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  1. Religion, toleration, and British writing, 1790-1830
    Author: Canuel, Mark
    Published: 2002
    Publisher:  Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, U.K.

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    ISBN: 0521815770
    Series: Cambridge studies in Romanticism ; 53
    Subjects: Geschichte; English literature; Religion and literature; Religious tolerance in literature; Religion and literature; Religious tolerance; Religious tolerance; English literature; Romanticism; Literatur; Englisch; Romantik; Religiöse Literatur; Religiöse Toleranz
    Scope: vi, 317 p
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. 302-313) and index
  2. Nineteenth-century religion, literature and society
    Contributor: Hetherington, Naomi (Herausgeber); Styler, Rebecca (Herausgeber); Eyre, Angharad (Herausgeber); Dwor, Richa (Herausgeber); Stainthorp, Clare (Herausgeber)
    Published: 2020
    Publisher:  Routledge, Abingdon, Oxon ; Taylor & Francis Group, London

    This four-volume historical resource provides new opportunities for investigating the relationship between religion, literature and society in Britain and its imperial territories by making accessible a diverse selection of harder-to-find primary... more

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    This four-volume historical resource provides new opportunities for investigating the relationship between religion, literature and society in Britain and its imperial territories by making accessible a diverse selection of harder-to-find primary sources. These include religious fiction, poetry, essays, memoirs, sermons, travel writing, religious ephemera, unpublished notebooks and pamphlet literature. Spanning the long nineteenth century (c.1789-1914), the resource departs from older models of the Victorian crisis of faith' in order to open up new ways of conceptualising religion. A key concern of the resource is to integrate non-Christian religions into our understanding and representations of religious life in this period. Each volume is framed around a different meaning of the term religion'. Volume one on Traditions' offers an overview of the different religious traditions and denominations present in Britain in this period. Volume two on Mission and Reform' considers the social and political importance of religious faith and practice as expressed through foreign and domestic mission and philanthropic and political movements at home and abroad. Volume three turns to Religious Feeling' as an important and distinct category for understanding the ways in which religion is embodied and expressed in culture. Volume four on Disbelief and New Beliefs' explores the transformation of the religious landscape of Britain and its imperial territories during the nineteenth century as a result of key cultural and intellectual forces. The resource is aimed primarily at researchers and students working within the fields of literature and social and religious history. It supplies an interpretative context for sources in the form of explanatory headnotes to each source or group of sources and volume introductions that explore overarching themes. Each volume can be read independently, but they work together to elucidate the complex and multi-faceted nature of nineteenth-century religious life

     
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    Contributor: Hetherington, Naomi (Herausgeber); Styler, Rebecca (Herausgeber); Eyre, Angharad (Herausgeber); Dwor, Richa (Herausgeber); Stainthorp, Clare (Herausgeber)
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
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    ISBN: 9781351272353; 1351272357; 9781351272346; 1351272349; 9781351272339; 1351272330; 9781351272360; 1351272365
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    Subjects: Religion and literature; Literature and society; English literature; HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource
  3. Emergence from chaos
    Author: Holroyd, Stuart
    Published: 1972
    Publisher:  Books for Libraries Press, Freeport, NY

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    ISBN: 0836926951
    RVK Categories: HD 142
    Edition: Repr.
    Series: Essay index reprint series
    Subjects: Poetry, Modern; Religion and literature; Religious poetry
    Scope: 224 S.
  4. Was Dichter glauben
    Gespräche über Gott und Literatur
    Author: Lätzel, Martin
    Published: 2011
    Publisher:  Wittig, Kiel

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    Language: German
    Media type: Book
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    ISBN: 9783804845053
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    RVK Categories: GN 1058
    Subjects: Authors, German; Authors, German; Religion and literature
    Scope: 140 S, Ill, 22 cm
  5. Kaleidoscope
    F.M. Dostoevsky and the early dialectical theology
    Author: Tolstaya, Katya
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Brill, Leiden

