Literature and theology : new interdisciplinary spaces / edited Heather Walton.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Walton, Heather.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religion and literature.

Theology in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (232 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book explores current trends in the interdisciplinary study of literature and theology - an area of academic activity that has developed dramatically in the past twenty years and brings together the work of leading scholars in the field with that of emerging voices. Offering an important resource for the growing number of postgraduate courses exploring the relation between religion and culture in the contemporary context, this book delineates current trends in interdisciplinary debate as well as tracing emerging configurations.

Contents:

Cover; Contents; Contributor Biographies; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Interdisciplinarity in Impossible Times; 2 Discipline Beyond Disciplines; 3 When Love Is Not True: Literature and Theology after Romance; 4 Two (and two, and two) Towers; 5 Silence, Rupture, Theology. Towards a Post-Christian Interdisciplinarity; 6 Female Genius: Jane Leade (1624-1704); 7 Re-imagining the Sacred in Caribbean Literature; 8 Theological Aesthetics and Beauty as Revelatory: An Interdisciplinary Assessment; 9 The Sublime and the Beautiful: Intersections between Theology and Literature

10 Touch and Trembling: Intimating Interdisciplinary Bodies11 A Story of Love and Death: Exploring Space for the Philosophical Imaginary; 12 The Devil in Disciplines; 13 Interdisciplinary Poetics; Index

Notes:

First published 2011 by Ashgate Publishing.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-351-92195-9

1-315-25040-3

1-283-08962-9

9786613089625

0-7546-9852-1

9781315250403

OCLC:

721194179