British Literature And Spirituality

Author : Franz Karl Wöhrer,John S. Bak
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : History
ISBN : 9783643903365

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British Literature and Spirituality by Franz Karl Wöhrer,John S. Bak Pdf

This book reflects the current state of research in the field of the spiritual in British literature, where spirituality is understood as a culturally-determined, universal phenomenon or a factuality of humanity, consisting of the living apprehension of the 'Sacred' during rare gratuitous moments of illumination. With critical essays by scholars working in various disciplines (English studies, music, the arts, psychology, theology, etc.), the book explores a corpus of encoded narratives of - as well as reflections on - the 'Sacred' in British literature, from the Late Middle Ages to the present. Multi-disciplinary in nature and interdisciplinary in method, British Literature and Spirituality illustrates the hermeneutic potential of readings that transcend the disciplinary boundaries of spiritual writings. (Series: Austria: Forschung und Wissenschaft - Literatur- und Sprachwissenschaft / Austria: Research and Science - Literature and Linguistics - Vol. 24)

Author : Allan Hepburn
Publisher : Oxford Mid-Century Studies
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019-01-29
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780198828570

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A Grain of Faith by Allan Hepburn Pdf

During and after the Second World War, there was a concerted thinking about religion in Britain. Not only were leading international thinkers of the day theologians--Ronald Niebuhr, Paul Tillich, Jacques Maritain--but leading writers contributed to discussions about religion. Graham Greene, Muriel Spark, and Barbara Pym incorporated miracles, evil, and church-going into their novels, while Louis MacNeice, T. S. Eliot, and C. S. Lewis gave radio broadcasts about the role of Christianity in contemporary society. Certainly the war revived interest in aspects of Christian life. Salvation and redemption were on many people's minds. The Ministry of Information used images of bombed churches to stoke patriotic fervour, and King George VI led a series of Days of National Prayer that coincided with crucial events in the Allied campaign. After the war and throughout the 1950s, approximately 1.4 million Britons converted to Roman Catholicism as a way of expressing their spiritual ambitions and solidarity with humanity on a world-wide scale. Religion provided one way for writers to answer the question, 'what is man?' It also afforded ways to think about social obligation and ethical engagement. Moreover, the mid-century turn to religion offered ways to articulate statehood, not from the perspective of nationhood and politics, but from the perspective of moral action and social improvement. Instead of being a retreat into seclusion and solitude, the mid-century turn to religion is a call to responsibility.

Author : Gordon Mursell
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0664225047

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English Spirituality by Gordon Mursell Pdf

This wide-ranging historical survey provides an indispensable resource for those interested in exploring, teaching, or studying English spirituality. In two stand-alone volumes, it traces history from Roman times until the year 2000. The main Christian traditions and a vast range of writers and spiritual themes, from Anglo-Saxon poems to late-modern feminist spirituality, are included. These volumes present the astonishing richness and variety of responses made by English Christians to the call of the divine during the past two thousand years.

Author : Mark Knight
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781441117878

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An Introduction to Religion and Literature by Mark Knight Pdf

Religion has always been an integral part of the literary tradition: many canonical and non-canonical texts engage extensively with religious ideas, and the development of English Literature as a professional discipline began with an explicit consideration of the relationship between religion and literature. Literature also plays an important role in religious writing, as twentieth-century work on narrative theology has acknowledged. Both the recent theological turn of literary theory and the renewed political significance of religious debate in contemporary western culture have generated further interest in this interdisciplinary area. An Introduction to Religion and Literature offers a lucid, accessible and thoughtful introduction to the study of religion and literature. While the focus is on Christian theology and post-1800 British literature, substantial reference is made to earlier writers, texts from North America and mainland Europe, and other faith positions. Each chapter takes up a major theological idea and explores it through close readings of well-known and influential literary texts.

Author : Kathie Birat,Brigitte Zaugg
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : American literature
ISBN : 3034314949

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Literature and Spirituality in the English-speaking World by Kathie Birat,Brigitte Zaugg Pdf

This book is a collection of essays exploring the impact of spirituality on American literature from the nineteenth century to the present with essays devoted to Hawthorne, Emily Dickinson, Ellen Glasgow, Leonard Cohen, Fanny Howe, Toni Morrison, Paul Auster, Margaret Atwood, Erna Brodber, Emile Durkheim and Karl Marx.

Author : Andrew Hiscock,Helen Wilcox
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 849 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780199672806

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The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern English Literature and Religion by Andrew Hiscock,Helen Wilcox Pdf

This pioneering Handbook offers a comprehensive consideration of the dynamic relationship between English literature and religion in the early modern period. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were the most turbulent times in the history of the British church - and, perhaps as a result, produced some of the greatest devotional poetry, sermons, polemics, and epics of literature in English. The early-modern interaction of rhetoric and faith is addressed in thirty-nine chapters of original research, divided into five sections. The first analyses the changes within the church from the Reformation to the establishment of the Church of England, the phenomenon of puritanism and the rise of non-conformity. The second section discusses ten genres in which faith was explored, including poetry, prophecy, drama, sermons, satire, and autobiographical writings. The middle section focuses on selected individual authors, among them Thomas More, Christopher Marlowe, John Donne, Lucy Hutchinson, and John Milton. Since authors never write in isolation, the fourth section examines a range of communities in which writers interpreted their faith: lay and religious households, sectarian groups including the Quakers, clusters of religious exiles, Jewish and Islamic communities, and those who settled in the new world. Finally, the fifth section considers some key topics and debates in early modern religious literature, ranging from ideas of authority and the relationship of body and soul, to death, judgment, and eternity. The Handbook is framed by a succinct introduction, a chronology of religious and literary landmarks, a guide for new researchers in this field, and a full bibliography of primary and secondary texts relating to early modern English literature and religion.

