An Introduction to Religion and Literature

by Mark Knight

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826497020
• ISBN13: 9780826497024
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.0"