction: Originality and Religious Criticism at the Present Time
Dennis Taylor
   
Special Section on Andy Warhol:
Introduction
Reva Wolf
   
For Heaven's Sake: Warhol's Art as Religious Allegory
Zan Schuweiler Daab
   
Warhol and Leonardo in Milan
Jane Dillenberger
   
Converting Symbols
Rosemary Haughton
   
A Parable of Talent
Leslie Brisman
   
A Method for Comparative Studies in Religious Visual Arts: Approaching Architecture
John Renard
   
Donatello's David, or Flesh Made Spirit
Terry Walsh
   
The Need for a Religious Literary Criticism
Dennis Taylor
   

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Volume 1 Number 2 (1997)

Donatello's David, or Flesh Made Spirit
Terrance Walsh, S.J.
  6
Art and Religion: Psychoanalytic Reflections
W.W. Meissner, S.J., M.D.
  32
Joyce and the Common Life
Eugene Goodheart
  55
Woody Allen's Blindness and Insight: The Palimpsests of Crimes and Misdemeanors
Crystal Downing
  71
Artist as Christ/Artist as Criminal: Oskar Kokoschka's Self-Portrait for Der Sturm, Myth, and the Construction of Identity in Vienna 1900.
Claude Cernuschi
  91
Review Essay:
The Virgin and the Dynamo in American Literary History
K.P. Van Anglen
  126
Features:
Books Briefly Noted   143
New Books   147
Notes on Contributors   155
Announcements, Conferences, Exhibitions   157

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Volume 1 Number 3 (1997)

Public Art as Sacred Space: Asian American Community Murals in Los Angeles
J. Shawn Landres
   
Ingmar Bergman's Post-Christian God: Silent, Absent, and Female
Richard A. Blake, S.J.
   
The Potential of Scripture's Images: From Genesis to Abstract Expressionism
Harry Rand
   
The Cave of the Body – The Heart of Matter
Judith Wilt
   
Art/Spirit: Pictures at Two Exhibitions
Ihab Hassan
   
Flannery O'Connor: What's New?
Peter Hawkins
   

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Volume 1 Number 4 (1997)

Iconic Space and the Materiality of the Sign
Charles Lock
  6
Tradition, Creativity and the Liturgical Artist
John Steczynski
  23
Tracing Phantoms: Religious Secrets and the (Un)Veiling of Jewish Identity in Balzac's "Sarrasine"
Esther Rashkin
  40
Comparative Religious Architecture: Islamic and Hindu Ritual Space
John Renard
  62
Review Essay:
Critical Methodology and Writing About Religion and Literature
John Mahoney
  89
Features:
Book Reviews   125
New Books   133
Notes on Contributors   141
Announcements, Conferences, Exhibitions   143

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Volume 2 Number 1 (1998)

A Hagiography of Bugs and Leaves: On the Dishonesty of Pictured Religion
James Elkins
  6
The Making of the Ideal Temple: The Pavement of the Duomo of San Martino in Lucca
Kim Williams
  31
"There Never Was a War That Was Not Inward": Empathic Agency and Christian Trope in the World War II Poetry of Edith Sitwell, Kathleen Raine and Marianne Moore
Jennifer L. Leader
  54
Review Essay:
Religion, the Arts, and Islamic Architecture   82
Interview:
A Conversation on Religion and the Arts with Walter Jackson Bate
John Mahoney
  96
Features:
Book Reviews   100
New Books   112
Notes on Contributors   121
Announcements, Conferences, Exhibitions   123

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Volume 2 Number 2 (1998)

The Cult of St. Philomena in Nineteenth Century France
Nancy Davenport
  123
'I am Your Woman': The Erotic Mysticism of William Everson
Albert Gelpi
  149
An Exegesis of the Kyrie from Beethoven's Mass in C, Opus 86
Jeremiah McGrann
  182
Thoreau and the Design of Dissent
Kris Fresonke
  221
Review Essay:
Values Redivivus?: Attempts to Renegotiate a Humanist Ethical Criticism
Robert Eaglestone
  242
Features:
Book Reviews   252
Books Briefly Noted   263
New Books   267
Notes on Contributors   273
Announcements, Conferences, Exhibitions   275

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Volume 2 Number 3 (1998)

Special Section on Raymond Carver:
"Cathedral" by Raymond Carver A Variorum Edition
ed. Steve Mirarchi
  279
Conditions of Possibility: Religious Revision in Raymond Carver's "Cathedral"
Steve Mirarchi
  299
Word of God in Some Raymond Carver Stories
Edward Duffy
  311
A Note on the Function of Language in "Cathedral"
Paul Doherty
  337
Low Roofs Over Infinity: Architectural Miniatures in a Typology of Ritual Object
John Renard
  343
Prophetic Riddles: The Enigmas of Emily Dickinson
John Hildebidle
  376
Features:
Book Reviews   382
Books Briefly Noted   391
New Books   394
Notes on Contributors   409
Announcements, Conferences, Exhibitions   411
Recent Critical Articles   417

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Volume 2 Number 4 (1998)

"Full Consciousness": Passion and/or conversion in Adam Bede
Robert P. Lewis
  423
"Incarnate Excellence": Jonathan Edwards and an American Theological Aesthetic
Donald Gelpi, S.J.
  443
Saint Francesca Romana and Guardian Angels in Baroque Art
Josephine von Henneberg
  467
East of Eden as Western Midrash: Steinbeck's Re-Marking of Cain
Terence R. Wright
  488
Review Essay:
McMullen's Choice: A REcent Appraisal of Flannery O'Conner
Sally Fitzgerald
  519
Features:
Book Reviews   530
New Books   541
Notes on Contributors   560
Announcements, Conferences, Exhibitions   562
Index to Volume 2 (1998)   570

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Volume 3 Number 1 (1999)

