The Routledge companion to literature and religion / edited by Mark Knight.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Knight, Mark, 1972- editor.

ebrary, Inc.

Class of 1932 Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and literature.

Religion in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

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Place of Publication:

Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2016.

System Details:

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Summary:

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. Book jacket.

Contents:

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, let 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.

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. Available via World Wide Web.

Print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1932 Fund.

Other Format:

Print version: Routledge companion to literature and religion.

ISBN:

9781135051099

1135051097

Publisher Number:

99968053740

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