nam 22 uu 4500 duepublico_mods_00000218 duepublico_mods_00000218 ger DE-601 rda ger 800 sdnb Milota, Megan Author aut “Where do you put Jesus in your thinking?” Negotiating Belief in Book Clubs Milota, Megan text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier This essay will explore the ways in which a literary author’s explicit encoding of belief impacts narrative interest. Borrowing analytical tools from the fields of narrative theory and pragmatic theology, this essay will analyze recorded book club discussions of Louise Erdrich’s novel Last Report on the Miracles at Little No Horse (2001). In particular, it will focus on the ways participants negotiated three themes they deemed contentious and ethically problematic in the novel: the descriptions of gender as performative and porous, saintliness or hagiography, and the promotion of hybrid religious practices. This content analysis of participants’ negotiations of the novel’s themes will help elucidate some of the ways in which literary discussion can provide a space for individuals to articulate and refine their personal beliefs. article Fakultät für Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften DIEGESIS Jg. 7 (2018) H. 2 host institution his 7:2<47 Fakultät für Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften, DIEGESIS Diegesis 2195-2116 duepublico_mods_00000079 https://elpub.bib.uni-wuppertal.de/receive/duepublico_mods_00000218 object in context https://elpub.bib.uni-wuppertal.de/servlets/MCRFileNodeServlet/duepublico_derivate_00000599/dej18070203.pdf raw object https://elpub.bib.uni-wuppertal.de/rsc/thumbnail/duepublico_mods_00000218.png preview https://elpub.bib.uni-wuppertal.de/receive/duepublico_mods_00000218 uri