"Scripture quoatations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible."--T.p. verso.
Introduction / by Roger Lundin
Finding a prose for God: religion and American fiction / Denis Donoghue
American literature and/as spiritual inquiry / Lawrence Buell
Variety as religious experience: the poetics of the plain style / Elisa New
Keeping the metaphors alive: American poetry and transformation / Barbara Packer
Genres of redemption: African Americans, the Bible, and slavery from Lemuel Haynes to Frederick Douglass / Mark A. Noll
Balm in Gilead: memory, mourning, and healing in African American autobiography / Albert J. Raboteau
The race for faith: justice, mercy, and the sign of the cross in African American literature / Katherine Clay Bassard
Forms of redemption / John Stauffer
Hamlet without the prince: the role of religion in postwar nonfiction / Alan Wolfe
"The only permanent state": belief and the culture of incredulity / Andrew Delbanco
How the church became invisible: a Christian reading of American literary tradition / Stanley Hauerwas and Ralph C. Wood
"The play of the Lord": on the limits of critique / Roger Lundin.
Invisible conversations : religion in the literature of America. ISBN 9781602581470. Published by Baylor University Press in 2009. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.