Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction - Jonathan A. Cook and Brian Yothers -- Faith, Doubt, Secularization: Transatlantic Contexts -- Clarel and the Victorian Crisis of Faith - Jonathan A. Cook -- "Change Irreverent": Evolution and Faith in "The Encantadas" and Clarel - Eileen McGinnis -- Faith among the Weeds: Melville's Religious Wildings beyond These Deserts - Martin Kevorkian -- Religious Communities -- Melville and the Unitarian Conscience - Dawn Coleman -- Melville and the Mormons - Zachary McLeod Hutchins -- Melville's Asia, Melville's Missionaries - Brian Yothers -- Melville among the Heathens: Religion, Race, and Representation in the South Seas - Richard A. Garner -- Free Will and Determinism -- Coleridge, Edwards, and the Peculiar Progress of Melville's Free Will Problem - Brad Bannon -- "The Apocalypse of Pain": Suffering, Theodicy, and Religious Identity in Moby-Dick - Haein Park -- Contributors -- Index
