Teaching religion and literature. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Daniel Boscaljon, Alan Levinovitz.
• Editors: Boscaljon, Daniel; Levinovitz, Alan
• Contents: List of Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: Teaching Religion and Literature DANIEL BOSCALJON AND ALAN LEVINOVITZ PART I Foundational Approaches to Religion and Literature 1 Teaching "Religion and Literature" Contextually WESLEY A. KORT 2 Teaching the Bible and Literature DAVID JASPER 3 Pedagogies of Religion and Literature, Or Writing the "And": Nathan Scott, Paul Ricoeur, Jacques Derrida RICHARD A. ROSENGARTEN 4 Openings and Closures in Religion and Literature: Heart of Darkness or Demian, Life of Pi or Something New LARRY D. BOUCHARD PART II Illuminating Religious Cultures with Literature 5 Surrender to God, Surrender to Love: Teaching Islam through the Poetry of Jalaluddin Rumi DANIELLE WIDMANN ABRAHAM 6 Using Fiction to "Explain" the Daoist Zhuang Zi ALAN LEVINOVITZ 7 Redeeming the Human Reality: Teaching African American Religion and Literature KIMBERLY RAE CONNOR 8 Science Fiction and the Religious Imagination: A Pedagogical Approach JENNIFER ARDEN STONE PART III Thematic Approaches to Religion and Literature 9 Opening the Secular: Teaching Religion and Culture through Fiction DANIEL BOSCALJON 10 Interrogating Faith: Using Literature to Teach Religion and Nature NANCY MENNING 11 Contesting and Contextualizing Islam in America: Teaching Three Cups of Tea MICHAEL BALTUTIS 12 Religion and the Self: Life Writing as a Literary Form and Religious Practice JOHN D. BARBOUR PART IV Three Approaches to Teaching Siddhartha 13 Through a Buddhist Lens: Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha CATHERINE BENTON 14 Love and Apotheosis in Hesse’s Siddhartha PAUL FISCHER 15 Literature, Learning and Liberation: Teaching Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha PETER ROBERTS Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 820.9382; Religion and literature -- Study and teaching (Higher); English literature -- Study and teaching (Higher); Religion -- Study and teaching (Higher); Religion in literature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780429877179; 9780429877186; 9780429877162; 9780429464959
• Related ISBNs: 9781138587908; 9781138612709
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