Building the Cathedral: Imagination, Christianity, and Progress in Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop
Nicholas Birns
  1
Further Considerations of the Holy Stigmata of St. Francis: Where Was Brother Leo?
Robert Kiely
  20
Tarkovsky's Apocalypse and the Image of Time
Peter Yoonsuk Paik
  41
"Poised, But on the Quiver": The Paradox of Free Will and Grace in Hopkins's "Spring" and "(Carrion Comfort)"
Michael Raiger
  64
Review Essays:
Images of Animosity; Visions of Vengeance: Christian Depictions of Jews, Jewish Dreams of Subversion
Pamela Berger
  96
The Sacred and Profane Critical Machine
Paul Giles
  106
Features:
Book Reviews   117
Books Briefly Noted   131
New Books   134
Notes on Contributors   141
Announcements, Conferences, Exhibitions   143
Index to Volume 2 (1998)   151

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Volume 3 Number 2 (1999)

Donatello and the Theology of Linear Perspective
John W. Dixon, Jr.
  159
Reckoning and Regeneration: Billy Bob Thornton's Scourge of God and Holy Fool
Sean Benson
  180
Commentary:
Specialists with Spirit: New Age Religion, English Studies, and the "Somatic Turn"
Kurt Spellmeyer
  195
Exhibition:
"Pictures from an Exhibition: Saints and Sinners, Caravaggio and the Baroque Image. A Selection of Paintings from the Exhibition at the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College"
Franco Mormando, S.J.
  225
Review Essays:
What the Day gives is Faithfulness: Four Contemporary Christian Poets
Leonard N. Neufeldt
  231
"The Lightning from the Sky and the Sceptre from Tyrants": Religion and American Enlightenment
K.P. Van Anglen
  248
Features:
Book Reviews   260
New Books   276
Notes on Contributors   287
Announcements, Conferences, Exhibitions   289
Recent Critical Articles   298

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Volume 3 Numbers 3-4 (1999)

Jesus Unbound: The Correction of Jesus' Intentions in Mark 5-8
R. Clifton Spargo
  303
Guadalupe: Image of Submission or Solidarity?
George L. Scheper
  335
The Unholy Grail in Walker Percy's Lancelot
C.E. Smith
  385
Tableaux Vivants and Textual Resurrection: Luther, Marguerite de Navarre, and the Evangelical Narrative
Catherine Randall
  408
Review Essays:
Current Approaches to Selected Medieval and Renaissance Literary Reflections of Religious Culture
Douglas J. McMillan
  429
The Perils of Embodiment: Geoffrey Hartman on Culture, Poetry, and the Holocaust
Dennis Taylor
  439
The Mark Rothko Chapel in Houston; The Sturcture of Meaning or the Meaning of Structure?
Claude Cernuschi
  454
Features:
Book Reviews   476
Books Briefly Noted   491
New Books   495
Notes on Contributors   517
Announcements, Conferences, Exhibitions   520
Recent Critical Articles   525
Index to Volume 3   533

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Volume 4 Number 1 (2000)

SPECIAL ISSUE: THE HOLOCAUST AND THE ARTS

Preface
John J. Michalczyk
  1
The Roots of Anti-Semitism in Medieval Visual Imagery: An Overview
Pamela Berger
  6
Art in the Service of Propaganda: The Poster War in France During World War II
Margaret Collins Weitz
  51
Samek & Samek
Samuel Bak
  79
Diaries and Oral History: Some Methodological Considerations
Nechama Tec
  89
Silenced Voices: Music in the Third Reich
Mark Ludwig
  102
From Reality to Fiction: Anna Rosmus as "Nasty Girl"
Anna Rosmus
  118
Review Essays:
The Nazis and the Holocaust: Is Culture to Blame?
Steve Cohen
  154
Recent Studies of the Holocaust
Steve Cohen
  168
Features:
Notes on Contributors   177
Announcements, Conferences, Exhibitions   178

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Volume 4 Number 2 (2000)

Between Doubt and Rapture — Art and Church Today: The Spiritual in the Art of the Twentieth Century
Friedhelm Mennekes, S.J.
  165
Death of Spirit and Failure of Art in Charles Dickens' The Old Curiosity Shop
Kenneth M. Sroka
  184
Dancing in Sacred Space: Some Reflections on Liturgy and Performance
Maggie Kast
  217
Shadow and Substance: Another Look at an Elizabethan Lyric
Carol Banks
  231
Review Essay:
Anamnesis: Andre Dubus' Catholic Imagination
Robert P. Lewis
  247
Features:
Book Reviews   260
Books Briefly Noted   281
New Books   293
Notes on Contributors   305
Announcements, Conferences, Exhibitions   307
Abstracts   311

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Volume 4 Number 3 (2000)

In Dreams: The Sculptural Iconography of the West Front of the Bath Abbey Reassessed
Julian M. Luxford
  313
The Resurrection According to Christine De Pizan
Josette A. Wiseman
  337
Nam June Paik's TV Budha as Buddhist Art
Walter Smith
  359
'This Is What Art Could Do': An Exercise in Exegesis — R. S. Thomas's Souilillac: Le Sacrifice D'Abraham
William V. Davis
  374
Review Essay:
Re-reading the Rabbis, Rewriting Scripture: Three Theoretical Approaches to Midrash and Literature
Terence R. Wright
  388
Features:
Book Reviews   401
Books Briefly Noted   417
New Books   432
Notes on Contributors   440
Announcements, Conferences, Exhibitions   442
Recent Critical Articles   443
Abstracts   458

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Volume 4 Number 4 (2000)

Serpents, Angels and Virgins: The Virgin Mary as "Second Eve" in the Art of Edward Burne-Jones
Kathy M. Bullough
  463
Oliver Twist's Nancy: The Angel in Chains
Robert N. Garnett
  491
Reviving Eugene Delacroix's Religious Oeuvre: Romantic Painting and its Reintegration with Theology
Joyce C. Polistena
  517
Review Essays:
Buddhism, East and West
James Najarian
  547
Jerusalem Deconstructed: The Architecture of an Islamic Holy City
John Renard
  556
Voices Crying in the Wilderness: Prominent Anglican and Roman Catholic Intellecturals at a a Time of Secularization
Douglas L. McMillan
  564
Features:
Book Reviews   575
Books Briefly Noted   594
New Books   606
Notes on Contributors   632
Announcements, Conferences, Exhibitions   634
Abstracts   637
Recent Critical Articles   639
Index to Volume 4 (2000)   645

