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An Introduction to Religion and Literature Mark Knight

An Introduction to Religion and Literature By Mark Knight

An Introduction to Religion and Literature by Mark Knight


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Summary

Organised around important theological ideas, this book presents an introduction to the study of literature and religion. It explores theological ideas through close readings of influential literary texts.

An Introduction to Religion and Literature Summary

An Introduction to Religion and Literature by Mark Knight

Organised around important theological ideas, this is a lucid, accessible and thoughtful introduction to the study of literature and religion. Religion has always been an integral part of the literary tradition: many canonical and non-canonical texts engage extensively with religious ideas and the development of English Literature as a professional discipline began with an explicit consideration of the relationship between religion and literature. Both the recent theological turn of literary theory and the renewed political significance of religious debate in contemporary western culture have generated further interest in this interdisciplinary area.This book offers a lucid, accessible and thoughtful introduction to the study of religion and literature. The focus is on Christian theology and post-1800 British literature, although substantial reference is made to earlier writers, texts from North America and mainland Europe, and other faith positions.An Introduction to Religion and Literature is organised around important theological ideas, each of which is explored through close readings of well-known and influential literary texts. Throughout the book the reader is encouraged to think about the ways in which religion and literature combine to trace and disclose other worlds that might be seen as sacred.

About Mark Knight

Mark Knight is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Roehampton University, UK. His books include Chesterton and Evil (Fordham University Press), Biblical Religion and the Novel, 1700-2000 (co-edited with Thomas Woodman, Ashgate), and Nineteenth-Century Religion and Literature: An Introduction (co-written with Emma Mason, Oxford University Press).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Disclosing Sacred Wor(l)ds: the Doctrine of Creation and the Possible Worlds of Literature; 2. Beings in Relation: Otherness, Personhood and the Language of the Trinity; 3. Mediating the Divine: Law, Gift and Justice; 4. Interpretative Communities: Scripture, Tolerance and the People of God; 5. The Stain of Sin: Traces of Transgression in the Modern World; 6. A Hope and a Future: Suffering and Redemption in Eschatological Perspective; Bibliography; Index.

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GOR005951662
9780826497024
0826497020
An Introduction to Religion and Literature by Mark Knight
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
20090115
208
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