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Volume 26, Issue 4 (2022)

Essays

429: "Visualizing the Emperor's Pantheon: Images and Efficacy of Daoist and Buddhist Scripture Containers in the Qianlong Court"
Zhenpeng Zhan

465: "Cistercian Adventures in Glass: From Noirlax to Conques"
Jonathan Koestle-Cate

498: Modernism, Identity, and Spirituality in Joseph Stella's Paintings of Christian Subjects
Herbert R. Hartel Jr.

Features

523: Book Reviews

547: Notes on Contributors

549: Exhibitions, Conferences, Announcements

567: In Future Issues

Volume 25, Issue 1-2

Essays

1: Introduction: 25
Years of Religion and the Arts

James Najarian

5: The Picture of
Language in Seeing the Nature of God in Kabbalah and Tantra

Paul C. Martin

35: Humility and
Influence: Female Agency and the Confraternity of Saint Rosalia in
Eighteenth-Century Cuenca

Isabel Oleas-Mogollón

70: The American Art
of Memory: Idealism and the Romantic Constitution of Cognitive Interiority

John Michael Corrigan

99: Jewish Humanism in
the Late Work of Geoffrey Hill

Jesse Russell

125: "When You
Stop Pretending That You Know": Gnosis, Humility, and Christian Charity in
Cormac Mccarthy's The Stonemason

D. Marcel DeCoste

147: "We Are Not
Aliens in the Universe": Marilynne Robinson's Imaginative Re-enchantment
of Protestantism

Sára Tóth

Reading Statement

173: Studying the
Bible in the "Post-Truth" Era

Leslie Brisman

Review Essay

187: "And Now
They Range": Early Modern Poems and Their Survival"

Adam H. Kitzes

Features

197: Book Reviews

215: Notes on
Contributors

219: Exhibitions,
Conferences, Announcements

241: In Future Issues

Print

Volume 24, Issue 24.1-2

Volume 20, Issue 20-3

Essays

267: Scorning the Image of Virtue: The Player Nathan Field's Letter to the Reverend Thomas Sutton, 1616
Patricia J. McKee

290: Being Given Orthodoxy: G.K. Chesterton, Jean-Luc Marion, and the Converting Event
Philip Irving Mitchell

459: Reflections on the Spiritual in Rothko
Rina Arya

336: Tradition and Tolerance: Reconfiguring Bihzad in Nadeem Aslam's The Wasted Vigil
Suhaan Mehta

Review Essays

355: Messiaen and His Milieu: An Exploration of Stephen Schloesser's Visions of Amen: The Early Life and Music of Olivier Messiaen
Namji Kim

366: Verses Sacred and Profane: Anthony Thwaite's Valediction and Other New Poetry Collections
Kevin J. Gardner

Features

379: Book Reviews

391: New Books

401: Notes on Contributors

405: Exhibitions, Conferences, Announcements

417: In Future Issues

Volume 20, Issue 20-1-2

Essays

1: Editors' Introduction: Religion and the Arts of Global Asia
Sheila Blair and Rui Oliveira Lopes

5: Illustrations of the Mulian Story and the Tradition of Narrative Painting in China (Tenth-Fifteenth Centuries)
Rostislav Berezkin

29: Invoking the Prophet Muhammad Through Word, Sound, and Image: Verbal, Vocal, and Visual Images in the Religious Arts of Islam
Sheila Blair

59: Realms Beyond: Half-Open Doors in Chinese Funerary Art
Fei Deng

92: A Study on the So-Called Dong Qichang Album Discovered by Berthold Laufer
Shaoxin Dong

112: Hindu Temples and the Emanating Cosmos
Adam Hardy

135: Depictions of the Journey to the Heavenly Realm in Early Modern Catholic and Japanese Buddhist Iconography
Naoko Frances Hioki

160: A New Light on the Shadows of Heavenly Bodies: Indian Shadow Puppets: From Still Paintings to Motion Pictures
Rui Oliveira Lopes

197: Daoist Scripture Frontispieces and Their Archetypes
Maggie C.K. Wan

Features

231: Book Reviews

251: Notes on Contributors

255: Exhibitions, Conferences, Announcements

265: In Future Issues

Volume 24, Issue 24.1-2

Volume 20, Issue 20-3

Essays

267: Scorning the Image of Virtue: The Player Nathan Field's Letter to the Reverend Thomas Sutton, 1616
Patricia J. McKee

