‘Modernism and Religion’ argues that modernism participated in broader processes of religious change in the twentieth century. The new prominence accorded to immanence and immediacy in religious discourse is carried over into the modernist epiphany. Modernism became mystical. The emergence of Catholic theological modernism, human rights, Christian…[Read more]

The paper connects the poet and artist David Jones and the Roman Catholic artisanal community at Ditchling, Sussex, and Dorothy Day and the Catholic Worker organisation in and around New York. Day learned about Ditchling through volumes published by the British Roman Catholic publisher Sheed & Ward, which had responded to the emergence of an…[Read more]

This is lesson plan for a seminar that forms part of a course on modernism. It draws on Jamie Callison’s monograph ‘Modernism and Religion’ and T. S. Eliot’s ‘Little Gidding’. It uses the rise of silent retreats as a form of religious practice to explore the challenges of the modernist city and the way in which these challenges contributed to…[Read more]

This is a lesson plan for a seminar that forms part of a modernism course. It draws on Jamie Callison’s monograph ‘Modernism and Religion’, T. S. Eliot’s essay ‘Religion and Literature’ and David Jones’s poem ‘In Parenthesis’. It explores changing notions of religious poetry as a way of understanding broader processes of religious change in the…[Read more]

This lesson plan for a seminar within a modernism course explores the complicated interactions between religious concerns and the literary epiphany. It makes use of Jamie Callison’s monograph ‘Modernism and Religion’ and poetry from early and late in H.D.’s career.

This lesson plan for a literature and religion class draws on Jamie Callison’s monograph ‘Modernism and Religion’, H.D.’s poem ‘Helen in Egypt’ and David Jones’s poem ‘The Grail Mass’ to explore key features of a secular outlook and the challenge modernist poetry posed for it..