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Author:   Emma Mason (University of Warwick, UK)
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint:   Bloomsbury Academic
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.435kg
ISBN:  

9781350003743

ISBN 10:   1350003743
Pages:   312
Publication Date:   25 August 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Contents Acknowledgements Contributors Religion and literature 1. Emma Mason: 'Re-thinking Religion and Literature' 2. Yvonne Sherwood: 'The Hagaramic and the Abrahamic, or Abraham the non-European' 3. Prasenjit Duara: 'Abrahamic Faiths and Dialogical Transcendence' Judaism 4. Cynthia Scheinberg: 'Introduction' 5. Neta Stahl: 'Jewish Writers and Nationalist Theology at the Fin-de-Siecle' 6. Jo Carruthers: 'Acts of Hearing in the Book of Esther' 7. Tom Sperlinger: ' Every human being is a cause : Three re-writings of Abraham, Isaac and Ishmael' Christianity 8. Josh King: 'Introduction' 9. Adriaan van Klinken: 'The Black Messiah, or Christianity and Masculinity in Ngugi wa Thiong'o's The River Between' 10. Mate Vince: ' Tongue far from heart : Disguises, Lies and Casuistry in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure' 11. Arina Cirstea: 'Joy, Doubt and Wonder: Contemporary Readings of the Annunciation' Islam 12. Ziauddin Sardar: 'Introduction' 13. Aamer Hussein: 'The Man from Beni Mora' 14. Ziad Elmarsafy: 'On Naguib Mahfouz's Late Style: Remembering Art, Remembering the Self' 15. Maryam Farahani: 'Sufism and Pain: Poetic Procrastination of Unity in Classical Persian Verse Narratives' Post-Secularism 16. Anthony Paul Smith: 'Introduction' 17. Daniel Whistler: 'The Categories of Secular Time' 18. Nazry Bahrawi: 'Not my Bible's keeper: Saramago's Cain translates postsecular dissent' 19. Manav Ratti, 'The Postsecular and the Postcolonial' 20. Susan Bassnett, 'Afterword'

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The product of a conference titled 'Religious Identities in Literature,' this illuminating collection of essays by a group of distinguished international scholars focuses on the intimate connection between religion, literature, and faith. Collectively, the essays aim to innovate new strategies for exploring the significance of the religious and the secular, as these animating phenomena are brought to consciousness through literary works ... Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. -- H. I. Einsohn, Middlesex Community College * CHOICE *

The product of a conference titled 'Religious Identities in Literature,' this illuminating collection of essays by a group of distinguished international scholars focuses on the intimate connection between religion, literature, and faith. Collectively, the essays aim to innovate new strategies for exploring the significance of the religious and the secular, as these animating phenomena are brought to consciousness through literary works ... Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. -- H. I. Einsohn, Middlesex Community College CHOICE

Author Information

Emma Mason is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick, UK, and an editor of Bloombury's New Directions in Religion and Literature series.

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