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Christianity & Literature Volume 69, Issue 1 (March 2020) is a special issue on Literature of / about the Christian Right, guest edited by Christopher Douglas (University of Victoria). It is available without a subscription on Project MUSE for a limited time here.
Douglas also wrote piece about the special issue in Religion Dispatches titled "What Fundamentalist Christian Fiction Can Teach Us About Our American Crisis."
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JOURNAL STAFF
Editor
Mark Eaton, Azusa Pacific University, USA
Associate Editors
Matthew J. Smith, Azusa Pacific University, USA
Caleb D. Spencer, Azusa Pacific University, USA
Book Review Editor
Philip Mitchell, Dallas Baptist University, USA
Poetry Editor
Peter Cooley, Tulane University, USA
Managing Editor
Katy Wright-Bushman
Editorial Advisory Board
Ann W. Astell, University of Notre Dame, USA
Lori Branch, University of Iowa, USA
Paul Contino, Pepperdine University, USA
John D. Cox, Hope College, USA
Christopher Douglas, University of Victoria, Canada
Lori Ann Ferrell, Claremont Graduate University, USA
Kevin Hart, University of Virginia, USA
David D. Hall, Harvard Divinity School, USA
Peter S. Hawkins, Yale University, USA
Colin Jager, Rutgers University, USA
David Lyle Jeffery, Baylor University, USA
Janet Larson, Rutgers University, Newark, USA
Julia Reinhart Lupton, University of California, Irvine, USA
Susannah Monta, University of Notre Dame, USA
Maire Mullins, Pepperdine University, USA
SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Christianity & Literature is a peer-reviewed scholarly journal. Published quarterly in March, June, September, and December, each issue contains articles, book reviews, and poems. Each submission is carefully evaluated by the editors. If the submission is deemed worthy of peer review, it is then sent to external reviewers in an anonymous, double-blind peer-review process. External reviewers are selected on the basis of their expertise in the fields or subject areas of each submission. The editors consider a submission only with the understanding that it has not been concurrently submitted elsewhere. Christianity & Literature is committed to a reasonable timeline for peer review. We expect to reach a decision on each submission within three to four months. In the case of unavoidable delays, the editors will attempt to communicate with authors.
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Articles must be submitted electronically to ScholarOne Manuscripts, the online peer-review system used by Christianity & Literature.
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• the essay, with title on first page, and page numbers on all following pages. There should be no author identification in the body of the essay.
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Mark Eaton, Editor
Christianity & Literature
Department of English
Azusa Pacific University
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Azusa, CA 91702-7000
Poetry
The poetry editor looks for poems that are clear and surprising. They should have a compelling sense of voice, formal sophistication (though not necessarily rhyme and meter), and the ability to reveal the spiritual through concrete images.
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Peter Cooley, Poetry Editor
Christianity & Literature
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Please be sure to include all relevant contact information along with the poem or poems: name, address, and especially your email. Because of the volume of poetry received, submissions will not be acknowledged or returned unless they are accompanied by an SASE with sufficient return postage.
Book Reviews
The editors assign book reviews by invitation only. If you would like to suggest a book for review or offer to write a book review, please write to Philip Mitchell at philipm@dbu.edu. If you are an author or publisher, please send books for review to:
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Christianity & Literature
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IMAGO DEI
Read excerpts from the book, Imago Dei, featuring poetry from 60 years of Christianity & Literature.
