“Lodowicke Muggleton: Persistent Prophet.” Harvard Magazine (July-August 1983), 36-37.
RELIGION IN THE SOUTH
“Afterward.” The Changing Shape of Protestantism in the South. Eds, Marion Aldridge and Kevin Lewis. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press, 1966. ISBN 0 86554 518 9. 79-85.
“Religion in South Carolina Addresses the Public Order.” Religion in South Carolina. Ed. Charles Lippy. Columbia, SC: Univ of SC Press, 1992. 182-97.
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“The Use of Blake and the Recovery of Fideism,” Journal of the American Academy of Religion, LIV, 4 (Winter 1986), 741-757.
“The Impasse of Coleridge and the Way of Blake.” The Interpretation of Belief: Coleridge, Schleiermacher, and Romanticism. Ed. David Jasper. London: Macmillan, 1986. 225-34.
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“These fourteen essays by theologians and literary critics derive from a
conference on literature and religion held in Durham in 1984 to commemorate
the sesquicentennials of the death of Coleridge and Schleiermacher.
“Kevin Lewis, in a spirited conclusion, counsels those who feel the need for 'updated God-constructs' to close their Coleridge and open their Blake: for Coleridge, it appears, is an 'Ancient', while Blake is 'our greatest antinomian Modernist theologian.”
Richard Gravil, British Book News Lewis has given papers on Blake to the American Academy of Religion (Theology section), the Southeastern section of the AAR, the South Carolina Academy of Religion, and a conference on inter-textuality in British and American literature in Poznan, Poland. He has given public lectures on Blake at the Jagiellonian Univ.,Krakow, at the Univ. of Durham, Wake Forest Univ, Reynolda House, and Luther College. |
POLAND
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“The Auschwitz Museum and the Clash of Memories.” The Christian Century (January 23, 1991), 75-77.
“Poland: During, After, and Later.” The Fulbright Difference: 1948-1992. Eds. Richard T. Arndt and David Lee Rubin. New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction, 1993. 419-32.
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The essay is based upon a direct contribution, the first by an American scholar,
to the Polish free press quarterly, Arka: “Wizyta Na Koszt Wlasny” (tr. By Piotr
Pienkowski from the English, “A Visit at One's Own Expense”), No. 25
(March 1989), 13-16. In one of two sidebar boxes accompanying a review of the
The Fulbright Difference (a compendium of Fulbright experiences abroad by
29 Americans and 12 scholars from a dozen European countries and India) in the
NAFSA Newsletter (October 1993), the Reviewer, John F. Reichard featured a
passage from Lewis's text:
“Whether one was an academic or a diplomat ultimately made little difference. The Poles I met loved the idea of America and coveted what Americans have. But they had grown skeptical about an individual American's ability ever to understand the Polish reality or ever to evince critical curiosity about it. They were more apt to see Americans as friendly, fatuous, and lucky than as civilized, “intellectual,” and ironic. Experience of Americans seemed to have taught them to expect neither depth, nor acuity, nor survival cunnng. Western political liberalism as a source of ideas seemed irrelevant. And so both Fulbrighters and American diplomats in Poland were treated with a combination of material respect and intellectual condescension, and both for fairly good reasons, or so it seemed to me then.” |
AMERICAN APOCALYPSE
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“Nathanael West and American Apocalyptic.” Tradition and Postmodernity: English and American Studies and the Challenge of the Future. Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on English and American Literature and Language. Eds. Teresa bela and Zygmunt Mazur. Krakow, Poland: Jagiellonian University, 1999. 435-43. (Developed from a plenary presentation, “The Counter-Myth of American Apocalypse,” given at the conference, “The Myth of the American Adam,” University of Salamanca, Spain, March 12, 1999.)
“America's Obsession with Doom: Images of Apocalypse in Popular Culture.” Agora: A Journal of Interdisciplinary Discourse. Luther College (Spring 1991). 47-55.
| Lewis has lectured on American cultural apocalyptic at the Univ. of Bamberg, Germany, at The Univ. of Gdansk and the Higher Pedagogical School, Opole, Poland, at Janus Pannonius Univ, Pecs, Hungary, at St. John's College (Cambridge), and Clemson Univ. |
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
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“A Visit to the Carthusians.” The Christian Century (May 31, 1972), 631-32
“Innocence and Experience.” Born Into A World at War. Eds. Nancy Blackmun and Maria Tymoczko. Manchester, England: St. Jerome Publishing, 2000. 291-300.
| Memoir essays tracing the impact of World War II on the individual families of thirty-one members of the Harvard Class of 1965. |
SPORT AND RELIGION
“Superstardom and Transcendence.” Arete: The Journal of Sport Literature 2:2 (Spring 1985) (subsequently renamed Aethlon). 47-54.
“The Mystery of Mallory.” SportsJones: an online sports magazine (May 17, 1999). http://www.sportsjones.com (archived). Chosen for linkage with New City.com.
“The Lonely Marathon.” Theology Today (April 1982), 39-45. Reprinted as “We Miss a Lot If All We Do Is Run” in Christian Living (February 1983), 8-12, and in One For the Higger: Jack Higgs, A Man for all Seasons, ed. Lyle Olsen, Johnson City: East Tennessee State Univ. Press, 1994, 143-49
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