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Literature and theology : new interdisciplinary spaces / edited by Heather Walton. - Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2011. - 1 online resource (ix, 219 pages)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Cover; Contents; Contributor Biographies; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Interdisciplinarity in Impossible Times; 2 Discipline Beyond Disciplines; 3 When Love Is Not True: Literature and Theology after Romance; 4 Two (and two, and two) Towers; 5 Silence, Rupture, Theology. Towards a Post-Christian Interdisciplinarity; 6 Female Genius: Jane Leade (1624-1704); 7 Re-imagining the Sacred in Caribbean Literature; 8 Theological Aesthetics and Beauty as Revelatory: An Interdisciplinary Assessment; 9 The Sublime and the Beautiful: Intersections between Theology and Literature 10 Touch and Trembling: Intimating Interdisciplinary Bodies11 A Story of Love and Death: Exploring Space for the Philosophical Imaginary; 12 The Devil in Disciplines; 13 Interdisciplinary Poetics; Index

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.


English.

ISBN: 9780754698524 0754698521 1351921959 9781351921954 1315250403 9781315250403 1283089629 9781283089623 9786613089625 6613089621

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Subjects--Topical Terms:
Religion and literature.
Theology in literature.
Religion et littérature.
Théologie dans la littérature.
RELIGION--Christianity--Literature & the Arts.
Religion and literature
Theology in literature

LC Class. No.: PN49 / .W29 2011eb

Dewey Class. No.: 261.5/8