290: Being Given Orthodoxy: G.K. Chesterton, Jean-Luc Marion, and the Converting Event
Philip Irving Mitchell

459: Reflections on the Spiritual in Rothko
Rina Arya

336: Tradition and Tolerance: Reconfiguring Bihzad in Nadeem Aslam's The Wasted Vigil
Suhaan Mehta

Review Essays

355: Messiaen and His Milieu: An Exploration of Stephen Schloesser's Visions of Amen: The Early Life and Music of Olivier Messiaen
Namji Kim

366: Verses Sacred and Profane: Anthony Thwaite's Valediction and Other New Poetry Collections
Kevin J. Gardner

Features

379: Book Reviews

391: New Books

401: Notes on Contributors

405: Exhibitions, Conferences, Announcements

417: In Future Issues

Volume 20, Issue 20-1-2

Essays

1: Editors' Introduction: Religion and the Arts of Global Asia
Sheila Blair and Rui Oliveira Lopes

5: Illustrations of the Mulian Story and the Tradition of Narrative Painting in China (Tenth-Fifteenth Centuries)
Rostislav Berezkin

29: Invoking the Prophet Muhammad Through Word, Sound, and Image: Verbal, Vocal, and Visual Images in the Religious Arts of Islam
Sheila Blair

59: Realms Beyond: Half-Open Doors in Chinese Funerary Art
Fei Deng

92: A Study on the So-Called Dong Qichang Album Discovered by Berthold Laufer
Shaoxin Dong

112: Hindu Temples and the Emanating Cosmos
Adam Hardy

135: Depictions of the Journey to the Heavenly Realm in Early Modern Catholic and Japanese Buddhist Iconography
Naoko Frances Hioki

160: A New Light on the Shadows of Heavenly Bodies: Indian Shadow Puppets: From Still Paintings to Motion Pictures
Rui Oliveira Lopes

197: Daoist Scripture Frontispieces and Their Archetypes
Maggie C.K. Wan

Features

231: Book Reviews

251: Notes on Contributors

255: Exhibitions, Conferences, Announcements

265: In Future Issues

Volume 20, Issue 20-4

Essays

419: Redemption and Transformation: Making Sense of Richard Wagner's Parsifal
Matthias Gockel

320: Arius and the Vampire: Figures of Heresy and Disruption in James Joyce's Ulysses
Gregory Erickson

459: "We May be Through with the Past ...": Magnolia, The Exodus Plague Narrative, and Tradition History
Jason M. Silverman

491: "The Glorious Impossible": Belief and Ambiguity in the Fiction of Alice McDermott
Michael O'Connell

Review Essay

507: Materializing the Spiritual: Two Studies of Rubens's Religious Works
Thomas Worthen

Features

515: Book Reviews

533: New Books

539: Notes on Contributors

541: Exhibitions, Conferences, Announcements

551: In Future Issues

Volume 20, Issue 20-3

Essays

267: Scorning the Image of Virtue: The Player Nathan Field's Letter to the Reverend Thomas Sutton, 1616
Patricia J. McKee

290: Being Given Orthodoxy: G.K. Chesterton, Jean-Luc Marion, and the Converting Event
Philip Irving Mitchell

459: Reflections on the Spiritual in Rothko
Rina Arya

336: Tradition and Tolerance: Reconfiguring Bihzad in Nadeem Aslam's The Wasted Vigil
Suhaan Mehta

Review Essays

355: Messiaen and His Milieu: An Exploration of Stephen Schloesser's Visions of Amen: The Early Life and Music of Olivier Messiaen
Namji Kim

366: Verses Sacred and Profane: Anthony Thwaite's Valediction and Other New Poetry Collections
Kevin J. Gardner

Features

379: Book Reviews

391: New Books

401: Notes on Contributors

405: Exhibitions, Conferences, Announcements

417: In Future Issues

Volume 20, Issue 20-1-2

Essays

1: Editors' Introduction: Religion and the Arts of Global Asia
Sheila Blair and Rui Oliveira Lopes

