Religion without Belief

Religion without BeliefShows there is a strong religious impulse in postmodern literature and film. In our present cultural moment, when God is supposed to be dead and metaphysical speculation unfashionable, why does postmodern fiction in a variety of genres make such frequent use of the ancient rhetorical form of allegory? In Religion without Belief, Jean Ellen Petrolle argues that contrary to popular understandings of postmodernism as an irreligious and amoral climate,

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