How to Use This Guide
This guide was developed with Dr. Lori Branch at the University of Iowa, to assist those in the field of English to understand and interact with Religion, Secularism, and Postsecularism ideas. The resources collected here are but a sampling of the works available. Many of the authors have numerous other works important to the study. The intent of the guide is to be a strong start to researching the fundamental ideas of postsecular studies. Please note that most descriptions come from the works themselves, with some notes proceeding on the value of individual essays within collections where pertinent to Iowa researchers and instructors.
Contact Information for This Guide
Created by Angela Weiss, Librarian
I am a graduate student in the School of Library and Information Science at Iowa with interests in Religion, Secularism, Postsecularism, and Literature.
Maintained and hosted by the English and American Literature Librarian, University of Iowa Libraries.
Religion, Secularism, and Postsecularism-
Why and how do Religion and Secularism impact English Studies today?
To understand the writings of the past and the progression of ideologies as varied as colonialism, gender, racial, and class, we must understand the religious and secular ideologies underpinning these ideas. Readings and histories that interrogate the shifts between singular belief systems into the splintered groupings of ideas that lead to the foundations of secular belief have shed new light on what and how we see religion in the literature of the modern centuries.
Lori Peterson Branch