5: Illustrations of the Mulian Story and the Tradition of Narrative Painting in China (Tenth-Fifteenth Centuries)
Rostislav Berezkin

29: Invoking the Prophet Muhammad Through Word, Sound, and Image: Verbal, Vocal, and Visual Images in the Religious Arts of Islam
Sheila Blair

59: Realms Beyond: Half-Open Doors in Chinese Funerary Art
Fei Deng

92: A Study on the So-Called Dong Qichang Album Discovered by Berthold Laufer
Shaoxin Dong

112: Hindu Temples and the Emanating Cosmos
Adam Hardy

135: Depictions of the Journey to the Heavenly Realm in Early Modern Catholic and Japanese Buddhist Iconography
Naoko Frances Hioki

160: A New Light on the Shadows of Heavenly Bodies: Indian Shadow Puppets: From Still Paintings to Motion Pictures
Rui Oliveira Lopes

197: Daoist Scripture Frontispieces and Their Archetypes
Maggie C.K. Wan

Features

231: Book Reviews

251: Notes on Contributors

255: Exhibitions, Conferences, Announcements

265: In Future Issues

Volume 19, Issue 19-1-2

Essays

1: "Bending Heaven Down to Earth: The Medieval Icon"
Arianne Francoise Conty

31: "Faith and Redemption in The Winter's Tale"
Lysbeth Em Berkert

51: "Toadstools, Bartleby, and Badiou: Herman Melville's Response to the Quest for the Historical Jesus"
Justin Saxby

74: "Teaching for Conversion: Faith, Doubt, and Gerard Manley Hopkins in the Evangelical Academy"
Andrew Armond

84: "'Never the Right Food': The Physical and Material Worlds in John Updike's Rabbit, Run and Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood"
Michial Farmer

Review Essays

107: "Exploring the Critical Turn to Religion in Early Modern Drama Studies"
Rebecca Munro

121: "The Restripping of the Altars: Evelyn Waugh and the Reforms of Vatican II"
Kevin J. Gardner

Features

133: Book Reviews

143: Brief Mentions

147: Notes on Contributors

149: Exhibitions, Conferences, Announcements

161: In Future Issues

Volume 19, Issue 19-3

Essays

163: The Holy Spirit and the Soul as Revealed in Nature: The Ideals of John Ruskin (1819-1900) in the Art of Anna Lea Merritt (1844-1930)
Nancy Davenport

214: Ad Reinhardt's 'Black' Paintings: A Matter of Time
Arden Reed

230: Finding the Prophetic in Failure: A Postsecular Reading of E. L. Doctorow'sCity of God
Kathryn Ludwig

Features

259: Book Reviews

271: New Books

277: Notes on Contributors

279: Exhibitions, Conferences, Announcements

293: In Future Issues

Volume 19, Issue 19-4

Essays

295: From Metaphor to Theology: The Suffering Servant
Leslie Brisman

320: Hopkins's Sermons and "Felix Randal": Responses to Hardship in his Urban Parishes
Elaine F. Marshall

339: Healing Vibrations Through Visionary Art
Maggie Atkinson

389: Literary Catholicity: An Alternate Reading of Influence in the Work of C. S. Lewis and G. K. CHesterton
Benjamin Fischer and Philip C. Derbesy

Features

411: Notes on Contributors

413: Exhibitions, Conferences, Announcements

425: In Future Issues

Volume 19, Issue 19-5

Essays

427: Evolution and Exegesis: The Spirit of Freedom Through Visual Narrative
Maggie Atkinson

488: A Progressive View on Religion and Modern Art: The 1944 Religious Art of Today Exhibition at Boston's Institute of Modern Art
Cynthia Fowler

531: Commanding Angels: Rilke and Merrill
Ben Leubner

552: Codas of Creation: Emanation Mysticism and Alchemical Regeneration in Terrence Malick's The Tree of Life
John Michael Corrigan

Review Essays

583: New Light on Old Misunderstandings: Recent Research on Islamic History, Thought, and Art
John Renard

591: Liturgical Practice and Poetic Dissent in Antebellum America
H. Collin Messer

