For my Victorian literature course of autumn 2022, I set myself a goal of not privileging either the secularisation thesis or a potential sacramentalisation thesis, but of helping students see that serious writers almost always address the same set of foundational questions—even as, given their individuality and context, they respond to them differently, as we all do. In the Reformed Christian tradition, such foundational questions are understood to inform all academic inquiry, making all teaching and research neither religiously neutral nor radically relative. Within this context, I consider with my students the question ‘what foundational questions does the religious impulse at the heart of humankind ask?’ through a renewed reading of Genesis 1–3.
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Teaching literature after the ‘secularisation thesis’ requires both a critical recognition of the distinctly religious origins of the British Romantic movement and the intentional recovery of a wider range of authors and religious beliefs during the age. In this essay, I offer a brief consideration of disciplinary integration within higher education, with particular attention to the work of John Henry Newman, S.T. Coleridge, and Daniel Hardy. Next, I offer a case study that presents an ecofeminist reading of S.T. Coleridge’s ‘Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ with an assist from the religious scholarship of Sallie McFague. Finally, I conclude with some brief recommendations on how faculty might teach religion and literature in the classroom and, in the process, contribute to the current effort within higher education to diversify the curriculum.
{"title":"Dropping the Albatross: Teaching Religion and Literature in a Postsecular Age","authors":"Jeffrey W Barbeau","doi":"10.1093/litthe/frac029","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frac029","url":null,"abstract":"Teaching literature after the ‘secularisation thesis’ requires both a critical recognition of the distinctly religious origins of the British Romantic movement and the intentional recovery of a wider range of authors and religious beliefs during the age. In this essay, I offer a brief consideration of disciplinary integration within higher education, with particular attention to the work of John Henry Newman, S.T. Coleridge, and Daniel Hardy. Next, I offer a case study that presents an ecofeminist reading of S.T. Coleridge’s ‘Rime of the Ancient Mariner’ with an assist from the religious scholarship of Sallie McFague. Finally, I conclude with some brief recommendations on how faculty might teach religion and literature in the classroom and, in the process, contribute to the current effort within higher education to diversify the curriculum.","PeriodicalId":43172,"journal":{"name":"Literature and Theology","volume":"2009 17","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138518468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Permeable Self: Five Medieval Relationships. By Barbara Newman","authors":"Daniel Boscaljon","doi":"10.1093/litthe/frac016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frac016","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43172,"journal":{"name":"Literature and Theology","volume":"173 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"86804120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Walter Benjamin’s essay ‘Toward the Critique of Violence’ (1921) has in the past decades been central to important debates within post-secular philosophical thought. This article explores the intricate connections between legal, mythic, and divine violence in Benjamin’s essay, in light of some of his other theological, literary, and political works from the same period. It suggests that the idea of a ‘divine law-annihilating violence’ should be read in light of Benjamin’s claim that a ‘critique of violence is the philosophy of its history’. This implies amongst other things a critique of the dogma of the sanctity of mere life underlying both the Greek and the Christian tradition.
{"title":"Legal, Mythic, and Divine Violence: Post-secular Entanglements in Walter Benjamin’s ‘Toward the Critique of Violence’","authors":"Stine Holte","doi":"10.1093/litthe/frac022","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frac022","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Walter Benjamin’s essay ‘Toward the Critique of Violence’ (1921) has in the past decades been central to important debates within post-secular philosophical thought. This article explores the intricate connections between legal, mythic, and divine violence in Benjamin’s essay, in light of some of his other theological, literary, and political works from the same period. It suggests that the idea of a ‘divine law-annihilating violence’ should be read in light of Benjamin’s claim that a ‘critique of violence is the philosophy of its history’. This implies amongst other things a critique of the dogma of the sanctity of mere life underlying both the Greek and the Christian tradition.","PeriodicalId":43172,"journal":{"name":"Literature and Theology","volume":"70 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90142120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article brings Muhammad Iqbal’s Persian book of poetry, Javid Nama, into dialogue with Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s drama Nathan the Wise. In conversation with Islam’s early history, narrative traditions, and debates over the status of revelation and reason, both authors, we argue, envision religious truth as an irreducible experience that no single doctrine can lay exclusivist claims to. We demonstrate that intuition, reason, and revelation coexist as different paths toward spiritual insights in their fictional works. In different yet comparable ways, they create a fresh ontological ground for negotiating questions of divine truth and move the searching subject centre stage. Focused on deeds and actions, their reform projects promote an ethical conduct of life and acceptance among different religious groups that could not contrast more profoundly with the political reality in most Islamic countries today.
{"title":"Religious Experience, Storytelling, and Ethical Action in Muhammad Iqbal’s Javid Nama and Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s Nathan","authors":"Mariam Khan, Ulrik Wagner","doi":"10.1093/litthe/frac020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frac020","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 This article brings Muhammad Iqbal’s Persian book of poetry, Javid Nama, into dialogue with Gotthold Ephraim Lessing’s drama Nathan the Wise. In conversation with Islam’s early history, narrative traditions, and debates over the status of revelation and reason, both authors, we argue, envision religious truth as an irreducible experience that no single doctrine can lay exclusivist claims to. We demonstrate that intuition, reason, and revelation coexist as different paths toward spiritual insights in their fictional works. In different yet comparable ways, they create a fresh ontological ground for negotiating questions of divine truth and move the searching subject centre stage. Focused on deeds and actions, their reform projects promote an ethical conduct of life and acceptance among different religious groups that could not contrast more profoundly with the political reality in most Islamic countries today.","PeriodicalId":43172,"journal":{"name":"Literature and Theology","volume":"88 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"82562357","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Dharma of Justice in the Sanskrit Epics, By Ruth Vanita","authors":"Lucky Issar","doi":"10.1093/litthe/frac023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frac023","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43172,"journal":{"name":"Literature and Theology","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-08-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"90380810","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Secret Selves: A History of Our Inner Space. By Stephen Prickett","authors":"K. Koppy","doi":"10.1093/litthe/frac021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frac021","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43172,"journal":{"name":"Literature and Theology","volume":"120 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-08-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75387819","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sacred Modes of Being in a Postsecular World, Edited by Andrew W. Hass","authors":"W. Franke","doi":"10.1093/litthe/frac015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frac015","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43172,"journal":{"name":"Literature and Theology","volume":"45 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"80787076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dao Jing Ying Yi Shi (The History of the English Translation of the Daoist Scriptures), By Senlin Yu","authors":"Ziqiang Zhao","doi":"10.1093/litthe/frac014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frac014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43172,"journal":{"name":"Literature and Theology","volume":"83 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77042768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Everlasting People: G.K. Chesterton and the First Nations, By Matthew J. Milliner","authors":"M. R. Anderson","doi":"10.1093/litthe/frac018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frac018","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43172,"journal":{"name":"Literature and Theology","volume":"423 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84931476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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