Reading the Abrahamic Faiths
Subtitle: Rethinking Religion and Literature
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9781472509505
Subjects: Religion and literature; Literature, history and criticism
Description: "Rethinking religion and literature in a series of chapters by leading international scholars, Reading the Abrahamic Faiths opens up a dialogue between Jewish, Christian, Islamic and Post-Secular literary cultures. Literary studies has absorbed religion as another interdisciplinary mode of inquiry without always attending to its multifacted potential to question ideologically neutral readings of culture, belief, emotion, politics and inequality. In response, Reading the Abrahamic Faiths contributes to a reevaluation of the nexus between religion and literature that is socially, affectively and materially determined in its sensitivity to the expression of belief. Each section -- Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Post-Secularism -- is introduced by a specialist in these respective areas to introduce the critical readings of the texts and discourses that follow."--Bloomsbury Publishing.