Features

599: Brief Mentions

601: New Books

613: Notes on Contributors

615: Exhibitions, Conferences, Announcements

627: Index to Volume 19 (2015)

631: In Future Issues

Volume 18, Issue 18-1-2

1: Editors' Introduction: Christianity and Latin American Art
Ronald R. Bernier and Rachel Hostetter Smith

Part I

5: Introduction to Part I: Time and Its Transformations from the Old World to the New
Maya Stanfield Mazzi

11: El Pueblo de Nuestra Senora la Reina de los Angeles de la Porciuncula: Or How Los Angeles Got Its Name
Marilyn Aronberg Lavin

26: The Artistic Posterity of Joachim of Fiore in LAtin America
Jaime Lara

61: The Continuity of Sacred Urban Open Space: Facilitating the Indian Conversion to Catholicism in Mesoamerica
E. Logan Wagner

87: Mexican Instauration: Devotopn and Transformation in New Spain
Cristina Cruz Gonzalez

Part II

114: Introduction to Part II: Piety in Practice
Lara Medina

120: An Art Historian Encounters a Hybrid Global History at Home: Alfredo Ramos Martinez's Designs for Sacred Spaces
Mary Goodwin

156: God-Bearers on Pilgrimage to Tepeyac: A Scholar of Religion Encounters the Material Dimension of Marian Devotion in Mexico
Jennifer Scheper Hughes

184: An Artist Photographs the VIsual Witness of Grave Images
Kathy T. Hettinga

222: An Artist-Scholar Finds Beauty from Ashes: Brazilian Artist Duda Penteado
J. Casale Taylor Basker

Part III

239: Introduction to Part III: The Intersection of Contemporary Latin American Art and Religion
Charlene Villasenor Black

245: La Conquistadora: A Conquering Virgin Meets her Match
Anne Marie Leimer

269: Contingency and Faithfulness: Francis Alys and the (Re)Presentation of St. Fabiola
Jonathan A. Anderson

291: Notes on Contributors

296: In Future Issues

Volume 18, Issue 18-4

Essays

447: Mapping the Word, Reading the World: Biocartography and the "Historical" Jesus
John D. Thomas

498: D.H. Lawrence's Theology of the Body: Intersections with John Paul II's Man and Woman He Created Them
N.S. Boone

521: Musical Icons: A Theological Reflections on Dmitri Shostakovich's "Leningrad" Symphony
Anna Davis

543: The Sleep of Christ: Incarnation and the Queerness of Heresy in W.H. Auden's "For the Time Being"
Raji Singh Soni

571: "A Little Willingness to See": Sacramental Vision in Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping and Gilead
Andrew C. Stout

Features

591: Book Reviews

603: Brief Mentions

605: New Books

609: Notes on Contributors

611: Exhibitions, Conferences, Announcements

618: In Future Issues

Volume 18, Issue 18-5

Essays

618: "A Religious Futurism: The Catholic Modernist Crisis in the Material Imaginary of Umberto Boccioni"
Anna Frey Taylor

636: "The Art of THe Lord of the Rings: A Defense of the Aesthetic"
Rebecca Munro

653: "Holden Caulfield: Sort of a Christian"
Bryce A. Taylor

672: "Grids: A Kraussian Perspective on New Windows for the Church"
Jonathan Koestle-Cate

Review Essay

701: Deciphering the Enigma of Iran: From Z[oroaster] to A[yatollah]
John Renard

Features

713: Book Reviews

731: New Books

735: Notes on Contributors

737: Exhibitions, Conferences, Announcements

747: Index to Volume 18 (2014)

752: In Future Issues

Volume 17, Issue 17-1-2

1: "Introduction: Special Section on Contemporary Art and Religion"
Loren Lerner

20: "A Post-Metaphysical Turn: COntingency and Givenness in the Early Work of Dan Flavin (1959-1964)"
Adi Louria-Hayon

57: "'To See the World in a Grain of Sand': Wolfgang Laib and the Aesthetics of Interpenetrability"
Celina Jeffery

74: "A Nuclear Rapture: The Apocalyptic Art of Kenny Scharf"
Natalie E. Phillips

98: "León Ferrari's Hell"
Todd Porterfield

(end of special section)

