Religion and Literature: A ReaderRobert Detweiler, David Jasper Featuring a selection from over 80 key texts, this anthology aims to help the reader to understand the common origins of religious expression and of literature. The texts included cover classical literature, the Bible, English and European classics and contemporary works. |
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... . Religion and literature . I. Jasper , David . II . Nordberg , Heidi L. III . Plate , S. Brent , 1966- IV . Title . PN49 .D44 2000 808.8'0382 - dc21 99-047561 Contents Preface Introduction Further Reading Chapter 1. History of the.
... . Religion and literature . I. Jasper , David . II . Nordberg , Heidi L. III . Plate , S. Brent , 1966- IV . Title . PN49 .D44 2000 808.8'0382 - dc21 99-047561 Contents Preface Introduction Further Reading Chapter 1. History of the.
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... Chapter 2. The Exploration of Origins 16 17 The Book of Genesis The Gospel of John Popol Vuh " The Woman Who Fell from the Sky " Ovid , Metamorphoses Joseph Addison , " Ode " 19 23 24 26 28 Mark Twain , Extracts from Adam's Diary 32 34 ...
... Chapter 2. The Exploration of Origins 16 17 The Book of Genesis The Gospel of John Popol Vuh " The Woman Who Fell from the Sky " Ovid , Metamorphoses Joseph Addison , " Ode " 19 23 24 26 28 Mark Twain , Extracts from Adam's Diary 32 34 ...
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... Chapter 4. The Language and Literature of Worship Matthew 26 : 17-29 ; Luke 22 : 7-23 Wole Soyinka , The Bacchae of Euripides : A Communion Rite 8380 60 62 63 Jewish and Christian Prayers 66 Prasna Upanishad 69 Julian of Norwich ...
... Chapter 4. The Language and Literature of Worship Matthew 26 : 17-29 ; Luke 22 : 7-23 Wole Soyinka , The Bacchae of Euripides : A Communion Rite 8380 60 62 63 Jewish and Christian Prayers 66 Prasna Upanishad 69 Julian of Norwich ...
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... Chapter 7. The Great Themes of Literature and Religion DEATH Ovid , Metamorphoses Emily Dickinson , " Because I could not stop for Death " T. S. Eliot , Murder in the Cathedral CONVERSION AND ECSTASY The Acts of the Apostles Augustine ...
... Chapter 7. The Great Themes of Literature and Religion DEATH Ovid , Metamorphoses Emily Dickinson , " Because I could not stop for Death " T. S. Eliot , Murder in the Cathedral CONVERSION AND ECSTASY The Acts of the Apostles Augustine ...
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Contents
David Friedrich Strauss The Life of Jesus Critically Examined | 5 |
Paul Tillich Theology of Culture | 12 |
The Book of Genesis | 19 |
The Woman Who Fell from the Sky | 26 |
H Lawrence The Man Who Died | 34 |
Psalm 130 Ezekiel 3 Revelation 10 | 41 |
Teresa of Avila The Interior Castle | 48 |
Martin Luther Table Talk | 50 |
Malcolm Lowry Under the Volcano | 122 |
Ovid Metamorphoses | 130 |
CONVERSION AND ECSTASY | 136 |
John Milton Paradise Lost | 142 |
J G Ballard The Atrocity Exhibition | 148 |
Further Reading | 154 |
Douglas Coupland Life after God | 160 |
INTERMEDIALITY | 167 |
John Updike A Month of Sundays | 78 |
The Parable of Simeon and Bar Kappara | 97 |
John Milton Paradise Lost | 111 |
Edmond Jabès The Book of Margins | 171 |
Acknowledgments | 184 |
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