    Preliminary Material -- 1. The Polyphonic Novel -- 2. Kaleidoscope -- 3. Introduction -- 4. The Rebirth of Religious Convictions -- 5. ‘Masha is Lying on the Table’ -- 6. ‘How Do You Believe?’ Philosophically -- 7. ‘How Do You Believe?’ Theologically... more

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    Preliminary Material -- 1. The Polyphonic Novel -- 2. Kaleidoscope -- 3. Introduction -- 4. The Rebirth of Religious Convictions -- 5. ‘Masha is Lying on the Table’ -- 6. ‘How Do You Believe?’ Philosophically -- 7. ‘How Do You Believe?’ Theologically -- 8. Conclusion -- 9. Introduction to the Theme “Dostoevsky and Early Dialectical Theology” -- 10. Dostoevsky in the Correspondence between Barth and Thurneysen -- 11. Thurneysen’s Dostojewski -- 12. Dostoevsky in Römerbrief II Explained in the Light of the Briefwechsel and Thurneysen’s Commentaries -- Archive Material -- Bibliography -- Index. Introducing a new hermeneutics, this book explores the correlation between the personal faith of F.M. Dostoevsky (1821-1881) and the religious quality of his texts. In offering the first comprehensive analysis of his ego documents, it demonstrates how faith has methodologically to be defined by the inaccessibility of the 'living person'. This thesis, which draws on the work of M.M. Bakhtin, is further developed by critically examining the reception of Dostoevsky by the two main representatives of early dialectical theology, Karl Barth and Eduard Thurneysen. In the early 1920s, they claimed Dostoevsky as a chief witness to their radical theology of the fully transcendent God. While previously unpublished archive materials demonstrate the theological problems of their static conceptual interpretation, the 'kaleidoscopic' hermeneutics is founded on the awareness that a text offers only a fixed image, whereas living faith is in permanent motion

     
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    Series: Brill's series in church history ; 61
    Subjects: Religion and literature; Life in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Former Soviet Union
    Other subjects: Dostoyevsky, Fyodor (1821-1881); Dostoyevsky, Fyodor (1821-1881)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xix, 371 pages), illustrations
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    Revised translation of: Caleidoscoop. - Gorinchem : Narratio, 2006

    Includes bibliographical references and index
  6. Orality and textuality in the Iranian world
    patterns of interaction across the centuries
    Published: [2015]
    Publisher:  Brill, Leiden

    Preliminary Material -- Introduction: New Perspectives on Orality in Iranian Studies /Julia Rubanovich -- 1 Memory and Textuality in the Orality-Literacy Continuum /Karl Reichl -- 2 Orality and Esotericism /Shaul Shaked -- 3 Irano-Talmudica iii... more