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Volume 5 Numbers 1-2 (2001)

SPECIAL ISSUE: VICTORIAN RELIGIOUS DISCOURSE

Introduction
Jude V. Nixon
  3
Victorian Religious Discourse as Palimpsest: Hopkins, Pusey, and Müller
Jerome Bump
  14
'Kill[ing] our souls with literalism': Reading Essays and Reviews
Jude V. Nixon
  40
'Decomposing Texts': Browning's Poetics of Higher Critical Parody
Suzanne Bailey
  77
'Our king back, Oh, upon English souls': Swinburne, Hopkins, and the Politics of Religion
Renée V. Overholser
  95
Hearing Adventure: Giuseppe Caponsacchi, Browning's 'Hollow Rock'
Joseph A. Dupras
  132
Female Saint, Female Prodigal: Christina Rossetti's 'Goblin Market'
Kirsten E. Escobar
  156
The G(l)ossing of Religion: A Victorian Father and Son.
Crystal Downing
  183
The Divided Victorian Church: Butterfield and the Anglo-Catholic Compromise   201
Review Essay:
Almanack, Testament, Stage: Representations of the Sacred In Nineteenth-Century Sacred
Kimberly Van Esveld Adams
  215
Features:
Book Reviews   231
Books Briefly Noted   234
New Books   291
Notes on Contributors   305
Abstracts   307

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Volume 5 Number 3 (2001)

SPECIAL ISSUE: SHAKESPEARE AND CATHOLICISM

Preface
David Beauregard
  245
Shakespeare on Monastic Life: Nuns and Friars in Measure for Measure
David Beauregard
  248
Virtue, Natural Law, and Supernatural Solicitation: a Thomistic Reading of Shakespeare's Macbeth
Stacey Hibbs and Thomas Hibbs
  273
A Bloody Question: The Politics of Venus and Adonis
Richard Wilson
  297
Review Essays:
Shakespeare and the Bible
David Beauregard
  317
Hamlet in Purgatory
Dennis Taylor
  331
Features:
Book Reviews   338
Books Briefly Noted   360
New Books   371
Notes on Contributors   391
Announcements, Conferences, Exhibitions   393
Abstracts   397

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Volume 5 Number 4 (2001)

Picturing Holy Places: On the Uses of Architectural Themes in Ornament and Icon
John Renard
  399
Fred Zinnemann's The Nun's Story and the Pilgrim Soul of Women
Maureen Sabine
  429
King Richard's "I"
Joseph Candido
  464
Review Essays:
Crusade and Jihad: The Wars Known as Holly
Pamela Berger
  484
Islam and Modernity
Valerie J. Hoffman
  495
To Be a Pilgrim
John Hildebidle
  504
Features:
Book Reviews   509
Books Briefly Noted   520
New Books   537
Notes on Contributors   544
Announcements, Conferences, Exhibitions   546
Recent Critical Articles   548
Abstracts   556
Index to Religion and the Arts, Volume 5 (2001)   558

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Volume 6 Numbers 1-2 (2002)

SPECIAL ISSUE: ANDRE DUBUS

Preface
Brennan O'Donnell, Paul J. Contino, Jane Kelley Rodeheffer
  5
"I Can See Them There, At Fenway Park—Andre Dubus And His Good Friend God . . . "
Patrick Samway, S.J.
  9
Living On The Invisible Palm Of God: Andre Dubus And The Ethics Of Forceful Resistance
Elizabeth Grubgeld
  29
"No More Male And Female": Bodiliness And Eucharist In Andre Dubus's Stories
Robert P. Lewis
  50
Andre Dubus's Eucharistic Imagination
Paul J. Contino
  70
Ritual And Reenactment In Andre Dubus's Short Fiction
Mark Osteen
  97
The Legacy Of The Last Gentleman: Reading Dubus Reading Walker Percy
Jane Kelley Rodeheffer
  119
"Mysteries Of Love And Mortality" In Andre Dubus's "Adultery" And "On Charon's Wharf"
Brennan O'Donnell
  147
Erotic And Divine Love: Implications Of The Incarnation In Dubus's "If They Knew Yvonne," Voices From The Moon, And "Adultery"
Thomas A. Wendorf, S.M.
  169
"Heroism" And "Ordinary Life" In The Stories Of Andre Dubus
Paul Doherty
  192
Identity, Community And Choice In Andre Dubus's "Miranda Over The Valley"
David M. Hammond
  210
Horses Running Back Into The Fire And Other Self-Immolations In "A Father's Story"
Edward Gleason
  225
Review Essays:
Prophetesses
Kris Fresonke
  242
Between Assimilation And Segregation: Jewish Culture In Modern Europe
Marion Spies
  259
Features:
New Books   270
Notes on Contributors   279
Announcements, Conferences, Exhibitions   283
Recent Critical Articles   287
Abstracts   294

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Volume 6 Number 3 (2002)

Tennyson's Lady of Shalott and Pre-Raphaelite Renderings: Statement and Counter-Statement
Thomas L. Jeffers
  231
"These Beauteous Forms": "Tintern Abbey" and the Post-Enlightenment Religious Crisis
Henry Weinfield
  257
Between Carnival and Dream: St. Anthony, Gustave Flaubert, and the Arts in Fin de Siécle Europe
Nancy Davenport
  291
Review Essays:
Around the World in Religion and the Arts
John Renard
  359
Religion's Machine
John P. Manoussakis
  375
Through the Darkness
John Hildebidle
  383
Features:
Book Reviews   387
Books Briefly Noted   417
New Books   419
Notes on Contributors   429
Announcements, Conferences, Exhibitions   431
Abstracts   437

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Volume 6 Number 4 (2002)

