Fault Lines of Modernity
Subtitle: The Fractures and Repairs of Religion, Ethics, and Literature
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781501316654
Subjects: Modernism (literature); Religion and literature; Religious ethics
Description: "This state of the art collection offers fresh perspectives on why intersections between literature, religion, and ethics can address the fault lines of modernity and are not necessarily the cause of modernity's 'faults.' From a diverse cohort of scholars from around the world, with appointments in comparative literature and other disciplines, the essays suggest that the imagined hegemony of a Judeo-Christian Western project is neither exclusively true nor productive. However, the essays also suggest that elements of the Western religious traditions are important vectors for understanding modernity's complicated relationship to the past."--Bloomsbury Publishing.