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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. The field of study originated from the impetus to embrace the richness of imaginative resources in theological reflection and was stimulated by the re-emergence of the sacred in contemporary theory. Since the mid '90s critical theory has undergone a number of significant transformations, theology has become a subject of public concern and the boundaries between sacred and cultural texts have become increasingly unstable. This book 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.
List of contents
Contents: Introduction, Heather Walton; Interdisciplinarity in impossible times: studying religion through literature and the arts, David Jasper; Discipline beyond disciplines, Andrew W. Haas; When love is not true: literature and theology after romance, Heather Walton; Two (and two and two) towers: interdisciplinary borrowing and the limits of interpretation, Alana Vincent; Silence, rupture, theology. Towards a post-Christian interdisciplinarity, Mattias Martinson; Female genius: Jane Leade (1624-1704), Alison Jasper; Re-imagining the sacred in Caribbean literature, Fiona Darroch; Theological aesthetics and beauty as revelatory: an interdisciplinary assessment, John O'Connor; The sublime and the beautiful: intersections between theology and literature, Paul S. Fiddes; Touch and trembling: intimating interdisciplinary bodies, Mark Godin; A story of love and death: exploring space for the philosophical imaginary, Pamela Sue Anderson; The Devil in disciplines: the hermeneutic of Devil-hood in C.S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters, Christine Hsi-Chin Chou; Interdisciplinary poetics: S.T. Coleridge and the possibility of symbol-making after the word, Kelly Van Andel; Index.
About the author
Dr Heather Walton, Head of Department Theology and Religious Studies, Director of the Centre for Literature, Theology and the Arts, University of Glasgow
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