Identity and Imagination: David Malouf and Hossein Valamanesh in Process
Ihab Hassan
  441
Gurutz Aldare — The Cross Altar by Eduardo Chillida in the Jesuit Church in Cologne
Friedhelm Mennekes, S.J.
  459
Elizabeth Bishop and Christian Literary Tradition: Two Poems from North & South
Laurel Corelle
  473
Review Essays:
Archaeology, Iconography, and the Recreation of the Past in Iron Age Holy Lands
Pamela Berger
  499
Rome, Utrecht, and Delft: A Case for an Ecumenical Art
Timothy Wilson-Smith
  507
Features:
Book Reviews   519
Books Briefly Noted   537
New Books   541
Notes on Contributors   549
Announcements, Conferences, Exhibitions   551
Abstracts   555
Recent Critical Articles   557
Index to Volume 6 (2002)   565

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Volume 7 Numbers 1-2 (2003)

Introduction: Shakespeare and the Reformation
Dennis Taylor
  1
The Comedy of Errors and The Calumny of Appelles: An Exercise in Source Study
Richard Dutton
  11
"Obsequious Laments": Mourning and Communal Memory in Shakespeare's Richard III
Katharine Goodland
  31
Catholic and Protestant, Jesuit and Jew: Historical Religion in The Merchant of Venice
John Klause
  65
The Accent and Gait of Christians: Hamlet's Puritan Style
R. Chris Hassel, Jr.
  103
Helena and the Reformation Problem of Merit in All's Well That Ends Well
Maurice Hunt
  129
Review Essays:
The Reformation, the Bible in English (1557-1582), Some Popular Pamphlets, and Some Popular Plays of Jonson and Shakespeare
Douglas J. McMillan
  159
Gulielmus Clerkue Stratfordiensis at the English College in Rome: Inconclusive Evidence for a Catholic Shakespeare
Thomas Merriam
  167
Sorting out Catholic and Protestant Elements in Shakespeare
Dennis Taylor
  175
Klal Yisroel Literature or Various National Jewish Literatures?: Two Contemporary Views
Marion Spies
  191
Features:
Book Reviews   197
New Books   205
Notes on Contributors   209
Announcements, Conferences, Exhibitions   212
Abstracts   218
Recent Critical Articles   222

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Volume 7 Number 3 (2003)

Concealment, Revelation, and Gender: The Veil of Moses in the Bible and in Christian Art
Brian Britt
  227
Christ Aux Outrages by Henry de Groux: Fin de Siècle Religion, Art Criticism, and the Sociology of the Crowd
Nancy Davenport
  275
More on the Sculptural Iconography of the West Front of Bath Abbey: Christ of the Charter and Antichrist
Julian M. Luxford
  299
Review Essays:
Bob Lax, A Transparent Poet
Jim Forest
  323
A Master of the Middle Way: Richard Kearney on God, Evil, and Aliens
Mark Dooley
  329
Features:
Book Reviews   341
Books Briefly Noted   349
New Books   355
Notes on Contributors   365
Abstracts   367

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Volume 7 Number 4 (2003)

Graham Greene's Lacanian Encore: The End of the Affair
Frances L. Restuccia
  369
The Name of the Madeleine: Signs and Symbols of the Mass in Proust's In Search of Lost Time
Steven F. Walker
  389
Mother and Child: Realism, Materinity, and Catholocism in Kate Chopin's The Awakening
Jarlath Killen
  413
The Imitation of Self: Milton and the Christ of Paradise Regained
John X. Evans
  439
Review Essay:
Across Asia in the Footsteps of the Buddha
John Renard
  465
Features:
Book Reviews   487
Books Briefly Noted   503
New Books   505
Notes on Contributors   515
Announcements, Conferences, Exhibitions   517
Abstracts   522
Recent Critical Articles   524
Index to Religion and the Arts, Volume 7 (2003)   529

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Volume 8 Number 1 (2004)

Introduction: Art, Religion, and Politics in South Asia
Sheila S. Blair and Jonathan M. Bloom
  1
The Place of Warangal's Kirti-Toranas in the History of Indian Islamic Architecture
Philip B. Wagoner
  6
Uneasy Bedfellows: Islamic Art and the Politics of Indian Nationalism
Catherine B. Asher
  37
The Bodhgaya Temple: Whose Structure Is It?
Frederick M. Asher
  58
Review Essays:
Off the Beaten Path in the Arts of Christianity and Islam
John Renard
  74
All Poems Great and Small: Two Anthologies
John Hildebiddle
  92
"The Murthly Hours": Art, Aristocracy, and the Illuminated Book
Matthew Reeve
  100
Features:
In Memoriam: "Walter Jackson Bate: The Humanist as Teacher/Scholar"   119
Book Reviews   125
New Books   134
Notes on Contributors   138
Announcements, Conferences, Exhibitions   141
Abstracts   149
Recent Critical Articles   152

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Volume 8 Number 2 (2004)

Painting a Continent — or Nothing: A Personal Essay on a Theme in Contemporary Australian Art
Ihab Hassan
  159
La Poesia è Scala a Dio: On Reading Charles Wright
Kevin Hart
  174
Sites of Reverie: The Divinatory Hermeneutics of Gaston Bachelard
Eileen Rizo-Patron
  200
Reading a Christian Reading: Mark Jarman, T.S. Eliot, and the Aesthetic Strategies of Religious Faith
Jay Twomey
  223
Review Essays:
Recent Directions in Holocaust Writing
Marion Spies
  244
Shakespeare's Religious Background Revisited
Peter Milward, S.J.
  260
Features:
Book Reviews   272
Books Briefly Mentioned   284
New Books   286
Notes on Contributors   290
Announcements, Conferences, Exhibitions   292
Abstracts   297

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Volume 8 Number 3 (2004)

The Saint Who Lost Her Head: Or Who's Afraid of Catherine of Siena?
Robert Kiely
  303
Wordsworth and the Stripping of the Altars
James Deboo
  323
Varieties of Religious Experience—The Architectural Dimension
Jeffery W. Howe
  344
Review of Exhibition:
The Buddhism Project: An Art Review
Andrea M. Couture
  358
Theatrical Review:
"The Retreat from Moscow": Religion and Drama
John Mahoney
  381
Features:
Book Reviews   385
Books Briefly Mentioned   396
New Books   398
Notes on Contributors   408
Announcements, Conferences, Exhibitions   410
Abstracts   413