CURRENT ISSUE
Christianity & Literature Volume 69, Issue 4 (December 2020)
Articles
1. Annarose Steinke, “’Parsimonious / Presentations’: Mina Loy's Crisis of (Christian) Representation”
2. Kevin Piper, “A Love for God or Country: Reframing Secularity in the Devout Catholic Fiction of Dena Hunt”
3. Elizabeth Ludlow, “The Representation and Reappraisal of St. Monica of Hippo in Nineteenth-Century Women’s Writing”
4. William Tate, “To Mean What Once We Said: Richard Wilbur Celebrates the Fourth of July”
5. Alexander Burdge, “Physics as Spiritual Exercise: T. S. Eliot and Natural Contemplation”
Poetry
Todd Copeland, "Self-Study with Assorted Shadows"
Carl Winderl, "and so"
William Virgil Davis, “The Sacrifice”
Book Reviews
1. Janet McCann / Deer at Twilight, Poems from the North Cascades. By Paul J. Willis. Nacogdoches TX: Steven F. Austin State University Press, 2018. ISBN 978-1-62288-182-6. Pp. 95. $16.00. Also Little Rhymes for Lowly Plants, Poems. By Paul J. Willis. American Fork, Utah: Kelsey Books, White Violet Press, 2019. ISBN 978194229493. Pp.77. $14.95.
2. Lawrence F. Rhu / The Four Rings: New and Selected Poems. By Fred Dings. Nacogdoches, TX: Stephen F. Austin University Press, 2020. ISBN 1-622-88304-7. Pp. 112. $18.00.
3. Zachary D. Schmoll / Middle-earth and the Return of the Common Good: J.R.R. Tolkien and Political Philosophy. By Joshua Hren. Eugene, OR: Cascade Books, 2018. ISBN 978-1-5326-1119-3. Pp. 203. $26.00.
4. Renea McKenzie / Langston’s Salvation: American Religion and the Bard of Harlem. By Wallace D. Best. New York: New York University Press, 2017. ISBN 978-1-4798-3489-1. Pp. ix + 289. $89.00.
5. John J. Han / Transplant, Transport, Transubstantiation: Poems. By Marjorie Maddox. Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2018. ISBN: 978-1-5326-5512-8. Pp. 110. $14.00.
6. Grace Perry McCright / Understanding Marilynne Robinson. By Alex Engebretson. University of South Carolina Press, 2017. ISBN 978-1-61117-802-9. Pp. ix + 154. $39.99. Also Balm in Gilead: A Theological Dialogue with Marilynne Robinson. Edited by Timothy Larsen and Keith L. Johnson. InterVarsity Press, 2019. ISBN 978-0-8308-5318-2. Pp. ix + 219. $28.00.
PREVIOUS ISSUES
Christianity & Literature Volume 69, Issue 1 (March 2020)
Special Issue: Literature of / about the Christian Right
Guest Editor: Christopher Douglas, University of Victoria
Christopher Douglas, "Introduction to Literature of / about the Christian Right"
Articles
1. Ray Horton, “Is There a Context for Gilead? Reading The Handmaid’s Tale and Lila under the Christian Right”
2. Margaret D. Kamitsuka, “Prolife Christian Romance Novels: A Sign that the Abortion-as-Murder Center is Not Holding?”
3. Andrew Connolly, “Masculinity, Political Action, and Spiritual Warfare in the Fictional Ministry of Frank E. Peretti”
4. Kenneth Paradis, “Types and Tropes: History and Moral Agency in Evangelical Inspirational Fiction”
5. Andrew S. Jacobs, “’This Piece of Parchment Will Shake the World’: The Mystery of Mar Saba and the Evangelical Prototype of a Secular Fiction Genre”
6. Harold K. Bush, “Miracles & the Postsecular: Some Unscientific Thoughts on Peace Like a River and Mariette in Ecstasy”
7. Susan Harding, “Secular Trouble: Regulating Reality in Non-fiction Literatures”
Poetry
Marjorie Maddox, "Seeing Things"
Marjorie Maddox, "Traveling Man"
T. Dallas Saylor, “Kent Island”
T. Dallas Saylor, “Encounter”
Book Reviews
1. Amber True / Conflicts of Devotion: Liturgical Poetics in Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century England. By Daniel R. Gibbons. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2017. ISBN 0-268-10134-5 [hbk]; ISBN 9780268101367 [pdf]; ISBN 9780268101374 [epub]. Pp. ix + 331. $60.00.
2. Ryan David Furlong / Sacraments of Memory: Catholicism and Slavery in Contemporary African American Literature. By Erin Michael Salius. Gainesville, Florida: University Press of Florida, 2018. ISBN 9780813056890. Pp. vii – 234. $79.95.
