Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures viii
4. Acknowledgements ix
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I: Key Figures and Movements
7. 1 Ezra Pound versus T. S. Eliot on Christianity, Apocalypse and Myth, 1934–1945 19
8. 2 Virginia Woolf and Christianity 35
9. 3 H.D. and Spirituality 50
10. 4 D. H. Lawrence’s Dark God 67
11. 5 Harlem’s Bible Stories: Christianity and the New Negro Movement 81
12. 6 The Jewish East End and Modernism 100
13. Part II: Secularity, Disenchantment, Re-enchantment
14. 7 Troubled: Reverse Theodicy in Ward, Eliot and Baldwin 121
15. 8 Modernism, Secular Hope and the Posthumous Trace 137
16. 9 C. K. Ogden, I. A. Richards and ‘Word Magic’: Rethinking the Relation of Language to Myth 151
17. 10 Jean Toomer and the Face of the Real: Between Sacred Presence and Disenchanting Violence 166
18. 11 Modernism and Political Theology 180
19. Part III: Religious Forms
20. 12 Virginia Woolf’s Agnostic, Visionary Mysticism: Approaching and Retreating from the Sacred 197
21. 13 Modernism, Abstraction and Spirituality: Barbara Hepworth and Hilma af Klint 213
22. 14 Modernism and the Hymn 233
23. 15 William James, Mysticism and the Modernist Epiphany 250
24. Part IV: Myth, Folklore and Magic
25. 16 Modernist Mythopoeia 267
26. 17 Yeats’s Sacred Grove 285
27. 18 The Modernist Grail Quest 299
28. 19 The Burial of the Dead in Mann’s The Magic Mountain 315
29. Part V: Modern Esotericism, Pantheism and Spiritualism
30. 20 The Modernist Afterlives of Theosophy 329
31. 21 Rebecca West, Modern Spiritualism and the Problem of Other Minds 343
32. 22 ‘What God hath joined, let no pragmatist put asunder’: May Sinclair’s Philosophical Idealism as Surrogate Religion 358
33. Part VI: Religious Space, Time and Ritual Practice
34. 23 Sacred Ground: Orthodoxy, Poetry and Religious Change 373
35. 24 Liminal Spaces and Spiritual Practice in Naomi Mitchison, Keri Hulme and Lorna Goodison 389
36. 25 Finnegans Wake, Modernist Time Machines and Re-enchanted Time 404
37. Part VII: Global Transitions and Exchange
38. 26 Global Seekers in The Quest: A Case Study of an Occult Periodical’s Worldly Religion 423
39. 27 ‘A Miserable Attenuation’: T. S. Eliot, Rabindranath Tagore and Irving Babbitt 441
40. 28 ‘Part heathen, part Christian’: Recording Transitions and Amalgamations of Belief Systems in Constantine Cavafy’s Poetry 457
41. Part VIII: Queer[y]ing Religion
42. 29 ‘It was really rather fine to be suffering’: Radclyffe Hall at the Queer Intersection of Masochism and Martyrdom 479
43. 30 The Byzantine Modernism of Djuna Barnes 494
44. 31 ‘Mixed sex cases among goats’: The Modernist Sublime 509
45. Contributor Biographies 523
46. Index 530