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Volume 8 Number 4 (2004)

Symbolist Spirituality: Religious Themes in the Art of Fernand Khnopff
Jeffery W. Howe
  415
Raymond Carver and Alcoholics Anonymous: The Narrative under the "Surface of Things"
Chad Wriglesworth
  458
Imagining the Other: Toward an Aesthetic Theology
Richard D. McCall
  479
Review of Exhibition:
100 Artists See God
Lex Thompson
  486
Features:
Book Reviews   501
Books Briefly Mentioned   530
New Books   536
Notes on Contributors   545
Announcements, Conferences, Exhibitions   547
Abstracts   552
Recent Critical Articles   554
Index to Volume 8 (2004)   559

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Volume 9 Numbers 1-2 (2005)

Visual Space and the Practice of Viewing: The Dance of Death at Meslay-le-Grenet
Elina Gertsman
  1
Synaesthesia and Eating in The Winter's Tale
Andrew Moran
  38
Picturing "The Man of Sorrows": The Passion-filled Afterlives of a Biblical Icon
Martin O'Kane
  62
'Sic Luceat Lux Vestra': A Study of Arthur Hughes's April Love
Catherine Persyn
  101
Jesus of Nazareth in Ghana's Deep Forest: The Africanizaiton of Christianity in Madam Afua Kuma's Poetry
Darren J. N. Middleton
  116
Review Essay:
What is the Secret of Shakespeare?
Peter Milward, S.J.
  135
Features:
Book Reviews   141
Books Briefly Mentioned   151
New Books   153
Notes on Contributors   161
Announcements, Conferences, Exhibitions   163
Abstracts   166
Recent Critical Articles   169

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Volume 9 Numbers 3-4 (2005)

The Economy of Salvation: Narrative and Liminality in Rembrandt's Death of the Virgin
Ronald R. Bernier
  3
No "Sombre Satan": C. S. Lewis, Milton, and Re-Presentations of the Diabolical
Chad P. Stutz
  46
In the Nick of Time: Thoreau's "Present" Experiment as a Colloquy of East and West
Alan D. Hodder
  89
Netting the Butterfly Man: The Significance of Vladimir Nabokov in W. G. Sebald's The Emigrants
Adrian Curtin and Maxim D. Shrayer
  126
When He Would Compose From Fragments a World Perfect at Last: Theology and Poetics in Czeslaw Milosz's "From the Rising of the Sun"
David Stankiewicz
  164
Review of Exhibition:
Here and There: Deterritorializing Miami and Havana
Alexander Lamazares
  207
Interview:
From Gospel to Gibson: An Interview with the Writers Behind Mel Gibson's the Passion of the Christ
David Shepherd
  217
Drama Review:
"Brooklyn Boy" and "Doubt: A Parable": Religion and Contemporary Drama
John L. Mahoney
  234
Features:
Book Reviews   241
Books Briefly Mentioned   279
New Books   286
Notes on Contributors   315
Announcements, Conferences, Exhibitions   320
Abstracts   325
Recent Critical Articles   330
Index to Volume 9 (2005)   337

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Volume 10 Number 1 (2006)

Odilon Redon, Armand Clavaud, and Benedict Spinoza: Nature as God
Nancy Davenport
  1
A "Study of Church in America": Catholicism as Exotic Other in The Damnation of Theron Ware
Aaron Urbanczyk
  39
Enrique Martínez Celaya's Thing and Deception: The Artistic Practice of Belief
Daniel A. Siedell
  59
Review Essays:
The Hope of Imagination: Richard Kearney's Conversational Journeys
Mark D. Gedney
  89
"The Plot Thickens": Three New Books on Shakespeare and Religion
Peter Milward, S.J.
  101
Witnessing the Holocaust: Survivors, the Church, and Literature
Marion Spies
  109
Features:
Book Reviews   122
New Books   140
Notes on Contributors   147
Announcements, Conferences, Exhibitions   149
Abstracts   155
Recent Critical Articles   157

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Volume 10 Number 2 (2006)

Art, Prophecy, and Drama in the Choir of Salisbury Cathedral
Matthew M. Reeve
  161
Ekphrasis, Lorenzo Lotto's Annunciation, and the Hermeneutics of Suspicion
Jacqueline Olson Padgett
  191
"Fidelity to the Word": Lonerganian Conversion through Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale and Dante's Purgatorio
Gregory Maillet
  219
Shadows and Illuminations: Spiritual Journeys to the Dark Side in "Young Goodman Brown" and Eyes Wide Shut
John Neary
  244
Review Essays:
Religious Community, Place, and the Spatial Arts: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives from around the World
John Renard
  271
Epimetheus Unbound: Victorian and Modernist, Backward and Forward
Marion Spies
  291
Features:
Book Reviews   297
New Books   306
Notes on Contributors   314
Announcements, Conferences, Exhibitions   316
Abstracts   320
Recent Critical Articles   323

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Volume 10 Number 3 (2006)

The "Logic of Metaphor" at Work: Hart Crane's Marian Metaphor in The Bridge
John P. Wargacki
  329
Bachelard's Subversive Hermeneutics: A Reading of "Lightning" in Shelley's Prometheus Unbound
Eileen Rizo-Patron
  355
Loving Mac, Beth, and John: Grace in the Plays and Films of Horton Foote
Gerald C. Wood
  374
The Search for Reconciliation in E. L. Doctorow's City of God
Lawrence Wilde
  391
Museum Review:
The Sculpture of The Creation Garden
Mary McNichols
  406
Review Essay:
The Case for Church Papists
Peter Milward, S.J.
  424
Features:
Book Reviews   431
New Books   441
Notes on Contributors   447
Announcements, Conferences, Exhibitions   450
Abstracts   455
Recent Critical Articles   458

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Volume 10 Number 4 (2006)

