Inside the church of Flannery O'Connor : sacrament, sacramental, and the sacred in her fiction - McMullen, Joanne Halleran; Peede, Jon Parrish (Macon, Ga. : Mercer University Press, 2008)
Inside the church of Flannery O'Connor : an introduction / Jon Parrish Peede -- Real presence : Flannery O'Connor and the saints / W.A. Sessions -- The hylomorphic sacramentalism of "Parker's back" / Helen R. Andretta -- Flannery O'Connor and the displaced sacrament / John F. Desmond -- Beholding the handmaids : Catholic womanhood and "The comforts of home" / Robert Donahoo -- Flannery O'Connor and the cartoon catechism / Jill Pelaez Baumgaertner -- Partaking of the sacraments with Blake and O'Connor : a reading / Stephen C. Behrendt -- "The bottom rail is on the top" : race and "theological whiteness" in Flannery O'Connor's short fiction / Timothy P. Caron -- Christian but not Catholic : baptism in Flannery O'Connor's "The river" / Joanne Halleran McMullen -- The scandalous baptism of Harry Ashfield : Flannery O'Connor's "The river" / Ralph C. Wood -- Flannery O'Connor and the discernment of Catholic fiction / John R. May.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: O'Connor, Flannery -- Criticism and interpretation; O'Connor, Flannery -- Religion; Christianity in literature; Sacraments in literature; Theology in literature; Christianity and literature -- Southern States; O'Connor, Flannery