Religion and Literature: History and Method

Eric Ziolkowski

Religion and Literature: History and Method

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Eric Ziolkowski Lafayette College Easton, Pennsylvania USA

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Pages:: 1–112

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004423909_002

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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.

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Religion and Literature: History and Method

Series: Brill Research Perspectives in Humanities and Social Sciences and Brill Research Perspectives in Religion and the Arts

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004423909

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 12 Dec 2019

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- Art History
  - General
- Religious Studies
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African Studies	Education	Media Studies
American Studies	History	Middle East and Islamic Studies
Ancient Near East and Egypt	Human Rights and Humanitarian Law	Musicology
Art History	International Law	Philosophy
Asian Studies	International Relations	Religious Studies
Biblical Studies	Jewish Studies	Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Biology	Languages and Linguistics	Social Sciences
Book History and Cartography	Life Sciences	Theology and World Christianity
Classical Studies	Literature and Cultural Studies

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