Notes on Contributors Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Understanding Seeking Faith: An Introduction to Religion in David Foster Wallace's Life (Martin Brick, Ohio Dominican University, USA) 1. Came to Believe: The Religion of Alcoholics Anonymous in Infinite Jest (Rob Short, University of Florida, USA) 2. A Less "Bullshitty" Way to Live: The Pragmatic Spirituality of David Foster Wallace (Robert K. Bolger, Independent Scholar, USA) 3. "Not Another Word": Nietzsche and Wallace on Overcoming Nihilism (Michael McGowan, Florida Southwestern State College, USA) 4. In G.O.D. We Trust: The Desert of the Religious in The Broom of the System (Vernon W. Cisney, Gettysburg College, USA) 5. "Saying God with a Straight Face": Towards an Understanding of Christian Soteriology in Infinite Jest (Dave Laird, Independent Scholar, Canada) 6. Infinite Jest, C.S. Lewis's Tao, and Religious Community (Peter Spaulding, Marquette University, USA) 7. "Somewhat Lost and Desolate Inside": Overcoming Acedia in The Pale King (Michael O'Connell, Siena Heights University, USA) 8. "The Moral Equivalent of War": Fungible Transcendentals in The Pale King (Robert Hamilton, Temple College, USA) 9. A Spoon, Some Eskimos, and the Wise Old Fish: Religion and the Evolution of Wallace's Kenyon Commencement Address (Matt Bucher, Independent Scholar, USA, and Martin Brick, Ohio Dominican University, USA) 10. David Foster Wallace and Postsecularism (Ryan Lackey, University of California, Berkeley, USA) 11. "There's Always a Mormon Around When You Don't Want One": What Wallace Can Teach the Church Media Machine (Jessica E. Sagers, Harvard University, USA) 12. Zen Buddhist Philosophy Lurking in the Work of David Foster Wallace (Krzysztof Piekarski, University of Texas at Austin, USA) Conclusion: The Religious Worlds of David Foster Wallace
Both Fiction and Not (Michael McGowan, Florida Southwestern State College, USA) Index