114: "'Christianity and Mountainanity': The Restoration Movement's Influence on John Muir"
John Pierce

135: "A Congeries of Lichee Nuts for America: Chinese Religion in Edgar Lee Masters's New York Chinatown Poetry Collection"
Yuemin He

Review Essay

157: New World Missions and the Spanish Context
Christopher K. Coffman

Features

167: Book Reviews

186: New Books

191: Notes on Contributors

195: Exhibitions, Conferences, Announcements

202: In Future Issues

Volume 17, Issue 17-3

Essays

203: "Gustavo Gutiérrez Meets Giuseppe Verdi: The Beauty of Liberation and the Liberation of Beauty"
James B. Nickoloff

222: "The Banished God: Concerning Faith and Doubt in Lohengrin"
Ulrike Kienzle (Translated by Ralf Yusuf Gawlick)

246: "Die Sieger and Die Wibelungen: How Parsifal is the Fifth Opera of Wagner's Ring"
Paul Schofield 246

271: "Das 'Ewige Kunstwerk': Friedrich Nietzsche's Apollonian-Dionysian Opposition in Richard Strauss's Daphne"
Margarethe Satorius

289: "Significations of Religious Desire in Louise Talma's The Alcestiad"
Kendra Preston Leonard

Features

311: Book Reviews

325: New Books

329: Notes on Contributors

332: Exhibitions, Conferences, Announcements

340: In Future Issues

Volume 17, Issue 17-4

341: "William Holman Hunt's Holy War in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem"
Nancy Davenport

381: "'This Earth Was Once a Garden Place': Millennial Utopianism in Nineteenth-Century Mormon Poetry"
Scott Hales

416: "'Playing the Football of Love on the Field of the Body': The Contemporary Repertoire of Baul Songs"
Carola Erika Lorea

Review Essay

452: "Islamic Architectre: Creativity and Pluralism in the Religious Cultures of Islamdom"
John Renard

Features

463: Book Reviews

476: New Books

479: Notes on Contributors

481: Exhibitions, Conferences, Announcements

487: In Future Issues

Volume 17, Issue 17-5

489-506: "Charles Dickens and the Victorian 'Mormon Moment'"
Scott Dransfield

507-522: "'Incarnational Art': Thing Theory and Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood"
Olivia McGuire

523-544: "Open Completeness: Messiaen's 'Quartet for the End of Time'"
David Greene

545-567: "Silence and Geoffrey Hill's Poetics of Witness"
Caleb Caldwell

Review Essays

568-575: "New Qur'anic Studies II: Reading Islam's Sacred Text"
John Renard

576-587: "In Praise of Language"
Rebecca Munro

588-600: "Victorian Bibliocentrism and the Struggle over One Book"
Chad P. Stutz

601-606: "Looking at Communities: Modernists, English Catholics, and Apocalyptic Pluralists"
Marion Spies

Features

607-638: Book Reviews

639-642: New Books

643-644: Notes on Contributors

645-656: Exhibitions, Conferences, Announcements

657-663: Index to Volume 17 (2013)

664-664: In Future Issues

Volume 16, Issue 16-1-2

1: The Possibilty of Theomusicology: William Bradbury's Esther, the Beautiful Queen
Juanita Karpf

29: William Holman Hunt: Layered Belief in the Art of a Pre-Raphelite Realist
Nancy Davenport

78: "Where Are We Really Going? Always Home": Thomas Merton and Herman Hesse
John Collins

100: "I Bid Thee Arise!": Reverse-Editing and Reversal Miracles in Carl Theodor Dreyer's Ordet
Justin Ponder

Review Essay

122: Symbols of Faith in Music: Siglind Bruhn's Analysis of Olivier Messiaen's Music
Namji Kim

Features

135: Book Reviews

160: New Books

172: Notes on Contributors

174: Exhibitions, Conferences, Announcements

184: Future Issues

Volume 16, Issue 16-3

185: "Shortly They Will Play Me in What Forms They List Upon the Stage": Hamlet, Conscience, and the Earl of Essex"
Jeremy Venema

211: "Meditation and Atonement in the Art of Marc Chagall"
David Lyle Jeffrey

231: "Rivalry, Retribution, and Religion: The Art of Paul Pfeiffer"
Isabelle Loring Wallace

