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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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Articles of fewer than 4,000 or more than 9,000 words, including notes, are not ordinarily considered, unless they are commissioned for a special issue or of exceptional merit. Submissions should comply with accepted guidelines for nonsexist usage.
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Mark Eaton, Editor
Christianity & Literature
Department of English
Azusa Pacific University
901 E. Alosta Ave.
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.
Only hard copies of poetry submissions are accepted. Submissions should be sent to:
Peter Cooley, Poetry Editor
Christianity & Literature
Tulane University
Department of English, Norman Mayer 122
New Orleans, LA 70118
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:
Philip Mitchell, Book Review Editor
Christianity & Literature
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Dallas Baptist University
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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 70, Issue 1 (March 2020)
Articles
1. Janna Smartt Chance, Union University
“Original Sin and Feminine Virtue in Hannah More's Coelebs in Search of a Wife”
2. Jewel Spears Brooker, Eckerd College
“T.S. Elliot in Ecstasy: Feeling, Reason, Mysticism”
3. Peter J. Comerford, independent scholar
“Redeeming the Times: Evelyn Waugh’s Sword of Honour as Sacramental Epic”
4. Scott Moncrieff, Andrews University
“’Kind of Magic Back Here’: Gardening and Human Limitations in George Saunders’s ‘The Semplica Girl Diaries’”
Poetry
C. Waldrep, "Eagle Lake, Acadia" and "Wonderland"
Catharine Savage Brosman, "Saint Dorothy" and "Saint Nicholas"
Book Reviews
1. Dante J. Clementi, Boston College
The Lily’s Tongue: Figure and Authority in Kierkegaard’s Lily Discourses. By Frances Maughan-Brown. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2019. ISBN: 978-1-4384-7633-9. Pp. xxxiii + 186. $95.00.
2. Harold K. Bush, Saint Louis University
Begin Again: James Baldwin’s America and Its Urgent Lessons for Our Own. By Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. New York: Crown, 2020. ISBN# 978-0525575320. Pp. xxix + 239. $27.00.
3. Filippo Falcone, University of Milan
Milton and the Parables of Jesus: Self-representation and the Bible in John Milton’s Writings. By David V. Urban. The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2018. ISBN 978-0-271-08505-0. Pp. xii + 316. $34.95.
4. Austin Grant Bennett, Montana State University / Billings City College
The Catholic Writer Today: And Other Essays. By Dana Gioia. Belmont, NC: Wiseblood Books, 2019. ISBN 978-1-5051-1440-9. Pp. 17-213. $25.00.
Hotly in Pursuit of the Real: Notes toward a Memoir. By Ron Hansen. Eugene, OR: Slant, 2020. ISBN 978-1-5326-9202-4. Pp. ix-183. $20.00.
5. Jeremy Larson, Regent University
Spenserian Moments. By Gordon Teskey. Cambridge: Belknap, 2019. ISBN 978-0-674-98844-6. Pp. xviii + 534. $45.00.
6. Alyssa Q. Johnson, Texas Christian University
God and the Gothic: Religion, Romance, and Reality in the English Literary Tradition. By Alison Milbank. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2018. ISBN 978-0-19-882446-6. Pp. x + 354. $95.
PREVIOUS ISSUES
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.