Carruthers, Jo (2011) England's Secular Scripture : Islamophobia and the Protestant Aesthetic. New Directions in Religion and Literature . Continuum, London. ISBN 9780826433213
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This book interrogates the relations between Reformation ideas of plain style, the coupling of simplicity with a hermeneutic transparency (as expressed in simple Englishness in Victorian and early twentieth-century literature), and the visceral aversion to the non-simple expressed in Islamophobia in contemporary England. Chapters: 1. The English Reformation: Spenser, Milton and the Protestant Aesthetic 2. Secularizing the Protestant Aesthetic: Wordsworth, Eliot and Hardy 3. Contemporary Englishness and the Protestant Aesthetic 4. English Dispositions and Islamophobia