RT Article
T1 Religion and Literature: History and Method
JF Brill research perspectives in religion and the arts
VO 3
IS 1
SP 1
OP 112
A1 Ziolkowski, Eric Jozef 1958-
LA English
PB Brill
YR 2019
UL https://www.ixtheo.de/Record/1756005915
AB 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.
K1 Bible
K1 Biblical Reception
K1 Cognitive Science
K1 comparativism
K1 Globalization
K1 Hermeneutics
K1 Interdisciplinarity
K1 literature and theology
K1 myth criticism
K1 Religion and literature
DO 10.1163/24688878-12340007