...In the new geo-political circumstances that developed in the aftermath of the collapse of the USSR, and in particular the new prominence of a widely perceived antagonism between Islam and ‘the West’, conversion has once again taken a central role. The much vaunted ‘religious turn’ in early modern...

... as the uniquely material and affective observance of incremental time. After a brief discussion of the book’s relevance to recent critiques of the secularization thesis and to recent scholarship on the religious turn, the introduction closes with a brief summary of each of the book’s six chapters and with some...

...-secular–religious turn as it relates to the contested nature of religious ideas. It argues that his religious turn marginalizes the centrality of spirituality, emotion, and tradition to religion, and fails to recognize the link between religion and the secular. It then notes Habermas's inattentiveness...

..., and the religious turn in literary studies in order to explore the intersections between devotional practice and the condition of modernity. What defines Victorian devotional literature is the experience of its time signatures, the structures of feeling associated with its reading durations. In order to make a case...

... of the saints at a site long thought to be absent of sainthood: the theatre. Building on nearly three decades of important and innovative work since the religious turn in early modern studies, the introduction proposes that early modern theatre was not, in fact, vexed by religion but rather that early modern...