Author : D. Jasper
Publisher : Springer
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1989-09-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780230380004

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The Study of Literature and Religion by D. Jasper Pdf

An exploration of the relationship between literature and religion, which adopts an interdisciplinary approach, aiming to provide an introduction to the variety of ways in which literature, literary theory and theology are related.

Author : Caroline F. E. Spurgeon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 179 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-08-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107401716

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Mysticism in English Literature by Caroline F. E. Spurgeon Pdf

Beginning with a precise definition of the term mysticism, Spurgeon explores how mystical thought influenced many of England's finest writers.

Author : Jeffrey W. Barbeau
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108482844

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The Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism and Religion by Jeffrey W. Barbeau Pdf

The first survey of the connections between literature, religion, and intellectual life in the British Romantic period.

Author : Daniel T. Kline
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 646 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009-08-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780826494092

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The Medieval British Literature Handbook by Daniel T. Kline Pdf

One-stop resource for courses in medieval literature, providing students with a comprehensive guide to the historical and cultural context; major texts and movements; reading primary and critical texts; key critics, concepts and topics; major critical approaches and directions of new research.

Author : Bernard Bergonzi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Christianity and literature
ISBN : OCLC:1425493982

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Spirituality in modern English literature by Bernard Bergonzi Pdf

Author : Ian Bradley
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : UVA:X004834767

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Believing in Britain by Ian Bradley Pdf

Why is there such intense interest in the idea of 'Britishness'? Does it really matter, and what is 'Britishness' anyway? Why does the notion of 'being British' seem to have most resonance amongst recent immigrant communities? This text answers these questions by making a contribution to the contemporary debate about British identity.

Author : Ronald Blythe
Publisher : Canterbury Press Norwich
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029595175

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Ink and Spirit by Ronald Blythe Pdf

s suspicious as one often is of the other, literature and spirituality enjoy a rich and deep relationship. They have been inextricably linked since narrative and symbol first met in the earliest biblical writings. Story, poetry and drama have always been used to express the human search for religious meaning and to modulate the divine voice. Equally, 'Take Christianity out of English literature,' asks Ronald Blythe in this book, 'and what is left?' In this fascinating and spirited collection of essays the novelist Penelope Lively explores fiction writing as an act of creation with its clear spiritual resonances. A. N. Wilson inveighs against the modern church for its desecration of the language which shaped and nurtured it. The poet David Scott looks at the lonely, subversive calling of the priest-poet from Caedmon to R. S. Thomas, and Richard Marsh considers David Jones's writings in the First World War where, for many, religion turned to mud and the only way across that vast no man's land was by the same ancient way of myth and symbol, the way that literature and spirituality have travelled together since the beginning.

Author : Robert DeMaria, Jr.,Heesok Chang,Samantha Zacher
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-12-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781118731864

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A Companion to British Literature, Volume 2 by Robert DeMaria, Jr.,Heesok Chang,Samantha Zacher Pdf

A Companion to British Literature, Early Modern Literature, 1450 - 1660

Author : Andrew Hiscock,Helen Wilcox
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 720 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780191653421

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The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern English Literature and Religion by Andrew Hiscock,Helen Wilcox Pdf

This pioneering Handbook offers a comprehensive consideration of the dynamic relationship between English literature and religion in the early modern period. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were the most turbulent times in the history of the British church and, perhaps as a result, produced some of the greatest devotional poetry, sermons, polemics, and epics of literature in English. The early-modern interaction of rhetoric and faith is addressed in thirty-nine chapters of original research, divided into five sections. The first analyses the changes within the church from the Reformation to the establishment of the Church of England, the phenomenon of puritanism and the rise of non-conformity. The second section discusses ten genres in which faith was explored, including poetry, prophecy, drama, sermons, satire, and autobiographical writings. The middle section focuses on selected individual authors, among them Thomas More, Christopher Marlowe, John Donne, Lucy Hutchinson, and John Milton. Since authors never write in isolation, the fourth section examines a range of communities in which writers interpreted their faith: lay and religious households, sectarian groups including the Quakers, clusters of religious exiles, Jewish and Islamic communities, and those who settled in the new world. Finally, the fifth section considers some key topics and debates in early modern religious literature, ranging from ideas of authority and the relationship of body and soul, to death, judgment, and eternity. The Handbook is framed by a succinct introduction, a chronology of religious and literary landmarks, a guide for new researchers in this field, and a full bibliography of primary and secondary texts relating to early modern English literature and religion.