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Publication Date:
01 May 2011
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
Imprint:
Ashgate Publishing
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Description
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 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.
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.
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