Women and the Dura-Europos Synagogue Paintings
Faith Steinberg
  461
Doctrinal Development and the Demons of History: The Historiography of John Henry Newman
James Matthew Wilson
  497
Blessed Are Those Who Are Seen? Incarnation as Cinema's Destiny
Ulrike Vollmer
  524
Review Essay:
Around the World in Religion and the Arts: Defining the Study of Islamic Art
John Renard
  539
Features:
Book Reviews   556
New Books   564
Notes on Contributors   570
Announcements, Conferences, Exhibitions   572
Abstracts   575
Recent Critical Articles   577
Index to Volume 10 (2006)   579

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Volume 11 Number 1 (2007)

Images of Hope: Representations of the Death of the Virgin, East and West
Elizabeth Walsh, R.S.C.J.
  1
"Great Command O'Ersways the Order": Purgatory, Revenge, and Maimed Rites in Hamlet
David Beauregard
  45
Shakespeare's Grand Deception: The Merchant of Venice--Anti-Semitism as "Uncanny Causality" and the Catholic-Protestant Problem
Nicole M. Coonradt
  74
Review Essay:
John Betjeman: Centenary Publications
Kevin J. Gardner
  98
Features:
Book Review   118
Brief Mentions   120
New Books   122
Notes on Contributors   127
Announcements, Conferences, Exhibitions   129
Recent Critical Articles   138
In Future Issues   141

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Volume 11 Number 2 (2007)

The Accusing Look: The Abjection of Hagar in Art
J. Cheryl Exum
  143
Paul Serusier: Art and Theosophy
Nancy Davenport
  172
The Deaths of God in Hegel and Nietzsche and the Crisis of Values in Secular Modernity and Post-secular Postmodernity
William Franke
  214
Conference Report:
Religion and the Academy: Report on the Western Conference on British Studies Roundtable
Robert H. Ellison
  242
Review Essays:
War and Peace in Shakespeare
Peter Milward, S.J.
Surviving and Starting Life Anew: Consequences of an Exodus
Marion Spies
  250

257
Features:
Book Reviews
Brief Mentions
  267
274
New Books   278
Notes on Contributors   284
Announcements, Conferences, Exhibitions
Recent Critical Articles
In Future Issues
  286
294
297

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Volume 11 Numbers 3-4 (2007)

St. Benedict Sees the Light: Asam's Solar Eclipses as Metaphor
Roberta J.M. Olson and Jay M. Pasachoff
  299
Jean Delville's La Mission de L'Art: Hegelian Echoes in Fin-de-Siecle Idealism
Brendan Cole
  330
La Beata Vicuna: The Nun's Version, Corrective of Garcia Marquez's
John Cussen
  373
Light Falling on England: History and Landscape in the Poetry of C.H. Sisson
Kevin J. Gardner
  406
Materialist Criticism and Cordelia's Quasi-Resurrection in King Lear
Sean Benson
  436
De Otio Religioso: Petrarch and the Laicization of Western Monasticism
Demetrio S. Yocum
  454
Review Essays:
Religion in Early Modern England: Two Recent Commentaries
Nicole M. Coonradt
  480
Who Is the Thinker?
Peter Milward, S.J.
  494
The Absolutely True Metanarrative or a Partially True Micronarrative?: The Place of Roman Catholicism in Southern Literature
Ralph C. Wood
  503
Features:
Book Reviews   509
Books Brief Mentions   515
New Books   517
Notes on Contributors   520
Announcements, Conferences, Exhibitions   524
Recent Critical Articles   529
Index to Volume 11 (2007)   533
In Future Issues   538

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Volume 12 Numbers 1-3 (2008)

SPECIAL ISSUE: THE INTER-RELIGIOUS IMAGINATION

In Memoriam: Ronald Anderson, S.J.   1
Introduction: A Pilgrimage to the Heart
Richard Kearney
  3
Open-Source Hinduism
Siddhartha
  34
Yoga and the Wounded Heart
Jyoti Sahi
  42
On Spirituality and Organized Religion: Conversations with Yogi Raghu Ananthanarayanan   77
Empathy and Inter-Religious Imagination
Catherine Cornille
  102
Inclusive Imagination: A Comment on Religion and Culture in India
Chandan Gowda
  118
My Adventure with Inter-Religious Dialogue
Joseph A. Samarakone, O.M.I.
  123
A Monk's Journey in Search of God
Simon Sleeman, O.S.B.
  138
Embodied Consciousness in Tantric Yoga and the Phenomenology of Merleau-Ponty
James Morley
  144
Confessions of a Hindu-Catholic Artist
Caroline Mackenzie
  164
The Heart Beyond Hearts
Swami Tyagananda
  186
Childhood, Intuition, Vocation: Remembering Sara Grant
Fanny Howe
  186
Arunachala
Shirley du Boulay
  197
The Lord of the Heart: Abhinavagupta's Aesthetics and Kashmir Saivism
Bettina Baeumer
  214
Encountering the (Divine) Mother in Hindu and Christian Hymns
Francis X. Clooney, S.J.
  230
Narratives of a Dialogue Pilgrim
Albert Nambiaparambil, C.M.I.
  244
Pranayama: Breathing from the Heart
Richard Kearney
  266
Spiritual Improvisations: Ramakrishna, Aurobindo, and the Freedom of Tradition
Martin Cohen
  277
Imaging Islam: Intellect and Imagination in Islamic Philosophy, Poetry, and Painting
James W. Morris
  294
India: A Laboratory of Inter-Religious Experiment
Maqbool Ahmed Siraj
  319
The Paradox of Proximity to the Infinite: An Exploration of Sidrat Al-Muntaha, "The Lote Tree Beyond Which None May Pass"
Hannah Bigelow Merriman
  329
Following
Steffen A.J. Stelzer
  343
Knowing the Heart Sutra by Heart
Joseph S. O'Leary
  356
Pure Perception and Equanimity of Heart
John Makransky
  371
On Seeing the Birth of the Heart
Mary M. Anderson
  384
Healing Wounds: Reflections on Abraham Joshua Heschel and Interfaith Partnership in Poland
Edward K. Kaplan
  411
Desire and the Desirable: Nicholas de Cusa's Interfaith Imagination
Swami Tyagananda
  420
Color Plates   458
Features:
Notes on Contributors   469
In Future Issues   478

