Beschreibung
This collection of essays considers the return of the religious in contemporary literary studies. In the twenty-first century it is now possible to detect a new sacred ‘turn’ in thought and writing. For some writers, this post-secular identity plays itself out in both a recuperation of religious traditions (Catholicism, Puritanism, Judaism) and a re-invention of the religious imaginary (apophaticism, messianism, apocalypticism, fundamentalism). In literary studies, the implications of the post-secular are revitalizing critical engagement with canonical works and fuelling the reclaiming of neglected writings as questions of the construction of spiritual identities come once again to the fore.
Autorenportrait
The Editors: Jo Carruthers is RCUK Academic Fellow in Place and Space at the University of Bristol and works across the disciplines of literary and religious studies. She has published on the Book of Esther as well as the reception of the Bible in literary and nationalist contexts and is the author of Esther through the Centuries (2008).
Andrew Tate is Senior Lecturer at Lancaster University. His two books, Douglas Coupland (2007) and Contemporary Fiction and Christianity (2008), reflect his interest in postmodern fiction, theory and spirituality.
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