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    Preliminary Material -- Introduction: New Perspectives on Orality in Iranian Studies /Julia Rubanovich -- 1 Memory and Textuality in the Orality-Literacy Continuum /Karl Reichl -- 2 Orality and Esotericism /Shaul Shaked -- 3 Irano-Talmudica iii /Reuven Kiperwasser and Dan D.Y. Shapira -- 4 The Islamic Ascension Narrative in the Context of Conversion in Medieval Iran /Maria E. Subtelny -- 5 The Motif of the Cave and the Funerary Narratives of Nāṣir-i Khusrau /Jo-Ann Gross -- 6 ʻThe Ground Well Trodden But the Shah Not Found . . .ʼ /Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw Vevaina -- 7 ʻThe Book of the Black Demon,ʼ or Shabrang-nāma, and the Black Demon in Oral Tradition /Gabrielle R. van den Berg -- 8 Why So Many Stories? Untangling the Versions of Iskandar’s Birth and Upbringing /Julia Rubanovich -- 9 Some Comments on the Probable Sources of Ibn Ḥusām’s Khāvarānnāma and the Oral Transmission of Epic Materials /Raya Shani -- 10 Professional Storytelling (naqqālī) in Qājār Iran /Ulrich Marzolph -- 11 The Literary Use of Proverbs and Myths in Nāṣir-i Khusrau’s Dīvān /Mohsen Zakeri -- 12 Classical Poetry as Cultural Capital in the Proverbs of Jews from Iran /Galit Hasan-Rokem -- 13 Gashtak: Oral/Literary Intertextuality, Performance and Identity in Contemporary Tajikistan /Margaret Mills and Ravshan Rahmoni -- 14 The Tale of ʻThe Old Woman on the Mountainʼ /Tsila Zan-Bar Tsur -- 15 Aramaic Incantation Texts between Orality and Textuality /Charles G. Häberl -- 16 Between Demons and Kings /Naama Vilozny -- 17 Between Written Texts, Oral Performances and Mural Paintings /Frantz Grenet -- Index. The volume demonstrates the cultural centrality of the oral tradition for Iranian studies. It contains contributions from scholars from various areas of Iranian and comparative studies, among which are the pre-Islamic Zoroastrian tradition with its wide network of influences in late antique Mesopotamia, notably among the Jewish milieu; classical Persian literature in its manifold genres; medieval Persian history; oral history; folklore and more. The essays in this collection embrace both the pre-Islamic and Islamic periods, both verbal and visual media, as well as various language communities (Middle Persian, Persian, Tajik, Dari) and geographical spaces (Greater Iran in pre-Islamic and Islamic medieval periods; Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan of modern times). Taken as a whole, the essays reveal the unique blending of oral and literate poetics in the texts or visual artefacts each author focuses upon, conceptualizing their interrelationship and function

     
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    Series: Jerusalem studies in religion and culture ; v. 19
    Subjects: Persian literature; Oral tradition; Transmission of texts; Zoroastrianism; Religion and literature; Folklore; Intellectual life; Manners and customs; Oral tradition; Persian literature; Persian poetry; Religion and literature; Study skills; Transmission of texts; Zoroastrianism; Criticism, interpretation, etc; History
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 456 pages), illustrations (some color)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index
  7. Religion and Literature: History and Method
    Author: Eric, Ziolkowski
    Published: 2019
    Publisher:  BRILL, Leiden

    Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Religion and Literature: History and Method. Religion and literature is the study of interrelationships between religious or theological traditions and literary traditions, both oral and written, with special... more

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    Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Religion and Literature: History and Method. Religion and literature is the study of interrelationships between religious or theological traditions and literary traditions, both oral and written, with special attention to religious or theological underpinnings of, influences upon, and reflections in, individual “texts” (oral and written) or authors’ oeuvres. Religion and Literature: History and Method by Eric Ziolkowski considers the origins and history of, and methods employed in, that scholarly enterprise, focusing on the dual construals of “literature” in religious studies (as a body of sacred writings and as writing valued for artistic merit); the problematics of defining “religion”; the transformation of theology and literature as a “field” (pioneered by Nathan A. Scott Jr. et al.) to religion and literature; the affiliated fields of myth criticism, and of biblical reception; and the institutionalization, globalization, and future of the study of religion and literature

     
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    ISBN: 9789004423909; 9789004420540
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    Series: Brill Research Perspectives
    Subjects: Religion and literature
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  8. Conversions and visions in the writings of African-American women
    Author: Connor, Kimberly R.
    Published: 1994
    Publisher:  <<The>> Univ. of Tennessee Pr., Knoxville

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    ISBN: 0870498185
    RVK Categories: HU 1819 ; HU 1728
    Edition: 1. ed.
    Subjects: Array; Array; Array; Array; Array; African American women in literature; Conversion in literature; Visions in literature
    Scope: X, 317 S.
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    Literaturverz. S. [291] - 309
  9. Johannes Nádasi
    Europäische Verbindungen der geistlichen Erzählliteratur Ungarns im 17. Jahrhundert
    Author: Tüskés, Gábor
    Published: 2001
    Publisher:  Max Niemeyer Verlag, Tübingen

