Daniel Boscaljon is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Iowa. He has doctorates in Religious Studies, focusing on secularism and modern religious thought, and in English, focusing on nineteenth-century American literature. He is the author of 'Vigilant Faith: Passionate Agnosticism in a Secular World' (2013) and editor of 'Resisting the Place of Belonging' (2013).

• Biographical Information for ContributorsIntroduction: The Value of Cultivating Longing in a Secularized World -Daniel BoscaljonPart 1: Relating Hope and Utopia1 Utopia and Narrative: Theology between the Boundaries of Overhumanization and Hypertheism -Verna Ehret2 Hope, Hatred, and the Ambiguities of Utopic Longing -Diana Fritz Cates3 What Means Utopia to Us? Reconsidering More's Message -Marybeth Baggett4 Desiring Utopian Subjects: Collectivity and Its Discontents -Holly WhitePart 2: Historical and Literary Utopian Visions5 John Calvin, Geneva, and Godly Patriarchs: Hope and Reality in the Creation of a Christian Utopia -Ezra L. Plank6 Fruit, Fossils, Footprints: Cathecting Utopia in the Work of Miyazawa Kenji -Melissa Anne-Marie Curley7 Walter Kerr's Utopia of Re-Creation -Benjamin K. Hunnicutt8 Reframed Hope: Transcendent Technology and Spiraling Subjectivity in Dystopian Cinema -Everett HamnerPart 3: The Hope for Atheism as a Religious Utopia9 Who We Are Is God's Dying: The Real Presence of God's Absence in Bonhoeffer's Prison Poems -Steven Schroeder10 TechnoTopia: The Convergence of Art and Technology in the Twentieth Century and Beyond -J. Sage Elwell11 The Coming Community: Agamben, Benjamin, and the Hope for a Materialist-Messianic Redemption of the Present -W. David Hall12 No-Places for Sacred Communities: Hope and the Failure of Fight Club -Daniel Boscaljon

Daniel Boscaljon is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Iowa. He has doctorates in Religious Studies, focusing on secularism and modern religious thought, and in English, focusing on nineteenth-century American literature. He is the author of 'Vigilant Faith: Passionate Agnosticism in a Secular World' (2013) and editor of 'Resisting the Place of Belonging' (2013).

• Biographical Information for ContributorsIntroduction: The Value of Cultivating Longing in a Secularized World -Daniel BoscaljonPart 1: Relating Hope and Utopia1 Utopia and Narrative: Theology between the Boundaries of Overhumanization and Hypertheism -Verna Ehret2 Hope, Hatred, and the Ambiguities of Utopic Longing -Diana Fritz Cates3 What Means Utopia to Us? Reconsidering More's Message -Marybeth Baggett4 Desiring Utopian Subjects: Collectivity and Its Discontents -Holly WhitePart 2: Historical and Literary Utopian Visions5 John Calvin, Geneva, and Godly Patriarchs: Hope and Reality in the Creation of a Christian Utopia -Ezra L. Plank6 Fruit, Fossils, Footprints: Cathecting Utopia in the Work of Miyazawa Kenji -Melissa Anne-Marie Curley7 Walter Kerr's Utopia of Re-Creation -Benjamin K. Hunnicutt8 Reframed Hope: Transcendent Technology and Spiraling Subjectivity in Dystopian Cinema -Everett HamnerPart 3: The Hope for Atheism as a Religious Utopia9 Who We Are Is God's Dying: The Real Presence of God's Absence in Bonhoeffer's Prison Poems -Steven Schroeder10 TechnoTopia: The Convergence of Art and Technology in the Twentieth Century and Beyond -J. Sage Elwell11 The Coming Community: Agamben, Benjamin, and the Hope for a Materialist-Messianic Redemption of the Present -W. David Hall12 No-Places for Sacred Communities: Hope and the Failure of Fight Club -Daniel Boscaljon

Daniel Boscaljon is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Iowa. He has doctorates in Religious Studies, focusing on secularism and modern religious thought, and in English, focusing on nineteenth-century American literature. He is the author of 'Vigilant Faith: Passionate Agnosticism in a Secular World' (2013) and editor of 'Resisting the Place of Belonging' (2013).

• Biographical Information for ContributorsIntroduction: The Value of Cultivating Longing in a Secularized World -Daniel BoscaljonPart 1: Relating Hope and Utopia1 Utopia and Narrative: Theology between the Boundaries of Overhumanization and Hypertheism -Verna Ehret2 Hope, Hatred, and the Ambiguities of Utopic Longing -Diana Fritz Cates3 What Means Utopia to Us? Reconsidering More's Message -Marybeth Baggett4 Desiring Utopian Subjects: Collectivity and Its Discontents -Holly WhitePart 2: Historical and Literary Utopian Visions5 John Calvin, Geneva, and Godly Patriarchs: Hope and Reality in the Creation of a Christian Utopia -Ezra L. Plank6 Fruit, Fossils, Footprints: Cathecting Utopia in the Work of Miyazawa Kenji -Melissa Anne-Marie Curley7 Walter Kerr's Utopia of Re-Creation -Benjamin K. Hunnicutt8 Reframed Hope: Transcendent Technology and Spiraling Subjectivity in Dystopian Cinema -Everett HamnerPart 3: The Hope for Atheism as a Religious Utopia9 Who We Are Is God's Dying: The Real Presence of God's Absence in Bonhoeffer's Prison Poems -Steven Schroeder10 TechnoTopia: The Convergence of Art and Technology in the Twentieth Century and Beyond -J. Sage Elwell11 The Coming Community: Agamben, Benjamin, and the Hope for a Materialist-Messianic Redemption of the Present -W. David Hall12 No-Places for Sacred Communities: Hope and the Failure of Fight Club -Daniel Boscaljon