3. Christine Hand Jones / The Monk’s Record Player: Thomas Merton, Bob Dylan, and the Perilous Summer of 1966. By Robert Hudson. Grand Rapids: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2018. ISBN 978-0-8028-7520-4. Pp. vii-249. $23.99.
4. Timothy E.G. Bartel / Biblical Epics in Late Antiquity and Anglo-Saxon England: Divina in Laude Voluntas. By Patrick McBrine. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2017. ISBN: 0-802-09853-3. Pp. Xii + 384. $89.00
5. Charles Andrews / Virginia Woolf and Christian Culture. By Jane de Gay. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018. ISBN 978-1-4744-1563-7. Pp. ix + 246. $105.00.
6. Luke K. William / Expectation: Philosophy, Literature. By Jean-Luc Nancy. Trans. Robert Bononno. New York: Fordham University Press, 2018. ISBN 978-0-8232-7760-5. Pp. xx + 276. $35.00.
7. Harold K. Bush / If God Meant to Interfere: American Literature and the Rise of the Christian Right. By Christopher Douglas. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2016. ISBN 1501702114. viii + 367. $39.95.
8. Jesse Russell / The Year of Our Lord 1943: Christian Humanism in an Age of Crisis. By Alan Jacobs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018. ISBN 978-0190864651. Pp. 256. $30.00.
Christianity & Literature Volume 68, Issue 4 (September 2019)
Articles
1. Rachel B. Griffis, “’I'm a man of this time’: Categories of Sin and the Shadow of Dante in Cormac McCarthy's No Country for Old Men”
2. Taryn L. Okuma, “’Much to repent and repair’: Evelyn Waugh’s Sword of Honour and Modern War Literature”
3. Lisa Marciano, "Our God is a God of surprises": The Mystery of God in Dante's Writings”
4. Craig A. Boyd, “Nolo Heroizari: Tolkien and Aquinas on the Humble Journey of Master Samwise”
5. Lori A. Davis Perry, “Shylock, Bassanio, and the Jacob Narrative: Jewish Love and Christian Wealth in The Merchant of Venice”
6. Adam Glover, “Guillaume Grumsel and the Poetics of Eucharistic Desire”
Poetry
Andrew Kaufman, “What Was Saved at Ntarama Church Memorial” and “Sainte Famille Church in Kigali, Rwanda”
Sarah Gordon, “Original Sin” and “When Van Gogh released the crows over that wheatfield”
Book Reviews
1. David V. Urban / David B. Gowler, The Parables after Jesus: Their Imaginative Receptions across Two Millennia
2. Lucas Nossaman / Carol Ball, Approaching Jonathan Edwards: The Evolution of a Persona
3. Bernadette Waterman Ward / Clyde S. Kilby, A Well of Wonder: Essays on C.S. Lewis, J.R.R. Tolkien and the Inklings
4. Amy Carr / Cynthia R. Wallace, Of Women Borne: A Literary Ethics of Suffering
5. James M. Cochran / Kelly Sultzbach, Ecocriticism in the Modernist Imagination: Forster, Woolf, and Auden
6. Amanda E. Himes / Kathryn E. Davis, Liberty in Jane Austen’s Persuasion
7. Kyler Dill / Cooper Harriss, Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Theology
8. Lyle Enright / Jessica Hooten Wilson, Giving the Devil His Due: Demonic Authority in the Fiction of Flannery O’Connor and Fyodor Dostoevsky and Jessica Hooten Wilson, Walker Percy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the Search for Influence
9. Peter G. Epps / Mark W. Dennis and Darren J. N. Middleton, eds., Approaching Silence: New Perspectives on Shusaku Endo’s Classic Novel and Mark B. Williams, Endo Shusaku: A Literature of Reconciliation
10. Blake I. Campbell / Philip Ryken, The Messiah Comes to Middle Earth: Images of Christ’s Threefold Office in the Lord of the Rings