Review Essays

263: "There is Always Something to be Added to the Story": Concepts to Cope with Postreligious Culture"
Marion Spies

Features

271: Book Reviews

281: Brief Mentions

287: New Books

292: Notes on Contributors

294: Exhibitions, Conferences, Announcements

304: In Future Issues

Volume 16, Issue 16-4

305: "The Devil, the Violin and Paganini: The Myth of the Violin as Satan's Instrument"
Robert W. Berger

328: "From Judah to Jamaica: The Psalms in Rastafari Reggae"
Joseph Thompson

357: "Listening for 'The Silence of the Night': Reading Kevin Hart's 'The Voice of Brisbane'"
Lachlan Brown

Review Essay

381: "Shakespeare and the Catholic Spectrum"
Lee Oser

Features

391: Book Reviews

409: Brief Mentions

416: New Books

419: Notes on Contributors

421: Exhibitions, Conferences, Announcements

430: In Future Issues

Volume 16, Issue 16-5

433: "Real Living Painting: Quasi-Objects and Dividuation in the Byzantine World"
Glenn Peers

461: "Absolute Art: Nicolas of Cusa's De Visione Dei"
Arianne Conty

488: "Islamic Images of Isa/Jesus in the Chester Beatty Manuscript Collection: Visual Art as Framework for Comparative Christology"
Miriam Perkins

507: "Reexamining the Allegorical Hermeneutic in A.B. Yehoshua's A Late Divorce"
Nathan Paul Devir

539: "Reflections from the Bottom of a Brillo Box: A Theological Inquiry into the End(s) of Art"
J. Sage Elwell

"A Conversation on Geoffrey Hill: Three Short Essays"

561: "Uncommon Equivocation in Geoffrey Hill"
Kevin Hart

573: "Geoffrey Hill, René Girard, and the Logic of Sacrifice"
William A. Johnsen

581: "The Mystery of the Charity of Geoffrey Hill"
Henry Weinfield

Review Essay

589: "Making History, Reading Literature, Getting Religion"
K.P. Van Anglen

Features

603: Book Reviews

617: New Books

619: Notes on Contributors

622: Exhibitions, Conferences, Announcements

635: Index to Volume 16 (2012)

642: In Future Issues

Volume 15, Issue 15-1-2

1: Jewish-Muslim Veneration at Pilgrimage Places in the Holy Land
Pamela Berger

61: Portrait of a Local Saint: Hanna of Jerusalem
Roberta Ervine

82: "Palestine Sits in Sackcloth and Ashes": Reading Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad as a Protestant Holy Land Narrative
Brooke Sherrard

111: Investigating (in) Multi-Cultural Jerusalem: Jonathan Kellerman's The Butcher's Theatre
Nina Fischer

End of Special Section

131: "The Mutual Flame of Love": Spiritual Marriage in Shakespeare's The Phoenix and the Turtle
Fr. David Beauregard

148: "Earth has clear call of daily bells": Nature's Apocalyptic Liturgy in Christina Rossetti's Verses
Chene Heady

172: A Pilgrimage to Passion: Charles Ryder's Emotional Conversion in Brideshead Revisited
Dustin Faulstick

193: Tim Gautreaux's The Missing: Journeys of Vengeance or Belonging?
L. Lamar Nisly

Review Essays

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

Features

222: Book Reviews

240: New Books

247: Notes on Contributors

250: Exhibitions, Conferences, Announcements

260: In Future Issues

Volume 15, Issue 15-3

Volume 15, Issue 15-4

Volume 15, Issue 15-5

Volume 14, Issue 14-1-2

Volume 14, Issue 14-3

Volume 14, Issue 14-4

Volume 14, Issue 14-5

Volume 13, Issue 13-1

1: Three Women Writers and the "Jesuit Sublime"
Judith Wilt

14: Pater Desiderius at Beuron: History, Egyptology, and Modernism in Nineteenth-Century German Monastic Art
Nancy Davenport

81: From Stabat Pater to Prophetic Virgin: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Recovery of the Madonna Figure
Kimberly VanEsveld Adams

Review Essays

122: A Question of Authenticity
Thomas Merriam

136: Campion, Warts and All
Peter Milward, S.J.