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    Language: German
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    ISBN: 9783110937824
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    RVK Categories: GE 4634 ; EK 2805 ; BM 1260
    Series: Frühe Neuzeit ; Band 62
    Subjects: Geschichte; Comparative Literary Studies; Geistliche Literatur; Katholische Erneuerung; Literary Studies; Literature in Diverse Languages; Nádasi, János; Ungarn; Hungarian literature; Latin literature, Medieval and modern; Religion and literature; Geistliche Literatur; Katholische Erneuerung
    Other subjects: Nádasi, János <1613-1679>; Nádasi, János (1613-1679)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (X, 533 Seiten), Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
  10. By the Grace of God
    Francoist Spain and the Sacred Roots of Political Imagination
    Author: Viestenz, William R.
    Published: [2014]; © 2014
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto

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    ISBN: 9781442668584
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    Subjects: Geschichte; Religion and literature; Religion and politics; Religion in literature; Spanish literature; Politik; Nationalbewusstsein; Konfession; Franquismus
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  11. From Lawmen to Plowmen
    Anglo-Saxon Legal Tradition and the School of Langland
    Author: Yeager, Stephen
    Published: [2014]; © 2014
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto

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    ISBN: 9781442696167
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    Subjects: Englisch; Geschichte; English language; English poetry; Law and literature; Religion and literature; Lyrik; Mittelenglisch; Gesetzestafel; Stabreimvers
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  12. Fictions of Conversion
    Jews, Christians, and Cultures of Change in Early Modern England
    Author: Shoulson, Jeffrey S.
    Published: [2013]

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  13. Confessions of Faith in Early Modern England
    Author: Conti, Brooke
    Published: [2014]

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    ISBN: 9780812209211
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    Subjects: Englische Literatur; English literature / Early modern, 1500-1700 / History and criticism; Religion and literature / England / History / 17th century; Authors, English / Religious life; Autobiography / Religious aspects; Faith in literature; Polemics in literature; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; English literature / Early modern; Religion and literature; Geschichte; Religion; Glaube <Motiv>; Autobiografie; Literatur; Frühneuenglisch
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (240p.)
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    In speeches, political pamphlets, and other works of religious controversy, writers from the reign of James I to that of James II unexpectedly erupt into autobiography. Brooke Conti positions these texts as products of the era's tense political climate
  14. The Altar at Home
    Sentimental Literature and Nineteenth-Century American Religion
    Author: Stokes, Claudia
    Published: [2014]

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    ISBN: 9780812290141
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    Subjects: Englische Literatur Amerikas; Religion and literature / United States / History / 19th century; Sentimentalism in literature; Christianity in literature; American literature / Women authors / History and criticism; American literature / 19th century / History and criticism; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; American literature; American literature / Women authors; Religion and literature; Geschichte; Frömmigkeit <Motiv>; Sentimentalität <Motiv>; Religion <Motiv>; Roman
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (296p.)
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    The Altar at Home explores the many religious contexts and contents of the sentimental literature of the American nineteenth century, arguing that this genre played a dynamic role in the development of revivalism, millennialism, feminism, and other forms of heterodoxy
  15. Unquiet things
    secularism in the Romantic age
    Author: Jager, Colin
    Published: 2015
    Publisher:  Univ. of Pa. Press, Phíladephia, Pa.

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    ISBN: 9780812290400; 9780812246643
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    RVK Categories: HL 1131
    Series: Haney Foundation Series
    Subjects: Englische Literatur; Geschichte; Religion and literature; Religion and literature; English literature; English literature; Theology in literature; Theology in literature; Secularization (Theology); Secularization (Theology); Romanticism; Romantik; Englisch; Säkularisierung; Literatur
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (VIII, 332 S.)
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    Reading works by Austen, Coleridge, Byron, and Shelley among others, Unquiet Things investigates the social and political disorders that arise within modern secular cultures. Jager demonstrates the distinctive ability of literary writing to register the uneasiness and anxiety that characterize the mood of secular modernity
  16. Die Wahrheit der Fiktion
    Studien zur weltlichen und geistlichen Literatur des Mittelalters und der frühen Neuzeit
    Author: Haug, Walter
    Published: 2003
    Publisher:  De Gruyter, Berlin

