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The article focuses on various compilations of the work "Confessions" by the theologian Saint Augustin. The author seeks to examine how medieval preachers used this work in their preaching. The use of Augustin's "Confessions" in various published works during the medieval period is examined. The author argues that the scholars who compiled and edited works for use in preaching routinely used examples from "Confessions" during the thirteenth century. The article seeks to explore how the story related to the conversion of Saint Augustin was used by these editors in their compilations.

This article provides information on the different activities during the Conference on Christianity and Literature which was participated by young scholars to develop their ideas on the proposed turn of religion into literary studies. It states that participants are asked to explore ways and activities where they could participate in strengthening a critical sensibility that weighs the delicate registers of belief and unbelief, and by developing more theoretical paradigms that take religion seriously. The scholars are encouraged to write full-length papers, and engaged in a discussion and debate regarding their assessment on the religious turn in literary studies. Further information about the topics discussed is presented.

In a context in which many subjects cannot be pinned down within classic religious frameworks, and subsequently engage in certain recompositions of meaning—can these be reduced to a set of connotations, unhappily rendered banal by the application of the label, "bricolage"? Is it not rather the case that we are faced with evidence of symbolic transactions of greater importance, and which rather exceed the limit of the narrow description "religious bricolage"? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]