Religious experience and reflection have always engendered poetry and literature, prompting the imagination and moving beyond speculative thought. In this anthology, the editors address the common origins and various stages in the development of religious expression and literature, as well as the various interpretive methods that have been used to explain these literary texts.
Religious experience and reflection have always engendered poetry and literature, prompting the imagination and moving beyond speculative thought. In this anthology, the editors address the common origins and various stages in the development of religious expression and literature, as well as the various interpretive methods that have been used...
Preface ix Introduction xi Further Reading xv History of the Field and Theoretical Issues 1(16) The Lyrical Ballads 3(2) William Wordsworth The Life of Jesus Critically Examined 5(1) David Friedrich Strauss ``The Study of Poetry 6(2) Matthew Arnold The Point of View for My Work as an Author 8(2) Soren Kierkegaard ``Religion and Literature 10(2) T. S. Eliot Theology of Culture 12(1) Paul Tillich The Wild Prayer of Longing 13(1) Nathan A. Scott, Jr. The Great Code: The Bible and Literature 14(3) Northrop Frye Further Reading 16(1) The Exploration of Origins 17(22) The Book of Genesis 19(4) The Gospel of John 23(1) Popol Vuh 24(2) ``The Woman Who Fell from the Sky 26(2) Metamorphoses 28(4) Ovid Extracts from Adams Diary 32(2) Mark Twain ``Ode 34(1) Joseph Addison ``The Man Who Died 34(2) D. H. Lawrence The Presence of the Word 36(3) Walter Ong Further Reading 38(1) The Interpretive Tradition of Literature and Religion 39(21) Psalm 130, Ezekiel 3, Revelation 10 41(3) Augustine of Hippo, The City of God 44(1) Hildegard of Bingen, Scivias 45(3) Teresa of Avila, The Interior Castle 48(2) Table Talk 50(2) Martin Luther Fear and Trembling 52(1) Soren Kierkegaard The Gift of Death 53(2) Jacques Derrida ``Jachid and Jechidah 55(2) Isaac Bashevis Singer ``The Bible and the Imagination 57(3) Paul Ricoeur Further Reading 58(2) The Language and Literature of Worship 60(21) Matthew 26:17-29; Luke 22:7-23 62(1) The Bacchae of Euripides: A Communion Rite 63(3) Wole Soyinka Jewish and Christian Prayers 66(3) Prasna Upanishad 69(1) Julian of Norwich, Revelations of Divine Love 70(2) The Seven Storey Mountain 72(2) Thomas Merton ``Batter my heart, three-personed God 74(1) John Donne ``Love 75(1) George Herbert Moby Dick: Or the Whale 76(2) Herman Melville A Month of Sundays 78(3) John Updike Further Reading 80(1) The Literary Structures of Religious Text Genres 81(25) The Book of Job 83(1) J. B. 84(2) Archibald MacLeish Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners 86(3) John Bunyan The Book of Ezekiel 89(1) ``And did those feet in ancient time 90(1) William Blake Riders in the Chariot 91(2) Patrick White Susanna/The Book of Daniel 93(3) Alls Well That Ends Well 96(1) William Shakespeare The Parable of Simeon and Bar Kappara 97(1) The Trial 98(2) Franz Kafka The Gospel of Mark 100(1) ``The Gospel According to Mark 100(3) Jorge Luis Borges ``The `Sacred Text and the Community 103(3) Paul Ricoeur Further Reading 105(1) Religious Dimensions of Literary Text Genres 106(21) Intimations of Christianity among the Ancient Greeks 109(2) Simone Weil Paradise Lost 111(1) John Milton Faust 112(3) J. W. von Goethe ``The Garden of Love 115(1) William Blake Augustine of Hippo, Confessions 116(2) ``Lady Lazarus 118(2) Sylvia Plath ``Title divine---is mine! 120(1) Emily Dickinson ``The Second Coming 121(1) William Butler Yeats Under the Volcano 122(2) Malcolm Lowry ``Liquid Paper, ``M3 124(3) Peter Meinke Further Reading 126(1) The Great Themes of Literature and Religion 127(28) Death Metamorphoses 130(2) Ovid ``Because I could not stop for Death 132(1) Emily Dickinson Murder in the Cathedral 133(3) T. S. Eliot Conversion and Ecstasy The Acts of the Apostles 136(1) Augustine of Hippo, Confessions 137(2) Go Tell It on the Mountain 139(2) James Baldwin Love and Evil ``Adams Curse 141(1) William Butler Yeats Paradise Lost 142(2) John Milton Night 144(1) Elie Wiesel Visions of the End The Book of Daniel 145(3) The Atrocity Exhibition 148(2) J. G. Ballard ``Kubla Khan 150(2) Samuel Taylor Coleridge Wise Blood 152(3) Flannery OConnor Further Reading 154(1) Interactions: New Challenges to and from Other Fields 155(19) Socio-Politics of the Body, Race, Sexually, and Age The Wild Girl 157(1) Michele Roberts Beloved 158(1) Toni Morrison ``Sister Outsider 159(1) Audre Lorde Life after God 160(2) Douglas Coupland Science ``All at One Point 162(2) Italo Calvino ``The Land of Hearts Desire 164(1) Tamiki Hara Nots 165(2) Mark C. Taylor Intermediality ``Overpopulation and Art 167(2) John Cage The Sexuality of Christ in Renaissance Art and in Modern Oblivion 169(2) Leo Steinberg Postmodern Fiction and Literature Malone Dies 171(1) Samuel Beckett The Book of Margins 171(3) Edmond Jabes Further Reading 172(2) Postscript: From Modernism to Postmodernism 174(5) Study Questions 179(5) Acknowledgments 184
