Article: Mark Twain's Religion.(Book Review)

Mark Twain's Religion. By William E. Phipps. Macon: Mercer University Press, 2003. Pp. xiii + 386. ISBN 0-86554-846-3 (cloth), 0-86554-897-8 (paper). $45.00 (cloth), $18.00 (paper).

William E. Phipps begins his volume by listing a fairly large number of critics who have insisted on the irreligious nature of Mark Twain; he then tells us that when he asked one librarian for information about Twain's religious views, she responded indignantly that there was none. A few paragraphs later Phipps complains that scholars have been insensitive to what William James called the "varieties of religious experience" (3). Phipps's status as an academic theologian and historian ...

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