Religion and Literature: History and Method

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 au...

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Published in:Brill research perspectives in religion and the arts
Main Author: Ziolkowski, Eric Jozef 1958- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill [2019]
In: Brill research perspectives in religion and the arts
Further subjects:B Cognitive Science
B literature and theology
B Biblical Reception
B comparativism
B Globalization
B Bible
B Interdisciplinarity
B myth criticism
B Hermeneutics
B Religion and literature
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Summary: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. This overview considers the origins and history of, and methods employed in, that scholarly enterprise, focusing upon 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.
ISSN:2468-8878
Contains:Enthalten in: Brill research perspectives in religion and the arts
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1163/24688878-12340007