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    Language: German
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    ISBN: 9783484108530; 9783110945492; 9783111851396
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    RVK Categories: EC 5124 ; GB 1750
    Subjects: Literature, Medieval; Literature, Modern; Religion and literature; Frühneuhochdeutsch; Mittelhochdeutsch; Literatur
    Other subjects: Haug, Walter (1927-2008); Electronic books
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (XI, 708 S.)
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    Includes bibliographical references and index

    Main description: Either directly or with reference to its repercussions, the essays assembled here deal with the intellectual revolution that transformed western culture in the 12th and 13th centuries and paved the way for the modern age. Two major innovations claim central interest. One is the project of a fictional form of literature that instead of claiming possession of the truth, as in the traditional view of the world, set out to in quest of it. The other is the idea of a new, personal relationship between 'I' and 'you', both in its religious form and as erotic encounter between the sexes

    Main description: In den hier versammelten Aufsätzen geht es - direkt oder in der Weiterwirkung - um den geistigen Umbruch, der im 12./13. Jahrhundert die abendländisch-westliche Kultur grundlegend umgestaltet und den Weg zur Neuzeit vorbereitet hat. Im Zentrum stehen zwei hervorragende Innovationen: zum einen der Entwurf einer fiktionalen Literatur, die nicht mehr wie das traditionelle Weltverständnis über die Wahrheit verfügt, sondern sie erst sucht, und zum andern die Idee einer neuen, personalen Du-Beziehung sowohl als religiöse wie als zwischengeschlechtlich-erotische Erfahrung

    Review text: "La qualité des articles, les résponses précises, novatrices et convaincantes, apportées à des questions parfois anciennes devraient faire de ce recueil un ouvrage de référence."P. del Duca in: Etudes Germaniques 7-9/2007
  17. Spirit Matters
    The Transcendant in Modern Japanese Literature
    Author: Gabriel, Philip
    Published: [2006]; © 2006
    Publisher:  University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu

    Spirit Matters is a ground-breaking work, the first to explore a broad range of writings on spirituality in contemporary Japanese literature. It draws on a variety of literary works, from enormously popular fiction (Miura Ayako’s Hyôten and Shirokari... more

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    Spirit Matters is a ground-breaking work, the first to explore a broad range of writings on spirituality in contemporary Japanese literature. It draws on a variety of literary works, from enormously popular fiction (Miura Ayako’s Hyôten and Shirokari Pass and the novels of Murakami Haruki) to more problematic "serious" fiction (Ôe Kenzaburô’s Somersault) to nonfiction meditations on martyrdom and miracles (Sono Ayako’s Kiseki) and the dynamics of religious cults (Murakami’s interviews with members of Aum Shinrikyô in Underground). The first half of the volume focuses on the work of two women Christian writers, Miura Ayako and Sono Ayako. Combining a decidedly evangelistic bent with the formulas of the popular novel, Miura’s 1964 novel Hyôten (Freezing Point) and its sequel are entertaining perennial bestsellers but also treat spiritual issues—like original sin—that are largely unexplored in modern Japanese literature. Sono’s Kiseki (Miracles) and Miura’s Shiokari Pass focus on the meaning of self-sacrifice and the miraculous and survey both the paths by which people come to faith and the spiritual doubts that assail them. Perhaps most striking for Western readers, Gabriel reveals how Miura’s novel shows the lingering resistance to Christianity and its oppositional nature in Japan, and how in Kiseki Sono considers the kind of spiritual struggles many Japanese Christians experience as they try to reconcile their belief in a minority faith

     
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    Subjects: Japanese literature; Japanese literature; Religion and literature; Japanisch; Literatur
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  18. Relics and Writing in Late Medieval England
    Author: Malo, Robyn
    Published: [2018]; © 2013
    Publisher:  University of Toronto Press, Toronto

