Books in the Iconologies series explore the spiritual lives of charismatic and familiar persons, places, and things. The series aims to attract a broad readership and to lay claim to a classroom-friendly scholarly niche: the making of cultural icons as a generative site for the study of religion and spirituality.

The editors welcome keenly imagined proposals that extend the study of spiritual biography beyond the commonsense limits of subjectivity and religious tradition. Books in the series examine cultural icons from any historical period, in any region, with the analytic tools of any methodological repertory. The category of cultural icon encompasses musicians, artists, authors, athletes, celebrities, fictional and mythic personae, works of art, pilgrimage sites and other charged locales, corporate brands, and devotional objects. This list is not exhaustive.

Successful proposals will consider the ways their subjects command, repurpose, defy, channel, sidestep, or overcome religious authority in various forms, and how in so doing they foster new circuitries of spiritual power, new emotional and aesthetic responses, new experiences of belonging, and new objects of desire.