Religion, Literature and the Imagination
Religion, Literature and the Imagination

Author: Mark Knight

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2011-11-03

Total Pages: 305

ISBN-13: 1441119612

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The study of religion and literature continues to go from strength to strength - this collection of essays offers a dynamic, lively and provocative contribution to the field and aims to map out new directions it might take. By returning to foundational questions regarding the relation between words and worlds and the parameters of the sacred, the essays explore different ways of using interdisciplinary resources to open up our understanding of religion and literature. Contributions from some of the leading voices in the field unite to offer an important exploration of the possible worlds that the study of religion and literature imagines.

The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Religion
The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Religion

Author: Susan M. Felch

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2016-09-12

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 1107097843

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Each essay in this Companion examines literary texts and a particular religious tradition to better understand both literature and religion.

The Study of Literature and Religion
The Study of Literature and Religion

Author: D. Jasper

Publisher: Springer

Published: 1989-09-18

Total Pages: 171

ISBN-13: 023038000X

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An exploration of the relationship between literature and religion, which adopts an interdisciplinary approach, aiming to provide an introduction to the variety of ways in which literature, literary theory and theology are related.

Food Restraint and Fasting in Victorian Religion and Literature
Food Restraint and Fasting in Victorian Religion and Literature

Author: Lesa Scholl

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2022-01-27

Total Pages: 174

ISBN-13: 1350256536

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Through an interdisciplinary lens of theology, medicine, and literary criticism, this book examines the complicated intersections of food consumption, political economy, and religious conviction in nineteenth-century Britain. Scholarship on fasting is gendered. This book deliberately faces this gendering by looking at the way in which four Victorian women writers - Christina Rossetti, Alice Meynell, Elizabeth Gaskell and Josephine Butler - each engage with food restraint from ethical, social and theological perspectives. While many studies look at fasting as a form of spiritual discipline or punishment, or alternatively as anorexia nervosa, this book positions limiting food consumption as an ethical choice in response to the food insecurity of others. By examining their works in this way, this study repositions feminine religious practice and writing in relation to food consumption within broader contexts of ecocriticism, economics and social justice.

The Study of Literature and Religion
The Study of Literature and Religion

Author: David Jasper

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2009-06-19

Total Pages: 179

ISBN-13: 1606088327

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Literature and religion are never far apart. The greatest literary achievements of the West, from Aeschylus to Dante to Shakespeare, cut deeply into the soul of humanity and stir in us those ultimate questions of existence, truth, and beauty which can only be answered, if they are ever answered at all, by religious commitment or the equally passionate rejection of theology and its speculation. - from the General Editor's Preface

A Reference Guide for English Studies
A Reference Guide for English Studies

Author: Michael J. Marcuse

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1990-01-01

Total Pages: 872

ISBN-13: 9780520051614

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This ambitious undertaking is designed to acquaint students, teachers, and researchers with reference sources in any branch of English studies, which Marcuse defines as "all those subjects and lines of critical and scholarly inquiry presently pursued by members of university departments of English language and literature.'' Within each of 24 major sections, Marcuse lists and annotates bibliographies, guides, reviews of research, encyclopedias, dictionaries, journals, and reference histories. The annotations and various indexes are models of clarity and usefulness, and cross references are liberally supplied where appropriate. Although cost-conscious librarians will probably consider the several other excellent literary bibliographies in print, such as James L. Harner's Literary Research Guide (Modern Language Assn. of America, 1989), larger academic libraries will want Marcuse's volume.-- Jack Bales, Mary Washington Coll. Lib., Fredericksburg, Va. -Library Journal.

Secular Steeples 2nd Edition
Secular Steeples 2nd Edition

Author: Conrad Ostwalt

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2012-11-29

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 1441172866

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The Scandinavian [Nordic] countries of Denmark, Norway, Sweden, and Finland experienced the effects of the German invasion in April 1940 in very different ways. Collaboration, resistance, and co-belligerency were only some of the short-term consequences. Each country's historiography has undergone enormous changes in the seventy years since the invasion, and this collection by leading historians examines the immediate effects of Hitler's aggression as well as the long-term legacies for each country's self-image and national identity. The Scandinavian countries' war experience fundamentally changed how each nation functioned in the post-war world by altering political structures, the dynamics of their societies, the inter-relationships between the countries and the popular view of the wartime political and social responses to totalitarian threats. Hitler was no respecter of the rights of the Scandinavian nations but he and his associates dealt surprisingly differently with each of them. In the post-war period, this has caused problems of interpretation for political and cultural historians alike. Drawing on the latest research, this volume will be a welcome addition to the comparative histories of Scandinavia and the Second World War.

The Routledge Handbook of Christianity and Culture
The Routledge Handbook of Christianity and Culture

Author: Yaakov Ariel

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2024-11-15

Total Pages: 601

ISBN-13: 0429522630

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The centrality and importance of the intersection of Christianity and culture when it comes to English-speaking countries and particularly American culture, history, and politics is beyond doubt. The Routledge Handbook of Christianity and Culture is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems, and debates in this exciting subject. Comprising over 35 chapters by a team of international contributors, the handbook is divided into five parts: • Practicing Christianity • Christianity and the Word • Social and Political Aspects of Christianity and Culture • Christianity and Culture in a Global Context • Christianity and the Arts Within these parts, central issues, debates, and problems are examined including liturgy, material Christianity, education, missions, religion and science, hermeneutics, Bible translations, Christian wars, human rights, law, social action, the secular, ecumenicalism, inter-religious relations, visual arts, literature, music, theatre, and film. The Routledge Handbook of Christianity and Culture is essential reading for students and researchers of religious studies and Christian studies. The handbook will also be very useful for those in related fields, such as cultural studies, area studies, visual studies, literature, and material religion.

The Routledge Companion to Literature and Religion
The Routledge Companion to Literature and Religion

Author: Mark Knight

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-04-28

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 1135051100

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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.

The Religion Factor
The Religion Factor

Author: William Scott Green

Publisher: Westminster John Knox Press

Published: 1996-01-01

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780664256883

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An introduction to religion draws from Christianity, Judaism, Islam, neopaganism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and the Autralian Aboriginal tradition