The Routledge Companion to Literature and Religion

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.

Auteur

Mark Knight is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and Creative Writing at Lancaster University, UK.

Contenu

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