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Volume 12 Number 4 (2008)

Georges Rouault and the Rhetoric of Expressionism
Claude Cernuschi
  479
Divine Anonymities: On Transascendence and Transdescendence in the Works of Levinas, Celan, and Lispector
Joseph Ballan
  540
Divided We Fall: Subtitles, Sound, and the Postwar Reconstruction of Language
James Neufeld
  559
Review Essays:
Milk and Honey, Hope and Glory: Anti-Modernism, Nostalgia, and Englishness in Twentieth-Century Britain
Kevin J. Gardner
  569
Shakespeare, His Contemporaries, and the Religions of His Time
Maurice Hunt
  585
Features:
Book Reviews   602
New Books   630
Notes on Contributors   644
Recent Critical Articles   646
Index to Volume 12 (2008)   655
In Future Issues   660

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Volume 13 Number 1 (2009)

Three Women Writers and the "Jesuit Sublime": Or, Jesuits in Love
Judith Wilt
  1
Pater Desiderius Lenz at Beuron: History, Egyptology, and Modernism in Nineteenth-Century German Monastic Art
Nancy Davenport
  14
From Stabat Pater to Prophetic Virgin: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Recovery of the Madonna-Figure
Kimberly VanEsveld Adams
  81
Review Essays:
A Question of Authenticity
Thomas Merriam
  122
Campion, Warts and All
Peter Milward, S.J.
  136
Features:
Book Reviews   146
Brief Mentions   159
New Books   162
Notes on Contributors   174
Announcements, Conferences, Exhibitions   176
In Future Issues   180

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Volume 13 Number 2 (2009)

"Who Would Believe What We Have Heard?": Christian Spirituality and Images from the Passion in Religious Art of New Spain
June-Ann Greeley
  181
Apollinaire's "Zone," Catholicism and the Paradox of French Modernity
Anca Mitroi
  205
Icons' Spirited Love
Glenn Peers
  218
Review Essays:
From the Western Mediterranean to East and Southeast Asia: Around the World in Religion and the Arts
John Renard
  248
"To Die and Know It"--Approaches to Literature
Marion Spies
  261
Features:
Book Reviews   275
New Books
  282
Notes on Contributors
  289
Announcements, Conferences, Exhibitions
  291
In Future Issues
  297

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Volume 13 Numbers 3 (2009)

Visualizing a Colonial Peruvian Community in the Eighteenth-Century Paintings of Our Lady of Cocharcas
Emily A. Engel
  299

Exodus Inverted: A New Look at The Grapes of Wrath
Ken Eckert
  340

On the Spirituality of Questioning: James Lee Byars's The White Mass (1995) at the Kunst-Station Sankt Peter Cologne
Friedhelm Mennekes
  358

Review Essays:
More on the Thinker
Peter Milward
  376

Features:
Book Reviews
382

New Books
  389

Notes on Contributors
  394

Announcements, Conferences, Exhibitions
  396

In Future Issues
  402

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Volume 13 Number 4 (2009)

Introduction
Daniela Merolla
  403
Creation Myths and the Visual Arts: An Ongoing Dialogue Between Word and Image
Mineke Schipper
  410
Visualizing Creation in Ancient Greece
Emma Stafford
  419
Sacred Embodiment: Fertility Ritual, Mother Goddess, and Cultures of Belly Dance
Stavros Stavrou Karayanni
  448
Social Life and the Dreamtime: Clues to Creation Myths as Rhetorical      
Devices in Tiwi Mortuary Ritual                                                                   464
Eric Venbrux                                                                                                 
Representing the "Sea Woman"
Jarich Oosten and Frederic Laugrand
  477
Bridging the Generation Gap: Creation (Hi)stories and the Visual Arts in Tamulte de las Sabanas, Mexico
Laura N.K. Van Broekhoven
  496
Filming African Creation Myths
Daniela Merolla
  521
Evangeline's Mission: Anti-Catholicism, Nativism, and Unitarianism in       547
Longfellow's Evangeline
Andrew Higgins
Revelations from the Back Yard: Charles Wright and Wittgenstein
Ben Leubner
  569

Review Essays:



Faith and Film
David McNutt
  595



Features:
Book Reviews   604
New Books   620
Notes on Contributors   633
Exhibitions, Conferences, Announcements
  637
Index to Volume 13 (2009)   643
In Future Issues   648

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Volume 14 Number 1-2 (2010)

The Buddha of the North: Swedenborg and Transpacific Zen
Devin Zuber
  1
Wordsworth in the Himalayas: Indian Narratology and Sacred Space in William Delafield Arnold's Oakfield: Fellowship in the East
Diana Louise Gander Ostrander
  34
Honoring the Form: Zen Moves in Charles Johnson's Oxherding Tale
Richard Collins
  59
Modernism and Mysticism in Germany: Wilhelm Worringer and Pater Desiderius Lenz
Nancy Davenport
  78
The Gospel of Thomas (Pynchon): Abandoning Eschatology in Gravity's   139 Rainbow
Joshua Pederson
Review Essay:
Traces of the Buddha in East Asia and Beyond
John Renard
  161
Features:
Book Reviews   173
New Books   198
Notes on Contributors   210
Announcements, Conferences, Exhibitions
In Future Issues
  213
220

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Volume 14 Number 3 (2010)







The Staff of Jesus in Early Christian Life

Lee M. Jefferson     221

Prospero's Exile and the Tempest of the English Reformation

Todd Edmondson     252

Catholic Predilections in the Poetics of Gerard Manley Hopkins and Seamus Heaney

Jiong Liu                267

Review Essays

Religion and the Arts in Islamic Studies

John Renard            297

The Survival of Literature in Unlikely Places: Literature and Aesthetics after Auschwitz

Marion Spies             318

Von Balthasar as Transmodernist: Recent Works on Theological Aesthetics

Dutton Kearney          332

Features

Book Reviews            341

Brief Mentions            353

New Books                355

Notes on Contributors 359

Exhibitions, Conferences, Announcements         361

In Future Issues        365

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Volume 14 Number 4 (2010)

