Heresy and Borders in the Twentieth Century

This book explores the shifting and negotiated boundaries of religion, spirituality and secular thinking in Britain and North America during the Twentieth Century.

Autorentext

Karina Jakubowicz is an adjunct professor at Florida State University, Tallahassee, and Fordham University, New York. She specialises in twentieth century literature and culture and has published widely on modernist writers including Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield.

Robert Dickins, PhD, is a historian and publisher. He undertook his PhD at Queen Mary, University of London and is the founding editor of the Psychedelic Press (2008 present). He is also on the steering committee of the biennial conference and charity Breaking Convention (2013 present). His research interests focus on the social and cultural history of psychedelic substances, and the role of writing in spiritual and magical traditions during the nineteenth century.

Inhalt

Introduction-Karina Jakubowicz & Robert Dickins; 1 The Concrescence of Dissent: Whitehead as Religious, Scientific, Philosophic Heretic-Peter Sjöstedt-H; 2 Edward Carpenter and Early Modernist Heresy-Henry Mead; 3 Christian Occultism: Charles Williams and the Erosion of Heresy-Aren Roukema; 4 'Spilt Religion': Heresy in Classical Modernism-Christos Hadjiyiannis; 5 Heresy in Paradise: Literary Modernism and the Genesis Myth-Karina Jakubowicz; 6 Experimental Heresies: LSD and Christianity in Britain-Robert Dickins; 7 The Tyranny of Cool: Orthodoxy, Heresy, and the 1960s Counterculture-Guy Stevenson; 8 Immanent Eschaton: Discordian and Deleuzian Dissimulations of the Goddess-Benjamin J. Austin; 9 Representations of Ritual in Twentieth Century Concert Dance-Moe Dodson; 10 Blasphemy, Heresy and Liberalism in late Twentieth Century Britain-Piers Benn; Afterword-Gregory Erickson and Suzanne Hobson