    Relics and Writing in Late Medieval England uncovers a wide-ranging medieval discourse that had an expansive influence on English literary traditions. Drawing from Latin and vernacular hagiography, miracle stories, relic lists, and architectural... more

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    Relics and Writing in Late Medieval England uncovers a wide-ranging medieval discourse that had an expansive influence on English literary traditions. Drawing from Latin and vernacular hagiography, miracle stories, relic lists, and architectural history, this study demonstrates that, as the shrines of England’s major saints underwent dramatic changes from c. 1100 to c. 1538, relic discourse became important not only in constructing the meaning of objects that were often hidden, but also for canonical authors like Chaucer and Malory in exploring the function of metaphor and of dissembling language.Robyn Malo argues that relic discourse was employed in order to critique mainstream religious practice, explore the consequences of rhetorical dissimulation, and consider the effect on the socially disadvantaged of lavish expenditure on shrines. The work thus uses the literary study of relics to address issues of clerical and lay cultures, orthodoxy and heterodoxy, and writing and reform

     
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    ISBN: 9781442663251
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    Subjects: English literature; Relics in literature; Religion and literature; Mittelenglisch; Reliquie; Literatur
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  19. Langston's Salvation
    American Religion and the Bard of Harlem
    Author: Best, Wallace D.
    Published: [2017]; © 2017
    Publisher:  New York University Press, New York, NY

    Winner of the 2018 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in Textual Studies, presented by the American Academy of Religion 2018 Outstanding Academic Title, given by Choice MagazineA new perspective on the role of religion in the work of... more

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    Winner of the 2018 Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in Textual Studies, presented by the American Academy of Religion 2018 Outstanding Academic Title, given by Choice MagazineA new perspective on the role of religion in the work of Langston HughesLangston's Salvation offers a fascinating exploration into the religious thought of Langston Hughes. Known for his poetry, plays, and social activism, the importance of religion in Hughes’ work has historically been ignored or dismissed. This book puts this aspect of Hughes work front and center, placing it into the wider context of twentieth-century American and African American religious cultures. Best brings to life the religious orientation of Hughes work, illuminating how this powerful figure helped to expand the definition of African American religion during this time. Best argues that contrary to popular perception, Hughes was neither an avowed atheist nor unconcerned with religious matters. He demonstrates that Hughes’ religious writing helps to situate him and other black writers as important participants in a broader national discussion about race and religion in America. Through a rigorous analysis that includes attention to Hughes’s unpublished religious poems, Langston’s Salvation reveals new insights into Hughes’s body of work, and demonstrates that while Hughes is seen as one of the most important voices of the Harlem Renaissance, his writing also needs to be understood within the context of twentieth-century American religious liberalism and of the larger modernist movement. Combining historical and literary analyses with biographical explorations of Langston Hughes as a writer and individual, Langston’s Salvation opens a space to read Langston Hughes’ writing religiously, in order to fully understand the writer and the world he inhabited

     
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    Subjects: RELIGION / History; African Americans; Religion and literature; Religion
    Other subjects: Hughes, Langston (1902-1967)
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  20. Lessons in Secular Criticism
    Author: Gourgouris, Stathis
    Published: [2013]; © 2013
    Publisher:  Fordham University Press, New York, NY

    Secular criticism is a term invented by Edward Said to denote not a theory but a practice that counters the tendency of much modern thinking to reach for a transcendentalist comfort zone, the very space philosophy wrested away from religion in the... more

