Reading the Abrahamic Faiths - Rethinking Religion and Literature

Zusatztext The product of a conference titled ‘Religious Identities in Literature,’ this illuminating collection of essays by a group of distinguished international scholars focuses on the intimate connection between religion, literature, and faith. Collectively, the essays aim to innovate new strategies for exploring the significance of the religious and the secular, as these animating phenomena are brought to consciousness through literary works ... Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. Informationen zum Autor Emma Mason is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick, UK, and an editor of Bloombury's New Directions in Religion and Literature series. Klappentext Rethinking religion and literature in a series of chapters by leading international scholars! Reading the Abrahamic Faiths opens up a dialogue between Jewish! Christian! Islamic and Post-Secular literary cultures. Literary studies has absorbed religion as another interdisciplinary mode of inquiry without always attending to its multifacted potential to question ideologically neutral readings of culture! belief! emotion! politics and inequality. In response! Reading the Abrahamic Faiths contributes to a reevaluation of the nexus between religion and literature that is socially! affectively and materially determined in its sensitivity to the expression of belief. Each section - Judaism! Christianity! Islam and Post-Secularism - is introduced by a specialist in these respective areas to introduce the critical readings of the texts and discourses that follow. Vorwort Leading scholars explore literary traditions in Islam, Judaism and Global Christianity to open up new directions of thought in the field of religion and literature. Zusammenfassung Rethinking religion and literature in a series of chapters by leading international scholars, Reading the Abrahamic Faiths opens up a dialogue between Jewish, Christian, Islamic and Post-Secular literary cultures.Literary studies has absorbed religion as another interdisciplinary mode of inquiry without always attending to its multifacted potential to question ideologically neutral readings of culture, belief, emotion, politics and inequality. In response, Reading the Abrahamic Faiths contributes to a reevaluation of the nexus between religion and literature that is socially, affectively and materially determined in its sensitivity to the expression of belief.Each section – Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Post-Secularism – is introduced by a specialist in these respective areas to introduce the critical readings of the texts and discourses that follow. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contents Acknowledgements Contributors Religion and literature 1. Emma Mason: ‘Re-thinking Religion and Literature’ 2. Yvonne Sherwood: ‘The Hagaramic and the Abrahamic, or Abraham the non-European’ 3. Prasenjit Duara: ‘Abrahamic Faiths and Dialogical Transcendence’ Judaism 4. Cynthia Scheinberg: ‘Introduction’ 5. Neta Stahl: ‘Jewish Writers and Nationalist Theology at the Fin-de-Siécle ’ 6. Jo Carruthers: ‘Acts of Hearing in the Book of Esther’ 7. Tom Sperlinger: ‘“Every human being is a cause”: Three re-writings of Abraham, Isaac and Ishmael’ Christianity 8. Josh King: ‘Introduction’ 9. Adriaan van Klinken: ‘The Black Messiah, or Christianity and Masculinity in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s The River Between ’ 10. Mate Vince: ‘“Tongue far from heart”: Disguises, Lies and Casuistry in Shakespeare’s

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Authors	Emma Mason, Mason Emma
Assisted by	Dr Emma Mason (Editor), Emma Mason (Editor), Emma (University of Warwick Mason (Editor), Mason Emma (Editor)
Publisher	Bloomsbury Academic
Languages	English
Product format	Hardback
Released	18.12.2014
EAN	9781472509505
ISBN	978-1-4725-0950-5
No. of pages	312
Subjects	Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, comparative religion, RELIGION / Comparative Religion, Literary theory

Product details

• Authors: Emma Mason, Mason Emma
• Assisted by: Dr Emma Mason (Editor), Emma Mason (Editor), Emma (University of Warwick Mason (Editor), Mason Emma (Editor)
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 18.12.2014
• EAN: 9781472509505
• ISBN: 978-1-4725-0950-5
• No. of pages: 312
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, comparative religion, RELIGION / Comparative Religion, Literary theory