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kw52j675874	Craig Bradshaw Woelfel	Varieties of Aesthetic Experience: Religious Experience and Literary Modernism	2011		.txt	text/plain	355	8	20	As a pair of test cases, I look at the impact of the study of religious experience and Eastern religions on the art and aesthetics of T. S. Eliot and E. M. Forster, focusing on their work from the early to late 1920's. Rather than seeing religion and secularity as mutually exclusive viewpoints in modernity Ì¢ âÂ' or, conversely, as possibly obtaining some kind of accomodationist relationship - I use Charles Taylor's conception of 'cross-pressures' from A Secular Age (2007), along with contemporary discourse surrounding the study of religious experience, as context through which to read modernist literature as a site of what I call dissociated belief: a fragmentary exploration of transcendent experience situated within a secular and skeptical background of understanding, and pressured equally by stances against orthodox religiosity or mystical epistemologies and against totally immanent or rational accounts of being, knowing, and art.	cache/kw52j675874.txt	txt/kw52j675874.txt