Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Dedication -- Contents -- Biographical Information for Contributors -- Introduction: The Value of Cultivating Longing in a Secularized World -- Part 1. Relating Hope and Utopia -- 1. Utopia and Narrative: Theology between the Boundaries of Overhumanization and Hypertheism -- 2. Hope, Hatred, and the Ambiguities of Utopic Longing -- 3. What Means Utopia to Us? Reconsidering More's Message -- 4. Desiring Utopian Subjects: Collectivity and Its Discontents -- Part 2. Historical and Literary Utopian Visions -- 5. John Calvin, Geneva, and Godly Patriarchs: Hope and Reality in the Creation of a Christian Utopia -- 6. Fruit, Fossils, Footprints: Cathecting Utopia in the Work of Miyazawa Kenji -- 7. Walter Kerr's Utopia of Re-Creation -- 8. Reframed Hope: Transcendent Technology and Spiraling Subjectivity in Dystopian Cinema -- Part 3. The Hope for Atheism as a Religious Utopia -- 9. Who We Are Is God's Dying: The Real Presence of God's Absence in Bonhoeffer's Prison Poems -- 10. TechnoTopia: The Convergence of Art and Technology in the Twentieth Century and Beyond -- 11. The Coming Community: Agamben, Benjamin, and the Hope for a Materialist-Messianic Redemption of the Present -- 12. No-Places for Sacred Communities: Hope and the Failure of Fight Club -- Back Cover.