Plato and the Theatre of the Occult Revival: Edouard Schure, Katherine Tingley, and Rudolph Steiner

Edmund P. Lingan       367

Our Lady of Guanganmen

Jeremy Clarke, S.J.     386

Thomas Merton on Art and Religion in William Faulkner

Ross Labrie                401

Strange Solitary Mystic: Tracing the Dark Night of the Soul in Kerouac's Desolation Angels and Big Sur

Mary-Beth Brophy       418

Review Essays

Five Full Years: Shakespeare and "The Catholic Hypothesis" Today

Peter Milward, S.J.     448

The Old Faith, "The Old Sod," and the New Critical Openness

Dennis Taylor             459

Features

Book Reviews            467

Brief Mentions            494

New Books                497

Notes on Contributors 501

Exhibitions, Conferences, Announcements         503

In Future Issues         513 

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Volume 14 Number 5 (2010)

Special Issue

Hospitality: Imagining the Stranger

  • Introduction Hospitality: Imagining the Stranger by Christopher Yates  512
  • Becoming Stranger: Defending the Ethics of Absolute Hospitality in a Potentially Hostile World by Joshua Mills-Knutsen  522
  • "...An End and a Beginning...": Richard Kearney on Welcoming Divine Strangers and Writing Divine Words by Ian Marcus Corbin  534
  • The Anatheistic Wager: faith after Faith by Brian Treanor  546
  • Unavailability: When Neighbors Become Strangers by Boyd Blundell  560
  • Torn Flesh: Julian Kristeva and the Giveness of the Stranger by Elyse Purcell  572
  • Incarnate Experience and Keeping the Soul Ajar by Kascha Semonovitch  590
  • Grammar of the Uncanny by Christopher Yates  616

Review Essays

  • Approaching the Book in Medieval England by Carlee A. Bradbury  625
  • The Peculiar Presence of the Body in the Arts by Tyrus Clutter   632
  • Filling in the Picture: The Jewish Art Question by Aaron Rosen  640

Features

  • Book Reviews          647
  • Brief Mentions         662
  • New Books             665
  • Notes on Contributors     670
  • Exhibitions, Conferences, Announcements     673
  • Index to Volume 14      682
  • In Future Issues      691

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Volume 15 Number 1-2 (2011)

Special Section: Jerusalem

  • Jewish-Muslim Veneration at Pilgrimage Places in the Holy Land by Pamela Berger  1
  • Portrait of a Local Saint: Hanna of Jerusalem by Roberta Ervine  61
  • "Palestine Sits in Sackcloth and Ashes": Reading Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad as a Protestant Holy Land Narrative by Brooke Sherrard  82
  • Investigating (in) Multi-Cultural Jerusalem: Jonathan Kellerman's The Butcher's Theatre by Nina Fischer  111

End of Special Section

  • "The Mutual Flame of Love": Spiritual Marriage in Shakespeare's The Phoenix and the Turtle by Fr. David Beauregard  131
  • "Earth has clear call of daily bells": Nature's Apocalyptic Liturgy in Christina Rossetti's Verses by Chene Heady  148
  • A Pilgrimage to Passion: Charles Ryder's Emotional Conversion in Brideshead Revisited by Dustin Faulstick  172
  • Tim Gautreaux's The Missing: Journeys of Vengeance or Belonging? by L. Lamar Nisly  193

Review Essays

  • The Challenging of the Secular in Nineteenth-Century British Literature by Matthew VanWinkle  210

Features

  • Book Reviews  222
  • New Books  240
  • Notes on Contributors  247
  • Exhibitions, Conferences, Announcements  250
  • In Future Issues  260


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Volume 15 Number 3 (2011)

  • Publisher's Note  261
  • Two Realms of Light: Peter Paul Ruben's "Assumption of Mary" (1626) and Gregory Schneider's "End" (2008) by Friedhelm Mennekes  263
  • William Etty's Magdalens: Sexual Desire and Spirituality in Early Victorian England by Dominic Janes  277
  • Jerusalem Revisited: On Auguste Salzmann's Photo-Topography by Randy Innes  306
  • Diagnosing Modernity: Eric Voegelin's Impact on the Worldview of Walker Percy by Grant Kaplan  338

Review Essays

  • "A Gesture of Non Serviam": Victorian and Twentieth-Century Writers in Revolt by Marion Spies  369
  • Per Una Selva Oscura: T. S. Eliot, Catholicism, and Tradition by Kevin J. Gardner  379

Features

  • Book Reviews  390
  • Brief Mentions  404
  • New Books  407
  • Notes on Contributors  412
  • Exhibitions, Conferences, Announcements  414
  • In Future Issues  428

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Volume 15, Issue 4 (2011)

  • Cult, Countenance, and Community: Donor Portraits from the Colonial Andes by Maya Stanfield-Mazzi  429
  • The Gospel According to this Moment: Thoreau, Wildness, and American Nature Religion by Alan D. Hodder  460
  • Lazarus and the Sickness Unto Death: An Allegory of Despair by Simon D. Podmore  486
  • Pseudepigraphy, Anonymity, and Auteur Theory by Jason M. Silverman  520

Review Essays

  • Miltonic Engagements with Religion and the Arts by Jason A. Kerr  556

Features

  • Book Reviews  567
  • New Books  584
  • Notes on Contributors  587
  • Exhibitions, Conferences, Announcements  589
  • In Future Issues  601

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Volume 15, Issue 5 (2011)

  • Keeping the Dream Alive: Meridian as Alice Walker's Homage to Martin Luther King and the Beloved Community by Paul Tewkesbury  603  
  • Herman Trunk's Cubist Crucifix: A Case Study by Cynthia Fowler  628  
  • Cultural and Religious Reversals in Clint Eastwood's Gran Torino by Mark W. Roche & Vittorio Hosle  648

Review Essays

  • New Quar'anic Studies: Reading Islam's Sacred Text by John Renard  680 

Features

  • Book Reviews  687
  • Notes on Contributors  697
  • Exhibitions, Conferences, Announcements  699
  • Index to Volume 15 (2011)  705
  • In Future Issues     711 
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