Religion and Literature: History and Method

Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-90-04-42054-0
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 114 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 181 g

Reihe: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences / Brill Research Perspectives in Religion and the Arts

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ziolkowski, Eric

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Religion and Literature: History and Method

Eric Ziolkowski

Abstract

Keywords

1 Introduction

2 Homo Religiosus and Homo Litterarius

3 “Religion”

4 “Literature”

5 Scott as Locative Placer of Theology and Literature

6 Transformation of Theology and Literature to Religion and Literature, and Expanding Scope

7 Defining and Categorizing Religion “and” Literature

8 Origins and Development of the Approach

9 Religion, Myth, and Literature

10 Study of Biblical Reception

11 From Theology and Literature to Religion and Literature

12 Subversion of the Concepts of “Religion” and “Literature”

13 Institutionalization and Internationalization

14 Looking Futureward

15 Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Eric Ziolkowski, Ph.D. (1987), University of Chicago, is Helen H. P. Manson Professor of Bible at Lafayette College. He has authored numerous books and articles in the comparative study of religion and literature, including The Literary Kierkegaard (Northwestern UP, 2011).