Constance M. Furey is professor of religious studies at Indiana University Bloomington. She is the author of Erasmus, Contarini, and the Religious Republic of Letters and Poetic Relations. Sarah Hammerschlag is professor of religion and literature in the Divinity School at the University of Chicago. She is the author of The Figural Jew and Broken Tablets. Amy Hollywood is Elizabeth H. Monrad Chair of Christian Studies at the Harvard Divinity School. She is the author of The Soul as Virgin Wife, Sensible Ecstasy, and Acute Melancholia and Other Essays.

• IntroductionAmy Hollywood, Sarah Hammerschlag, and Constance M. FureyVivifying Poetry: Sidney, Luther, and the PsalmsConstance M. FureyA Poor Substitute for Prayer: Sarah Kofman and the Fetish of WritingSarah HammerschlagDystopia, Utopia, AtopiaAmy HollywoodAfterwards

“In Devotion, the authors probe the limits of knowledge and knowability in a way that does not devolve into a hermeneutics of suspicion. In an age of the collapse of shared narrative and con­spiracy theories ripping at coexistence, this approach might appear politically dangerous. But Devotion instead seeks to turn our inquisitive imaginaries into a way to supplement democracy . . . With its faith in literature, politics, and religion, and the imagination that they require and fuel, Devotion is a promise well kept.”