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An exploration of the religious contexts of Virginia Woolf's life and work, her religious practices, her ideas about God, and the new forms of community she imagined.

Explores Mary Shelley as an important religious thinker of the Romantic period. Analyzes her creative engagement with contemporary religious controversies and uncovers a belief system that was both influenced by and profoundly different from those of her male Romantic counterparts.

Examines how the religious environment around Emily Dickinson, specifically New England Protestantism, helps in understanding her poetry, and conversely how her poetry brings attention to religious aspects of her culture and surroundings.

Examines the historic and religious context surrounding the work of William Shakespeare.

Examines how the popular musician and public figure Bono represents the power of evangelicalism and promotes a religion of neoliberal capitalism.

Explores the ways in which the religious controversies and beliefs that surrounded John Donne were circulated in late Elizabethan and early Stuart England.

Explores the multiple religious influences on Billie Holiday's life and sound, combining elements of biography with the history of race and American music.