Modern and Contemporary Literature and Religion

Partial Bibliography

This section is still being developed.

Ahmed, Rehana, Peter Morey, and Amina Yaqin, eds. Culture, Diaspora, and Modernity in Muslim Writing. New York: Routledge, 2012.

Bourget, Carine. The Star, the Cross, and the Crescent: Religions and Conflicts in Francophone Literature from the Arab World. Lanham, MD: Lexington, 2012.

Clements, James. Mysticism and the Mid-Century Novel. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012.

Coleman, James W. Faithful Vision: Treatments of the Sacred, Spiritual, and Supernatural in Twentieth-Century African American Fiction. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 2005. 

DelRosso Jeana. Writing Catholic Women: Contemporary International Catholic Girlhood Narratives. New York, Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.

Dudley, Jack. The New Believers: Religion and the Contemporary Novel. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2026.

Haddox, Thomas F. Hard Sayings: The Rhetoric of Christian Orthodoxy in Late Modern Fiction. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 2020.

Hobson, Suzanne. Unbelief in Interwar Literary Culture: Doubting Moderns. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.

Jones, Norman. Provincializing the Bible: Faulkner and Postsecular American Literature. New York: Routledge, 2018.

King, Jeannette. Women and the Word: Contemporary Women Novelists and the Bible. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2000.

Morey, Peter. Islamophobia and the Novel. New York: Columbia University Press, 2018.

Pesso-Miquel, Catherine. Burning Books: Negotiations Between Fundamentalism and Literature. New York: AMS Press, 2012.

Ratti, Manav. The Postsecular Imagination: Postcolonialism, Religion, and Literature. New York: Routledge, 2013.

Rigney, Barbara Hill. Lilith’s Daughters: Women and Religion in Contemporary Fiction. Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 1982.

O’Connor, Leo F. Religion in the American Novel: The Search for Belief, 1860-1920. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1984.

Sen, Asha. Postcolonial Yearning: Reshaping Spiritual and Secular Discourses in Contemporary Literature. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2013.

Wallace, Cynthia. Of Women Borne: A Literary Ethics of Suffering. New York: Columbia University Press, 2017.

Winsbro, Bonnie C. Supernatural Forces: Belief, Difference, and Power in Contemporary Works by Ethnic Women. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press, 1993.