146: Book Reviews

159: Brief Mentions

162: New Books

174: Notes on Contributors

176: Announcements, Conferences, Exhibitions

180: In Future Issues

Volume 13, Issue 13-2

Volume 13, Issue 13-3

Volume 13, Issue 13-4

Volume 12 (2008)

Volume 12, Issues 1-3

In Memoriam: Ronald Anderson, S.J.		1
Introduction: A Pilgrimage to the Heart Richard Kearney		3
Traversals (I): Hindu-Christian 1. The Bangalore Conference
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
2. In the Wake of Bangalore
The Heart Beyond Hearts Swami Tyagananda		186
Childhood, Intuition, Vocation: Remembering Sara Grant Fanny Howe		190
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
Traversals (II): Christian-Islamic-Buddhist-Jewish 1. Islamic Legacies
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
2. Buddhist Offerings
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
3. Jewish and Christian Transformations
Healing Wounds: Reflections on Abraham Joshua Heschel and Interfaith Parternership in Poland Edward K. Kaplan		411
Desire and the Desirable: Nicholas de Cusa's Interfaith Imagination Fred Dallmayr		420
Promises of Advent: North and South Eileen Rizo-Patron		434
Color Plates		458
Features:
Notes on Contributors		469
In Future Issues		478

Volume 12, Issue 12-4

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
Book Reviews		602
New Books		630
Notes on Contributors		644
Recent Critical Articles		646
Index to Volume 12 (2008)		655
In Future Issues		660

Volume 11 (2007)

Volume 11, Issue 11-1

Volume 11, Issue 11-2

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
Review Essays:
War and Peace in Shakespeare Peter Milward, S.J.		250
Surviving and Starting Life Anew: Consequences of an Exodus Marion Spies		257
Features:
Book Reviews		267
Brief Mentions		274
New Books		278
Notes on Contributors		284
Announcements, Conferences, Exhibitions		286
Recent Critical Articles		294
In Future Issues		297

Volume 11, Issue 11-2

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 Laura 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 De Otio Religioso: Petrarch and the Laicization of Western Monastic Asceticism Demetrio S. Yocum		436 454
Review Essays:
Religion in Early Modern England: Two Recent Commentaries Nicole M. Coonradt Who Is the Thinker? Peter Milward, S.J. The Absolutely True Metanarrative or a Partially True Micronarrative?: The Place of Roman Catholicism in Southern Literature Ralph C. Wood		480 494 503
Features:
Book Reviews		509
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

Volume 10 (2006)

Volume 10, Issue 10-1

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

Volume 10, Issue 10-2

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

Volume 10, Issue 10-3

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

Volume 10, Issue 10-4

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

Volume 9 (2005)

Volume 9, Issue 9-1-2

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

Volume 9, Issue 9-3-4

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

Volume 8 (2004)

Volume 8, Issue 8-1

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 Hildebidle		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

Volume 8, Issue 8-2

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

Volume 8, Issue 8-3

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

Volume 8, Issue 8-4

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

Volume 7 (2003)

Volume 7, Issue 7-1-2

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

Volume 7, Issue 7-3

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

Volume 7, Issue 7-4

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

Volume 6 (2002)

Volume 6, Issue 6-1-2

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

Volume 6, Issue 6-3

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

Volume 6, Issue 6-4

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

Volume 5 (2001)

Volume 5, Issue 5-1-2

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 Tom Zaniello		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

Volume 5, Issue 5-3

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

Volume 5, Issue 5-4

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

Volume 4 (2000)

Volume 4, Issue 4-1

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

Volume 4, Issue 4-2

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

Volume 4, Issue 4-3

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

Volume 4, Issue 4-4

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

Volume 3 (1999)

Volume 3, Issue 3-1

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

Volume 3, Issue 3-2

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

Volume 3, Issue 3-3-4

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

Volume 2 (1998)

Volume 2, Issue 1

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

Volume 2, Issue 2

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

Volume 2, Issue 3

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

Volume 2, Issue 4

"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

Volume 1 (1997)

Volume 1, Issue 1

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, Issue 2

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

Volume 1, Issue 3

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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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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