Bakhtin and Religion: A Feeling for Faith

About the author

Susan M. Felch is an associate professor of English at Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Paul J. Contino is an associate professor of humanities at Christ College, Valparaiso University. His work has appeared in the journals Studies in the Novel, Renascence, and Religion and Literature.

Summary

This work investigates the role of religious thought in shaping and framing Bakhtin's writings. The authors explore Bakhtin's idea of faith - an abstract codification of a belief system - and a feeling for faith which involves the active participation of persons, both human and divine.

Product details

• Authors: Paul J. Contino, Susan M. Felch
• Assisted by: Paul J. Contino (Editor), Susan M. Felch (Editor)
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2001
• EAN: 9780810118256
• ISBN: 978-0-8101-1825-6
• No. of pages: 252
• Dimensions: 151 mm x 229 mm x 20 mm
• Weight: 404 g
• Series: Rethinking Theory; Rethinking Theory (Paperback); Rethinking Theory; Rethinking Theory (Paperback)
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Slavonic linguistics / literary studies