Literature and Religious Experience: Beyond Belief and Unbelief

Literature and Religious Experience: Beyond Belief and Unbelief This book challenges the status quo of studies in literature and religion by returning to 'experience' as a bridge between theory and practice. Essays focus on keywords of religious experience and demonstrate their applications in drama, fiction, and poetry.Each chapter explores the broad significance of its keyword as a category of psychological and social behavior and tracks its unique articulation by individual authors, including Conrad, Beecher Stowe and Melville. Together, the chapters construct a critical foundation for studying literature not only from the perspectives of theology and historicism but from the ways that literary experience reflects, reinforces, and sometimes challenges religious experience. Autor: Matthew J. Smith, Caleb D. Spencer Wydawnictwo: Bloomsbury Academic Rok wydania: 2023 Okładka: miękka Liczba stron: 312 Wymiary: 23.4 x 15.6 x 1.5 cm Język: angielski ISBN: 9781350194021