On The Strange Place of Religion in Contemporary Art, chapter 4, "Five Stories." By James Elkins

https://www.academia.edu/163553/On_The_Strange_Place_of_Religion_in_Contemporary_Art_chapter_4_Five_Stories_ See description for chapter 1. Chapter 4 is "Five Stories." This is the heart of the book: five stories about art students whose work engages religion. They are all based on students I had, with the names and some details changed. They are a spectrum from sincere work that aims to express a major religion's central beliefs, to insincere work that is critical of anything resembling faith. Together I think the five define the field of possibilities in contemporary art--although if I were to rewrite the book now, I would put much more stress on the first and fourth, instead of treating them as five potentially equal cases."