Geert Lernout is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, and Director of the James Joyce Centre. He has published The French Joyce (1990) and Iets Anders: De GoldBerg-Varieties van Bach (2001).

Lernout meticulously pinpoints and researches minor references to religion in Joyce's oeuvre, providing an index of ideas that will undoubtedly be an excellent resource for scholars seeking an explanation for religious allusions which have hitherto been overlooked or unexplained, particularly in Joyce's early work... This is a vast, informative work that will be useful both to new readers and experienced Joyceans alike.

• Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Joyce and the church according to the critics 2. The Holy Roman Apostolic Church 3. Heresy, Schisma and Dissent 4. Joyce's own crisis of belief 5. Loss of religion in retrospect: from Epiphanies to Exiles 6. You behold in me a horrible example of freethought 7. Free money, free rent, free love and a free lay church in a free lay state 8. After Ulysses Conclusion Select Bibliography Index

Geert Lernout is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, and Director of the James Joyce Centre. He has published The French Joyce (1990) and Iets Anders: De GoldBerg-Varieties van Bach (2001).

Lernout meticulously pinpoints and researches minor references to religion in Joyce's oeuvre, providing an index of ideas that will undoubtedly be an excellent resource for scholars seeking an explanation for religious allusions which have hitherto been overlooked or unexplained, particularly in Joyce's early work... This is a vast, informative work that will be useful both to new readers and experienced Joyceans alike.

• Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Joyce and the church according to the critics 2. The Holy Roman Apostolic Church 3. Heresy, Schisma and Dissent 4. Joyce's own crisis of belief 5. Loss of religion in retrospect: from Epiphanies to Exiles 6. You behold in me a horrible example of freethought 7. Free money, free rent, free love and a free lay church in a free lay state 8. After Ulysses Conclusion Select Bibliography Index

Geert Lernout is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, and Director of the James Joyce Centre. He has published The French Joyce (1990) and Iets Anders: De GoldBerg-Varieties van Bach (2001).

Lernout meticulously pinpoints and researches minor references to religion in Joyce's oeuvre, providing an index of ideas that will undoubtedly be an excellent resource for scholars seeking an explanation for religious allusions which have hitherto been overlooked or unexplained, particularly in Joyce's early work... This is a vast, informative work that will be useful both to new readers and experienced Joyceans alike.

• Acknowledgements List of Abbreviations Introduction 1. Joyce and the church according to the critics 2. The Holy Roman Apostolic Church 3. Heresy, Schisma and Dissent 4. Joyce's own crisis of belief 5. Loss of religion in retrospect: from Epiphanies to Exiles 6. You behold in me a horrible example of freethought 7. Free money, free rent, free love and a free lay church in a free lay state 8. After Ulysses Conclusion Select Bibliography Index