Contributor
Stratman, Jacob, editor.
ImprintJefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2018]
Descriptionviii, 234 pages ; 23 cm
Note:Young adult literature and the postsecular novel / Jacob Stratman -- Postsecular young adult literature : or, Harry Potter and the new religious landscape / Paul T. Corrigan -- Fantasy as realism : N. D. Wilson and the influence of mythology / Jeremy Larson -- A ninja, a nun and a knight : Christianity and narrative mischief in Brian Meehl's You don't know about me, Suck it up and Suck it up and die / Carrie Myers -- The book worlds of Nikki Grimes : an invitation to dialogic reading / Susan Leigh Brooks -- Young adult fiction, diaspora and the "Muslim" question : a study on faith and feminism in Randa Abdel-Fattah's novels / Fatema Johera Ahmed -- The customized religion : moralistic therapeutic deism, American teenagers and Pete Hautman's Godless / Jacob Stratman -- Learning how to be Jewish in the truth about my Bat Mitzvah and confessions of a closet Catholic / Patricia F. D'Ascoli -- "Stick up for these crazy stupid things": Emily Horner's queer Quaker road trip novel / Katelyn R. Browne -- Performing God : Kiran and Krishna in Rakesh Satyal's Blue boy / Rizia Begum Laskar -- The way of the fantasist : ethical complexities in the Taoist mythopoeic fantasy of Ursula Le Guin's A wizard of Earthsea / David S. Hogsette -- The language of magic and prayer : intercession in the works of Merrie Haskell / Erin Wyble Newcomb -- Postsecular cosplay, fundamentalism and martyrdom in Gene Luen Yang's Boxers & saints / Carissa Turner Smith -- Sight, blindness and identity in Gene Luen Yang's American born Chinese and Boxers & saints / Shih-Wen Sue Chen.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:"How are the religious experiences of teenagers expressed in today's young adult literature? How does YA fiction place itself in the larger conversation regarding the post secular? This collection of new essays explores these questions and more, with a focus on stories in which characters respond to a new religious landscape, in both realistic and fantastic worlds"-- Provided by publisher.
