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Zusatztext "The most striking aspect of The Routledge Companion to Literature and Religion is its willingness to take seriously the distinctiveness of the faith traditions and theologies that it discusses[...] Readers new to this conversation might be surprised by what they fnd here; for those already involved! this book ofers a signifcant opportunity to refect on the range of our current conversations and on the directions in which they might move next."- Simon Marsden! The Glass Informationen zum Autor Mark Knight is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Lancaster University, UK. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis THE MODERN STORY OF RELIGION AND LITERATURE 1. The Inward Turn: The Role of Matthew Arnold 2. Religion and the Rise of English Studies 3. Modernism and Religion 4. The Influence and Limits of the Inklings 5. Modern Debates: Christianity and Literature , Literature and Theology and Religion and Literature 6. 9/11 and its Literary-Religious Aftermaths 7. The Return to Religion: Secularization and its Discontents THEORY 8. Postsecular Studies 9. The Importance of Philosophical Hermeneutics for Literature and Religion 10. Reception 11. Political Theology 12. Phenomenology 13. Paul Among the Theorists: A Genealogy of the New Universalism 14. The Aesthetics of Simplicity FORM AND GENRE 15. Theological Writing: How to Write a Theological Sentence 16. Rue Saint-Augustin: The Remembering of God 17. Epic 18. Religion and Literary Tragedy: King Lear and the Problem of Evil 19. Wes Anderson’s Messianic Elegies 20. Comedy, Levity and Laughter: Parables of Agape 21. Gothic Fiction and "belief in every kind of prodigy" 22. The Bible and the Realist Novel SACRED TEXTS AND THEIR LITERARY AFTERLIVES 23. Hosting the Divine Logos: Radical Hospitality and Dostoevsky’s Crime and Punishment 24. "Found in Every Room": Victorian Devotional Literature 25. The Bhagavad Gita in American Transcendentalism 26. The "Problem" of Buddhism for Western Literature: Edwin Arnold to Jack Kerouac 27. Midrash in Twentieth Century Jewish American Literature 28. The Challenges of Re-writing Sacred Texts: The Case of Twenty-First Century Gospel Narratives 29. The Authority of Sacred Texts in Science Fiction 30. Apocalyptic Narration: The Qur’an in Contemporary Arabic Fiction THE POLITICS OF RELIGION AND LITERATURE 31. Judaism and National Identity in Medieval England 32. Hospitality as a Virtue in The Winter’s Tale 33. "Oh, let that last will stand!": Reading Religion in Donne’s Holy Sonnets 34. The Life of a Christian Saint: The Biography of Fannie McCray, Born and Raised A Slave 35. Religious Pluralism and the Beats 36. From Roshi to Rashi: Leonard Cohen’s Interfaith Dialogue 37. Reconciliation in South Africa: World Literature, Global Christianity, Global Capital 38. Imagining Islamism: Representations of Fundamentalism in the Twenty-First Century Arabic Novel ...
