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Literature and theology : new interdisciplinary spaces / edited by Heather Walton

Published
Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, 2011.
Physical Description
1 online resource (ix, 219 pages)
Additional Creators
Walton, Heather
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Language Note
English.
Contents
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 and 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
Summary
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.
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ISBN
9780754698524 (electronic bk.)
0754698521 (electronic bk.)
9781409400110 (hardcover ; alk. paper)
1351921959
9781351921954
1315250403
9781315250403
1283089629
9781283089623
9786613089625
6613089621
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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