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Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion since 1960
Amy Hungerford
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Description for Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion since 1960
Paperback. How can intense religious beliefs coexist with pluralism in America? Examining the role of the religious imagination in contemporary religious practice and in some of the best-known works of American literature, this title shows how belief for its own sake has become an answer to pluralism in a secular age. Series: 20/21. Num Pages: 240 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJP; 3JMC; DSBH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 159 x 14. Weight in Grams: 308.
How can intense religious beliefs coexist with pluralism in America today? Examining the role of the religious imagination in contemporary religious practice and in some of the best-known works of American literature from the past fifty years, Postmodern Belief shows how belief for its own sake--a belief absent of doctrine--has become an answer to pluralism in a secular age. Amy Hungerford reveals how imaginative literature and religious practices together allow novelists, poets, and critics to express the formal elements of language in transcendent terms, conferring upon words a religious value independent of meaning. Hungerford explores the work of major American ... Read more
How can intense religious beliefs coexist with pluralism in America today? Examining the role of the religious imagination in contemporary religious practice and in some of the best-known works of American literature from the past fifty years, Postmodern Belief shows how belief for its own sake--a belief absent of doctrine--has become an answer to pluralism in a secular age. Amy Hungerford reveals how imaginative literature and religious practices together allow novelists, poets, and critics to express the formal elements of language in transcendent terms, conferring upon words a religious value independent of meaning. Hungerford explores the work of major American ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Number of pages
220
Condition
New
Series
20/21
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691145754
SKU
V9780691145754
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About Amy Hungerford
Amy Hungerford is professor of English at Yale University. She is the author of "The Holocaust of Texts: Genocide, Literature, and Personification".
Reviews for Postmodern Belief: American Literature and Religion since 1960
Shortlisted for the 2011 American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence in the Textual Study of Religion "Postmodern Belief offers keen insights for the serious reader regarding current writers and their conception of the sacred."
Cliff Prewencki, Salem Press Magill Book Reviews "Hungerford's text is for scholars of contemporary literature and contemporary religion; for readers concerned about the relevance of literary ... Read more
Cliff Prewencki, Salem Press Magill Book Reviews "Hungerford's text is for scholars of contemporary literature and contemporary religion; for readers concerned about the relevance of literary ... Read more