ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part |76 pages
The Modern Story of Literature and Religion
chapter |11 pages
Modern Debates
Christianity and Literature, Literature and Theology, and Religion and Literature
part |78 pages
Theory
part |107 pages
Form and Genre
part |90 pages
The Literary Afterlives of Sacred Texts and Traditions
chapter |11 pages
The Challenges of Re-Writing Sacred Texts
The Case of Twenty-First Century Gospel Narratives
part |92 pages
The Politics of Literature and Religion
chapter |10 pages
The Life of a Christian Saint
The Biography of Fannie McCray, Born and Raised a Slave
chapter |14 pages
Reconciliation in South Africa
World Literature, Global Christianity, Global Capital
1
chapter |11 pages
Imagining Islamism
Representations of Fundamentalism in the Twenty-First Century Arabic Novel
1