MLA 2006
The Conference on Christianity is allied with the Modern Language Association (www.mla.org) and organizes sessions each year at the MLA Annual Convention. At the December 2006 convention, CCL presented the following awards:
Lifetime achievement:
John Updike
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Book of the year:
Arthur Kirsch
Auden and Christianity
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Lionel Basney Award for the year's best article in Christianity and Literature
Scott McLaren
“Saving the Monsters? Images of Redemption in the Gothic Tales of George MacDonald”
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Members also participated in two sessions organized by CCL
Stephen H. Webb and Kathleen Verduin presided over "Faith and Doubt in the Fiction of John Updike," with the following papers:
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“Updike Reading, Updike Writing,” presented by Kathleen Verduin, of Hope College
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“Pagan Pleasures: Gertrude and Claudius and the Dawn of the New Morality,” presented by Marshall Boswell, Rhodes College
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Updike’s Villages: Nostalgia, Faith and Sex,” presented by Stephen H. Webb of Wabash College
Susan VanZanten Gallagher presided over "The Next Christendom and African Literature," with the following papers:
- "Borders, Boundaries, and Bodies: Female Circumcision and the Politics of World Christianity in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o’s The River Between," presented by Tameka L. Cage, of Bucknell University
- "The Rocks Cry Out: Muslim and Christian Writers in the 2001 Jos Crisis," by Deborah Klein, of Oklahoma Christian University
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"The Impact of Christianity on Ethiopian Literature: From Past to Present," presented by Tsegaye Wodajo of the Bronx Community College of the City University of New York
MLA 2007
MLA 2005