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In this article, I investigate the literary representation of the religious convictions and political strategy of neo-Nazi ideologues who are influential in rightwing authoritarian movements in the USA today. The reason that I do this is because in contemporary fascism, the novel has replaced the political manifesto, the military manual and proselytizing testimony, since fiction can evade censorship and avoid prosecution. I read William Luther Pierce's Turner Diaries and Hunter together with his text on speculative metaphysics and religious belief, Cosmotheism. Then, I turn to Harold Covington's Northwestern Quintet with The Brigade, reading this with Christian Identity and his own conception of Nazi religious tolerance. Finally, I look at OT Gunnarsson's Hear the Cradle Song, reading this together with discussions of racism in Californian Odinism. I propose that what this literature shows is that the doctrinal differences between the three main strands of neo-Nazi religion—Cosmotheism, Christian Identity and Odinism—are less significant than their common ideological functions. These are twofold: (1) the sacralization of violence and (2) the sanctification of elites. The dystopian fictions of fascist literature present civil war scenarios whose white nationalist and genocidal outcome is the result of what are, strictly speaking, supremacist death cults.

On the occasion of the publication of Fernando Savater's book on eternal life, the article sets out many issues concerning how to treat religion rationally. According to Savater, the basis for religious belief is the human wish for eternal life. The article evaluates the coherence of this argumentation and its religious relevance. It also asks about truth and the role which religion should play. An analysis is made of the absence in Savater's thought of major distinctions between religion and politics, and the difficulties to which these omissions give rise. ; Con ocasión del libro de F. Savater sobre la vida eterna, el artículo plantea diversas cuestiones acerca de cómo tratar racionalmente la religión. Según Savater, el fundamento de las creencias religiosas es el deseo humano de la vida eterna. El artículo evalúa la coherencia de la argumentación y su relevancia religiosa. Se pregunta también por la verdad y por el papel que debe jugar la religión. Se analiza la ausencia en el pensamiento de Savater de distinciones relevantes entre religión y política y las dificultades que comportan estas omisiones.

Literature, religion und Theorie : Einleitung / Gernot Weiss -- Realisation, nicht bloss : Poetisches "Reden über Religion" : Eine Erinnerung an Dorothee Sölle und zwei Gedichte Annette von Droste-Hülshoffs / Wolfgang Braungart -- Zwischen Literatur, Philosophie und Religion : Friedrich Schlegels Schrift Über die Unverständlichkeit / Helmut Hühn -- Göttliche Worte, göttliche Inschriften : Kosmische Übertragungsmedien in Religion und moderner Literatur / Linda Simonis -- Iocus : Recherchen zur Darstellung des Heiligen im komischen Spiel / Hans Jürgen Scheuer -- (Post-)Jüdische Literature vom späten 19. bis zum frühen 21. Jahrhundert : Einleitung / Manfred Voigts -- Aneignung des Enteigneten : der jüdische Jesusroman 1895-2014 / Martin Leutzsch -- Spuren von "Religion" in Franz Kafkas Werk? : zu verschiedenen Lektüren des Process-Fragmentes / Josef P. Mautner -- Auf der Suche nach dem verlorenen Gott : Religiöse Fragen in der deutsch-judischen Lyrik des 20. Jahrhunderts / Eva Lezzi -- (Post-)Christliche literature im "langen" 19. Jahrhundert : Einleitung / Thomas Pittrof -- Erzählungen von Ende und Wiederkehr der Religion : Literatur- und Religionsverstandnisse im nordischen Realismus / Dirk Johannsen -- "Das erste moderne Christusdrama der deutschen Literatur" : Albert Dulks Jesus der Christ (1855/65) und sein Kontext / Andrea Polaschegg -- Narrativität, Figur und Kult : die biblische Salome als intertextuelles und performatives Ereignis / Ulrike Brunotte -- Totengespräche : der Spiritismus im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert / Hans Richard Brittnacher -- Religion und Literature in populären Medien : Diversifizierung und Pluralisierung vom frühen 19. Jahrhundert bis in de Gegenwart : Einleitung / Alexandra Grieser -- Vom Weiterleben der Toten und dem Sinn des Opfers : literarischer Jünglings- und Kriegerkult des 19. und 20. Jahrhunderts / Justus H. Ulbricht -- Gottes-Narrative im Medium Comic : zur Religionsrezeption, Religionsproduktion und Religionsreflexion in Marc-Antoine Mathieus Dieu en personne / Jürgen Mohn -- Intertextuelle und intermediale Bezüge im Black Metal : Schlaglichter auf Ausprägungen einer "Black Metal-Religion" / Dominik Ghonghadze -- Liturgie des Populären : ein Versuch über Helene Fischer / Ralf Georg Czapla

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: A New Theory of the Sacred -- 1 The Boiled-Over District: Effervescence and Adaptation during the Market Revolution -- 2 The Salvific Power of Affect: Sentimentalism in the Labor Fiction of Rebecca Harding Davis and Elizabeth Stuart Phelps -- 3 The American Fetish: Religious Economics in the Novels of William Dean Howells -- 4 Mistaking "Shadows for Gods": Class and the Christ Novel in the Progressive Era -- 5 "Christianity Incorporated": Sinclair Lewis and the Taylorization of American Protestantism -- 6 ­Gastonia Revisited: Religion, Literature, and the Loray Mill Strike of 1929 -- 7 "The Blackness of God": Race and Religion in the Literature of the Harlem Renaissance -- Works Cited -- Index.

Chronology -- Introduction, Susan M. Felch -- I. Reading Practices 1. Theological Reading, Rowan Williams 2. Confessional Reading, James Matthew Wilson 3. Postsecular Reading, Zhange Ni -- II. Intersections 4. Ethics, Susan M. Felch 5. Dwelling, Julia Reinhard Lupton 6. Imagination, Matthew Potts 7. Sacrifice, Michon M. Matthiesen 8. Repetition, Susannah Monta -- III. Faith Traditions 9. Hinduism, Cleo Kearns 10. Buddhism, Richard K. Payne 11. Judaism, Susan Handelman 12. Eastern Orthodoxy, Lori Branch and Ioana Patuleanu 13. Roman Catholicism, Paul J. Contino 14. Islam, Mustansir Mir 15. Protestantism, Willie James Jennings 16. World Christianity, Susan VanZanten

The book showcases the diversity and depth of research that is currently taking place on the African continent in literature and religion. Taking a gendered perspective oral literature is examined as a "vehicle for gender studies in East Africa" (F.E.M.K. Senkoro); Elizabeth le Roux reflects on "Imaginary Evidence: Finding the Non-Dit in Fiction"; Isaac Ssetuba makes an "An Appraisal of the Ganda Proverb in Modern Gender Relations" (Uganda); Mildred A.J. Ndeda gives "A Gender Analysis of the Dynamics of an African Independent Church Among the Luo of Siaya District" (Kenia); and George Nyamndi explore women's personalities in the work of Elechi Amadi. (DÜI-Sbd)