Volume.31 No.1 March 2026

• A Multidimensional Approach to Healing through Literature, Religion, and Politics.

  Jeongwon Nah

  Literature and Religion :: Vol.31 No.1 pp.1-26

  DOI:https://dx.doi.org/10.14376/lar.2026.31.1.1

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• Black Women’s Self-Exploration and Buddha’s Awakening— Based on Toni Morrison’s Beloved and A Mercy.

  Jong-mu Park

  Literature and Religion :: Vol.31 No.1 pp.27-54

  DOI:https://dx.doi.org/10.14376/lar.2026.31.1.27

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• A Study on the Narrative of Faith and the Imagination of Healing in Life of Pi.

  Jun-soo Kang

  Literature and Religion :: Vol.31 No.1 pp.55-76

  DOI:https://dx.doi.org/10.14376/lar.2026.31.1.55

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• The Paradox of Isolated Paradise and Catastrophic Consensus: A Cultural Psychological Analysis of The Sacrament and the Jonestown Massacre.

  Seonggyu Kim

  Literature and Religion :: Vol.31 No.1 pp.77-97

  DOI:https://dx.doi.org/10.14376/lar.2026.31.1.77

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• Han Kang’s Literary Spirituality in Terms of Seeking, Resistance, and Lived Experience.

  Junghyung Kim

  Literature and Religion :: Vol.31 No.1 pp.99-116

  DOI:https://dx.doi.org/10.14376/lar.2026.31.1.99

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• Understanding “Perfect Freedom” in the Poetry of George Herbert.

  Hannah Park

  Literature and Religion :: Vol.31 No.1 pp.117-137

  DOI:https://dx.doi.org/10.14376/lar.2026.31.1.117

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• Sacred Desire and Negative Epiphany: Religious Imagination and Secular Revelation in James Joyce’s “Araby.”

  Hyun-joo Yoo

  Literature and Religion :: Vol.31 No.1 pp.139-166

  DOI:https://dx.doi.org/10.14376/lar.2026.31.1.139

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• Aging and Enhancement.

  Jaehwan Lee

  Literature and Religion :: Vol.31 No.1 pp.167-191

  DOI:https://dx.doi.org/10.14376/lar.2026.31.1.167

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• A Study on the Narrative Structure and Literariness of the Seven Parables in the Lotus Sūtra: Focusing on Greimas’s Actantial Model.

  Hyo-sook Lee, Seon-kyung Choi

  Literature and Religion :: Vol.31 No.1 pp.193-220

  DOI:https://dx.doi.org/10.14376/lar.2026.31.1.193

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• The Ethics and Religion in Edith Wharton’s Sanctuary.

  Shin-hee Jung

  Literature and Religion :: Vol.31 No.1 pp.221-238

  DOI:https://dx.doi.org/10.14376/lar.2026.31.1.221

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• The Intersection of Christian Providence and Narrative Therapy: Focusing on Wilson Rawls’s Where the Red Fern Grows.

  Meeya Hahn

  Literature and Religion :: Vol.31 No.1 pp.239-259

  DOI:https://dx.doi.org/10.14376/lar.2026.31.1.239

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• 'Weft and Warp Narrative of Romance and Myeongrihak’: A Critical Review on Seo Ja-young’s Sajupalja.

  Keum-youn Han, Yong-sung Kim

  Literature and Religion :: Vol.31 No.1 pp.261-276

  DOI:https://dx.doi.org/10.14376/lar.2026.31.1.261

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