The Routledge companion to literature and religion
The Routledge companion to literature and religion
Bok · Engelsk · 2020
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| Omfang | xvi, 464 sider
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| Opplysninger | Introduction: religion, literature, and the art of conversation / Mark Knight -- The modern story of literature and religion. The inward turn: the role of Matthew Arnold / Joshua King -- Religion and the rise of English studies / Dayton Haskin -- Modernism and religion / Anthony Domestico -- The influence and limits of the Inklings / Trevor Hart -- Modern debates: Christianity and literature, literature and theology and religion and literature / Matthias Bauer and Angelika Zirker -- 9/11 and its literary-religious aftermaths / Mark Eaton -- The return to religion: secularization and its discontents / Devorah Baum -- Theory. Postsecular studies / Lori Branch -- The importance of philosophical hermeneutics for literature and religion / Jens Zimmermann -- Reception / Duc Dau -- Political theology / Jared Hickman -- Phenomenology / Kevin Hart -- Paul among the theorists: a genealogy of the new universalism / William Franke -- The aesthetics of simplicity / Jo Carruthers -- Form and genre. Theological writing: how to write a theological sentence / Stanley Hauerwas -- Rue Saint-Augustin: the remembering of God / John Schad -- Epic / Peter S. Hawkins -- Religion and literary tragedy: King Lear and the problem of evil / Ben Saunders -- Wes Anderson's messianic elegies / Emma Mason -- Comedy, levity and laughter: parables of agape / Gavin Hopps -- Gothic fiction and "belief in every kind of prodigy" / Deidre Shauna Lynch -- The Bible and the realist novel / Jan-Melissa Schramm -- The literary afterlives of sacred texts and traditions. Hosting the divine logos: radical hospitality and Dostoevsky's Crime and punishment / Valentina Izmirlieva -- "Found in every room": Victorian devotional literature / Krista Lysack -- The Bhagavad gita in American transcendentalism / Alan Hodder -- The "problem" of Buddhism for western literature: Edwin Arnold to Jack Kerouac / James Najarian -- Midrash in twentieth century Jewish American literature / Lesleigh Cushing Stahlberg -- The challenges of re-writing sacred texts: the case of twenty-first century Gospel narratives / Andrew Tate -- The authority of sacred texts in science fiction / James H. Thrall -- Apocalyptic narration: the Qur'an in contemporary Arabic fiction / Ziad Elmarsafy -- The politics of literature and religion. Judaism and national identity in medieval England / Samantha Zacher -- Hospitality as a virtue in The winter's tale / John D. Cox -- "Oh, lett that last will stand!": reading religion in Donne's holy sonnets / Susannah Brietz Monta -- The life of a Christian saint: the biography of Fannie McCray, born and raised a slave / Yolanda Pierce -- Religious pluralism and the Beats / Luke Ferretter -- From Roshi to Rashi: Leonard Cohen's interfaith dialogue / Peter Jaeger -- Reconciliation in South Africa: world literature, global Christianity, global capital / Colin Jager -- Imagining Islamism: representations of fundamentalism in the twenty-first century Arabic novel / Arthur Bradley & Abir Hamdar.. - This unique and comprehensive volume looks at the study of literature and religion from a contemporary critical perspective. Including discussion of global literature and world religions, this Companion looks at: key moments in the story of religion and literary studies from Matthew Arnold through to the impact of 9/11, a variety of theoretical approaches to the study of religion and literature, different ways that religion and literature are connected from overtly religious writing, to subtle religious readings, analysis of key sacred texts and the way they have been studied, re-written, and questioned by literature, political implications of work on religion and literature Thoroughly introduced and contextualized, this volume is an engaging introduction to this huge and complex field.
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| ISBN | 9780367365608
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