Religious Narratives in Contemporary Culture

Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru, Ph.D. (2000), is Associate Professor of English at the University of Bucharest. She has published articles and monographs on postmodernism and postcolonialism, including Performance and Performativity in Contemporary Indian Fiction in English (Brill | Rodopi, 2015).Dragoș Manea, Ph.D. (2018), is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Bucharest. His work lies at the intersection of adaptation and cultural memory studies, and includes Literature and Cultural Memory (co-edited with Mihaela Irimia and Andreea Paris, Brill, 2017).Contributors are: Maria-Alina Asavei, Sonia Caputa, Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru, Marcel Inhoff, Anthony Miccoli, Dragoș Manea, Andrei Nae, Mihaela Precup, Olga V. Solovieva.

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• List of FiguresNotes on ContributorsIntroductionMaria-Sabina Draga Alexandru and Dragoș ManeaPART 1Negotiations between the Spiritual and the Secular1 Going Boldly Where Few Have Gone BeforeScience, Religion and Life-Writing in the Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop and Tracy K. SmithMarcel Inhoff2 Roman Catholic Religion and Folk Religiosity in the Fiction of Contemporary American Writers of Polish DescentAn Analysis of Selected Works by Stuart DybekSonia Caputa3 “A Secular Mind Searching for Its Lost Love” Mourning, Religion, and the Return of the Dead in Meghan O’Rourke’s The Long GoodbyeMihaela PrecupPART 2Oppression and Resistance4 Cultural Memory and Political Resistance through Religious/Spiritual Art in (Post-) Communist RomaniaMaria-Alina Asavei5 The Rhetoric of the Body of Christ and the Pitfalls of American DemocracyOlga V. Solovieva6 Evil Nuns and Useless PriestsOn the Representation of Christianity in Contemporary Historical Fantasy Television SeriesDragoș ManeaPART 3Transmedial Religious Narratives in Unreal and Posthuman Worlds7 Algorithms of Desire Dukkha in the MachineAnthony Miccoli8 How to Fight Historical Violence Posthuman Spirituality in Cloud AtlasMaria-Sabina Draga Alexandru9 Can Artificial Humans Go to Heaven? Transhumanist Salvation in Shelley’s Frankenstein and the Hitman SeriesAndrei NaeConclusionMaria-Sabina Draga Alexandru and Dragoș ManeaBibliographyIndex