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Christianity & Literature, 2009, Vol.59 (1), p.154-157
2009

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Modes of Faith: Secular Surrogates for Lost Religious Belief by Theodore Ziolkowski (review)
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  • Christianity & Literature, 2009, Vol.59 (1), p.154-157
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Malibu: Johns Hopkins University Press
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2009
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Literature Online (LION)
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  • In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: 154 CHRISTIANITY AND LITERATURE something of interest for anyone who finds herself intrigued by the subject. The book is beautifully designed but lacks an index; since it is unlikely that anyone will sit down to read this collection from cover to cover, this omission is deeply felt (but mitigated somewhat by the search-inside-the-book concordance function available on books.google.com and Amazon.com). Once a reader has identified an article she is interested in, however, she ought to read the adjacent essays. The essays flow in subtle and graceful ways, and the logic of their organization is always thoughtful and suggestive, even sometimes sly. In this briefspace, I have been unable to gesture to the very interesting texts by Judith Butler, Samuel Weber, and Iean-Luc Nancy, nor to prominent concerns such as hermeneutics and the rights of minorities. And just as this is a foreshortened review and not a comprehensive account of the book, Political Theologies is an anthology, not an encyclopedia: there are many other scholars not represented here whose work at the intersection of Politics and Theology is worth reading. These include Alain Badiou, Etienne Balibar, Stanley Fish, Mark Lilla, Julia Lupton, Eric Santner, Kenneth Reinhard, and Slavoj Zizek, just to name a few. Mia L. McIver University of California, Irvine Modes of Faith: Secular Surrogates for Lost Religious Belief By Theodore Ziolkowski. Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2007. ISBN 0-226-98363-3. Pp. xii + 296. $35.00. While the standard theory of secularization has been questioned in many fields of the humanities and social sciences, literary studies has lagged behind this salutary movement. Peter Berger in sociology (The Desecularization of the World: Resurgent Religion and World Politics 1999); Talal Asad in anthropology (Formations of the Secular 2003); Jose Cassanova (Public Religions in the Modern World 1994) and Philip Jenkins (The Next Christendom: The Coming of Global Christianity2002) in religious studies, Charles Taylor in philosophy (A Secular Age 2007); and Mark Noll in American history (AmericasGod: From Jonathan Edwards to Abraham Lincoln 2002)-all have mounted critical challenges to the received notion that secularization is a natural social process that is paired causally with modernization. In 2006, TheHedgehog Review(8:1-2, Spring & Summer) even devoted a double issue to the phenomenon-with essays by Asad, Cassanova, Berger and othersunder the title "AfterSecularization:' This trend represents a vital movement within the academy at a time of worldwide resurgence of religions (on the one hand) and of renewed secularist arguments (on the other hand) that religion is the archenemy BOOK REVIEWS 155 of the liberal humanist project of establishing peaceful co-existence and political consensus across the globe. In the midst of these vigorous debates, at a time when the stakes could hardly be higher for delineating the relationship between religion and the secular, the field ofliterary studies has been largely silent. It is in light of this troubling lacuna that we should welcome the appearance of Theodore Ziolkowski's new book Modes ofFaith. And while the book does not offer a sweeping treatment of the cultural tangle of secularization, it does suggest some useful ways of thinking about religion and literature during the European age of the "crisis of faith:' Modes of Faith looks broadly at autobiographical writings and fictionalized self-narrations that chronicle personal loss (and sometimes renewal) of religious faith across Europe in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Ziolkowski develops for these works an anatomy of displacement composed of fivebasic forms of surrogacy available to the authors as alternatives to the fading belief of their childhoods: 1) art for art's sake; 2) the pilgrimage to India; 3) socialism; 4) myth; and 5) utopian vision. Ziolkowski locates each of the authors he studies within one of these surrogate forms, but he also suggests that the five "modes of faith" outline a loose progression of positions, each of which becomes tenable in its turn and then over time loses its ability to contain the displaced hope of religious faith. Ziolkowski is clear in his take on the viability of the modes: "in the final analysis all the surrogates turned out to be inadequate" (237), and he concludes with a chapter that...
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Englisch
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ISSN: 0148-3331
eISSN: 2056-5666
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