The Edinburgh Companion to Modernism, Myth and Religion

Presents authoritative analyses of the religious terrain of the modernist period Presents authoritative scholarly analyses of the religious terrain of the modernist period Includes 30 + specially commissioned chapters on modernist myth, religion and alternative spirituality representing the breadth and freshness of research in this area Foregrounds early-career scholars as well as internationally recognized researchers who have illuminated the field of modernist discourse around religion and myth Responds to and builds upon a renewed scholarly fascination with modernist experiment, religious history, and theology a field of interest which has energized the humanities, especially in literary and cultural studies Highlights the interconnections between spirituality, aesthetics, and politics in this period Until fairly recently, the 'Authorised Version' of cultural modernism stated that the secularising trends of liberal modernity and the resultant emphasis on irony, parody and