Belief as upbringing, belief as social fact, belief as a species of American Christian fundamentalism: "The Second" is a work of nonreligious religious fiction that engages all the markers of religion, with belief as the core of a modern-day American Gothic in which a trinity of characters clash over the complex ideologies that shape politics, religion, and spirituality. The vibrant, French Canadian Chantelle a woman who promotes a spirituality based on principles and not traditional dogma must balance her rocky romance with an aspiring half-Jewish architect, the continuing embrace with her...
Belief as upbringing, belief as social fact, belief as a species of American Christian fundamentalism: "The Second" is a work of nonreligious religiou...