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    Secular criticism is a term invented by Edward Said to denote not a theory but a practice that counters the tendency of much modern thinking to reach for a transcendentalist comfort zone, the very space philosophy wrested away from religion in the name of modernity. Using this notion as a compass, this book reconfigures recent secularism debates on an entirely different basis, by showing (1) how the secular imagination is closely linked to society’s radical poiesis, its capacity to imagine and create unprecedented forms of worldly existence; and (2) how the space of the secular animates the desire for a radical democratic politics that overturns inherited modes of subjugation, whether religious or secularist.Gourgouris’s point is to disrupt the co-dependent relation between the religious and the secular—hence, his rejection of fashionable languages of postsecularism—in order to engage in a double critique of heteronomous politics of all kinds. For him, secular criticism is a form of political being: critical, antifoundational, disobedient, anarchic, yet not negative for negation’s sake but creative of new forms of collective reflection, interrogation, and action that alter not only the current terrain of dominant politics but also the very self-conceptualization of what it means to be human.Written in a free and combative style and given both to close readings of texts and to gazing off into the broad horizon, these essays cover a range of issues—historical and philosophical, archaic and contemporary, literary and political—that ultimately converge in the significance of contemporary radical politics: the assembly movements we have seen in various parts of the world in recent years. The secular imagination demands a radical pedagogy and unlearning a great many established thought patterns. Its most important dimension is not battling religion per se but dismantling theological politics of sovereignty in favor of radical conditions for social autonomy

     
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    Series: Thinking Out Loud
    Subjects: Sovereignty; autonomy; critique; democracy; poetics; political theology; radical politics; secularism; RELIGION / General; Criticism; Literature; Religion and literature; Secularism in literature
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  21. Mourning Philology
    Art and Religion at the Margins of the Ottoman Empire
    Author: Nichanian, Marc
    Published: [2014]; © 2014
    Publisher:  Fordham University Press, New York, NY

    "Pagan life seduces me a little more with each passing day. If it were possible today, I would change my religion and would joyfully embrace poetic paganism," wrote the Armenian poet Daniel Varuzhan in 1908. During the seven years that remained in... more

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    "Pagan life seduces me a little more with each passing day. If it were possible today, I would change my religion and would joyfully embrace poetic paganism," wrote the Armenian poet Daniel Varuzhan in 1908. During the seven years that remained in his life, he wrote largely in this "pagan" vein. If it was an artistic endeavour, why then should art be defined in reference to religion? And which religion precisely? Was Varuzhan echoing Schelling's Philosophy of Art?Mourning Philology draws on Varuzhan and his work to present a history of the national imagination, which is also a history of national philology, as a reaction to the two main philological inventions of the nineteenth century: mythological religion and the native. In its first part, the book thus gives an account of the successive stages of orientalist philology. The last episode in this story of national emergence took place in 1914 in Constantinople, when the literary journal Mehyan gathered around Varuzhan the great names to come of Armenian literature in the diaspora

     
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    Subjects: Armenian literature; Mythological religion; Nationalism; Orientalism; Ottoman empire; Philology; Philosophy of art; LITERARY CRITICISM / General; Armenian literature; Art and literature; Religion and literature; Religion and literature
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  22. Becoming Christian
    Race, Reformation, and Early Modern English Romance
    Author: Britton, Dennis Austin
    Published: [2014]; © 2014
    Publisher:  Fordham University Press, New York, NY

    Becoming Christian argues that romance narratives of Jews and Muslims converting to Christianity register theological formations of race in post-Reformation England. The medieval motif of infidel conversion came under scrutiny as Protestant theology... more

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    Becoming Christian argues that romance narratives of Jews and Muslims converting to Christianity register theological formations of race in post-Reformation England. The medieval motif of infidel conversion came under scrutiny as Protestant theology radically reconfigured how individuals acquire religious identities.Whereas Catholicism had asserted that Christian identity begins with baptism, numerous theologians in the Church of England denied the necessity of baptism and instead treated Christian identity as a racial characteristic passed from parents to their children. The church thereby developed a theology that both transformed a nation into a Christian race and created skepticism about the possibility of conversion. Race became a matter of salvation and damnation.Britton intervenes in critical debates about the intersections of race and religion, as well as in discussions of the social implications of romance. Examining English translations of Calvin, treatises on the sacraments, catechisms, and sermons alongside works by Edmund Spenser, John Harrington, William Shakespeare, John Fletcher, and Phillip Massinger, Becoming Christian demonstrates how a theology of race altered a nation’s imagination and literary landscape

