Divinity, Hospitality and the Posthuman in 21st-Century Literature

Emily McAvan is a Teaching Associate, Monash University, Australia, and a specialist in the study of religion and literature. Her most recent work Jeanette Winterson and Religion (Bloomsbury, 2020) is the first study of the sacred and profane in Winterson’s work. Her articles on religion and literature have been published by Literature and Theology, among many others.

Introduction
Chapter 1. Introduction to 21st Century Postsecular Fiction

Section One – God and the Postsecular
Chapter 2. Strout and the Idea of God
Chapter 3. Robinson and Immanent Faith
Chapter 4. Chabon and the Messianic after the Death of God

Section Two – Hospitality and the Postsecular
Chapter 4. Rushdie and Religious Terror
Chapter 5. Hamid and Interreligious Hospitality
Chapter 6. Jacobson and Antisemitism in the Multicultural State

Section Three – The Postsecular and the Non-Human
Chapter 7. DeLillo’s Posthuman Faith
Chapter 8. Atwood’s Ecotheology

Conclusion
Bibliography
Index