Contents: Shirley A. Stave: Introduction - Beverly Foulks: Trial by Fire: The Theodicy of Toni Morrison in Sula - Nancy Berkowitz Bate: Toni Morrison's Beloved : Psalm and Sacrament - David Z. Wehner: To Live This Life Intensely and Well: The Rebirth of Milkman Dead in Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon - Beth Benedrix: Intimate Fatality: Song of Solomon and the Journey Home - Ágnes Surányi: The Bible as Intertext in Toni Morrison's Novels - Sharon Jessee: The «Female Revealer» in Beloved, Jazz and Paradise : Syncretic Spirituality in Toni Morrison's Trilogy - Benjamin Burr: Mythopoetic Syncretism in Paradise and the Deconstruction of Hospitality in Love - Anissa Janine Wardi: Jazz Funerals and Mourning Songs: Toni Morrison's Call to the Ancestors in Sula - Jennifer Terry: A New World Religion? Creolisation and Candomblé in Toni Morrison's Paradise - Shirley A. Stave: The Master's Tools: Morrison's Paradise and the Problem of Christianity - Rebecca Degler: Ritual and «Other» Religions in The Bluest Eye .