1st Edition
Heresy and Borders in the Twentieth Century
Introduction
Karina Jakubowicz & Robert Dickins
1 The Concrescence of Dissent: Whitehead as Religious, Scientific, Philosophic Heretic
Peter Sjöstedt-H
2 Edward Carpenter and Early Modernist Heresy
Henry Mead
3 Christian Occultism: Charles Williams and the Erosion of Heresy
Aren Roukema
4 ‘Spilt Religion’: Heresy in Classical Modernism
Christos Hadjiyiannis
5 Heresy in Paradise: Literary Modernism and the Genesis Myth
Karina Jakubowicz
6 Experimental Heresies: LSD and Christianity in Britain
Robert Dickins
7 The Tyranny of Cool: Orthodoxy, Heresy, and the 1960s Counterculture
Guy Stevenson
8 Immanent Eschaton: Discordian and Deleuzian Dissimulations of the Goddess
Benjamin J. Austin
9 Representations of Ritual in Twentieth Century Concert Dance
Moe Dodson
10 Blasphemy, Heresy and Liberalism in late Twentieth Century Britain
Piers Benn
Afterword
Gregory Erickson and Suzanne Hobson
Biography
Karina Jakubowicz is an adjunct professor at Florida State University, Tallahassee, and Fordham University, New York. She specialises in twentieth century literature and culture and has published widely on modernist writers including Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield.
Robert Dickins, PhD, is a historian and publisher. He undertook his PhD at Queen Mary, University of London and is the founding editor of the Psychedelic Press (2008–present). He is also on the steering committee of the biennial conference and charity Breaking Convention (2013–present). His research interests focus on the social and cultural history of psychedelic substances, and the role of writing in spiritual and magical traditions during the nineteenth century.
