Literature and religious experience : beyond belief and unbelief /: beyond belief and unbelief. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Matthew J. Smith, Caleb D. Spencer.
• Editors: Smith, Matthew J, 1983-; Spencer, Caleb D
• Contents: Introduction - Matthew J. Smith, Azusa Pacific University& Caleb D. Spencer, Azusa Pacific University1. Believing: Postsecular Belief and Unbelief in Marilynne Robinson's Home and James Wood's The Book Against God - Lori Branch, University of Iowa2. Benediction: Shakespeare's Post-Secular Choreography of Hope and Healing - Julia Reinhard Lupton, University of California, Irvine3. Exercise: Poetry as Spiritual Exercise: On A. R. Ammons - Kevin Hart, University of Virginia4. Fantasy: Superstition Fiction and Magic Revival in the Euro-American West and China- Zhange Ni, Virginia Polytechnic University5. Gift: The (Im)possible Conditions of Grace in Melville's Fiction - Tae Sung, California Baptist University6. Guidance: Understanding Providence in George MacDonald's Phantastes - Mark Knight, Lancaster University7. Idolatry: Power, Meaning, and Violence in Conrad and Hesse - Larry D. Bouchard, University of Virginia8. Interruption: Conversion as Event in Paul of Tarsus and Paul of Burgos - Ryan Szpiech, University of Michigan9. Kindness: King Lear and Buddhism - Unhae Langis, Independent Scholar10. Metanoia: Harriet Beecher Stowe's Artful Apprehension of Conversion in Uncle Tom's Cabin - John Gatta, Sewanee, The University of the South11. One: Poetic Love in Ibn 'Arabi - Jeffrey Sacks, University of California, Riverside12. Prayer: I will Love You in the Summer Time - Christian Wiman, Yale Divinity School13. Revelation: From Dante to Mallarmé via Shakespeare's Hamlet: The Negativity of Poetic-Prophetic Revelation in Modernity - William Franke, Vanderbilt University14. Silence: 'Why Do You Hide Your Face?': God's Silence in William Paul Young's The Shack - Christopher Douglas, University of Victoria15. Turning: Alabaster's Wager & the Experience of Conversion - James Kearney, University of California, Santa Barbara16. Vision: 'Was it a vision or a waking dream?': Rethinking Romantic Ideology - Gavin Hopps, University of St. AndrewsAfterword: Terry Eagleton, Lancaster University.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 809.93382; Religion and literature; Experience (Religion) in literature
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350193932; 9781350193925
• Related ISBNs: 9781350193918
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