The study of religion and literature continues to go from strength to strength - this collection of essays offers a dynamic, lively and provocative contribution to the field and aims to map out new directions it might take.
By returning to foundational questions regarding the relation between words and worlds and the parameters of the sacred, the essays explore different ways of using interdisciplinary resources to open up our understanding of religion and literature. Contributions from some of the leading voices in the field unite to offer an important exploration of the possible worlds that the study of religion and literature imagines.

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Publisher

Continuum

Year

2009

ISBN

9781441166487

Edition

Topic

Literature

Subtopic

Literary Criticism

Index

Literature

Contents
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
1. Introduction
2. Notes toward a Supreme Addiction: The Theology Fiction of William Blake and Philip K. Dick
3. God’s Little Mountains: Young Geoffrey Hill and the Problem of Religious Poetry
4. Religion, Truth and the ‘New Aestheticism’
5. The Deconstruction of Christianity: From the Hand of God to the Hand of Man
6. Deity in Dispatches: The Crimean Beginnings of Muscular Christianity
7. Israel Zangwill, Jewish Identity and Visceral Religion
8. I Am Not Walter Benjamin
9. ‘The Oldest Dream of All’: Heaven in Contemporary Fiction
10. De Quincey’s Uses of the Bible: Biblical Time and Psychological Time
11. Re-imagining Biblical Exegesis
12. Saving Literary Criticism
Notes
Index