Jeanette Winterson and Religion

Emily McAvan is Sessional Tutor at Monash University, Australia. She is the author of The Postmodern Sacred (2012).

• 1. Introduction2. ‘I Love Both of Them’: Queer Love and the Religious in Oranges are not the Only Fruit 3. ‘Colours and Folly’: Retelling the Noah Story in Boating For Beginners4. The Love Event in The Passion5. Sexing the Cherry and the Monstrous Maternal6. Written on the Body and the Negative Theology Tradition7. Art & Lies: Literature in a Neoliberal Age8. Gut Symmetries, New Physics and Kabbalah9. The PowerBook and Virtual Culture10.Lighthousekeeping and the Religious Vocation11.The Stone Gods’ Climate Change Apocalypse12. Conclusion

McAvan’s text does not disappoint in the insights it offers. As well as creating a thorough and informative study of Winterson’s major works, McAvan also succeeds in her overall aim – to establish that, with a reappearance of the divine in the secular cultural space of postmodernism, Winterson creates an art of major import through a “return of the sacred in the post-secular world” (170).