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...
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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 contextualised, this volume is an engaging introduction to this huge and complex field.
Introduction: religion, literature, and the art of conversation / Mark KnightThe 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.