     
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    Subjects: Baptism; Church of England; Edmund Spenser; English literature; Jews; Muslims; Race; Romance; William Shakespeare; conversion; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Christians in literature; Conversion in literature; Conversion; English literature; Jews in literature; Muslims in literature; Race in literature; Religion and literature; Religion and literature
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  23. Infinite variety
    literary invention, theology, and the disorder of kinds, 1688-1730
    Author: Schmidgen, Wolfram
    Published: [2021]; © 2021
    Publisher:  University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia

    Unnerved by the upheavals of the seventeenth century, English writers including Thomas Hobbes, Richard Blackmore, John Locke, Jonathan Swift, and Daniel Defoe came to accept that disorder, rather than order, was the natural state of things. They were... more

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    Unnerved by the upheavals of the seventeenth century, English writers including Thomas Hobbes, Richard Blackmore, John Locke, Jonathan Swift, and Daniel Defoe came to accept that disorder, rather than order, was the natural state of things. They were drawn to voluntarism, a theology that emphasized a willful creator and denied that nature embodied truth and beauty. Voluntarism, Wolfram Schmidgen contends, provided both theological framework and aesthetic license. In Infinite Variety, he reconstructs this voluntarist tradition of literary invention.Once one accepted that creation was willful and order arbitrary, Schmidgen argues, existing hierarchies of kind lost their normative value. Literary invention could be radicalized as a result. Acknowledging that the will drives creation, such writers as Blackmore and Locke inverted the rules of composition and let energy dominate structure, matter create form, and parts be valued over the whole. In literary, religious, and philosophical works, voluntarism authorized the move beyond the natural toward the deformed, the infinite, and the counterfactual.In reclaiming ontology as an explanatory context for literary invention, Infinite Variety offers a brilliantly learned analysis of an aesthetic framed not by the rise of secularism, but by its opposite. It is a book that articulates how religious belief shaped modern literary practices, including novelistic realism, and one that will be of interest to anyone who thinks seriously about the relationship between literature, religion, and philosophy

     
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  24. Ruin the Sacred Truths
    Poetry and Belief from the Bible to the Present
    Author: Bloom, Harold
    Published: [2022]; © 1989
    Publisher:  Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA

    Harold Bloom surveys with majestic view the literature of the West from the Old Testament to Samuel Beckett. He provocatively rereads the Yahwist (or J) writer, Jeremiah, Job, Jonah, the Iliad, the Aeneid, Dante's Divine Comedy, Hamlet, King Lear,... more

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    Harold Bloom surveys with majestic view the literature of the West from the Old Testament to Samuel Beckett. He provocatively rereads the Yahwist (or J) writer, Jeremiah, Job, Jonah, the Iliad, the Aeneid, Dante's Divine Comedy, Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, the Henry IV plays, Paradise Lost, Blake's Milton, Wordsworth's Prelude, and works by Freud, Kafka, and Beckett. In so doing, he uncovers the truth that all our attempts to call any strong work more sacred than another are merely political and social formulations. This is criticism at its best

     
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    ISBN: 9780674023109
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    Series: The Charles Eliot Norton Lectures
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry; Canon (Literature); Criticism; Poetry; Poésie religieuse; Religion and literature
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  25. Patrick White and the religious imagination
    Arthur's dream
    Author: Giffin, Michael
    Published: 1999
    Publisher:  Mellen, Lewiston, NY [u.a.]

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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Contributor: Giffin, Michael
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
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    ISBN: 0773481710
    Series: Studies in art and religious interpretation ; v. 25
    Subjects: Fiction; Religion and literature
    Other subjects: White, Patrick
    Scope: xii, 268 p, ill, 24 cm
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    Originally published: Arthur's dream. Paddington, N.S.W., Australia : Spaniel Books, 1996

    Includes bibliographical references (p. 253-262) and indexes