Community Religion And Literature

Author : Cleanth Brooks
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826209931
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Community, Religion, and Literature written by Cleanth Brooks and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the last collection of Cleanth Brooks's essays before his death, Community, Religion, and Literature represents his final, considered views on the reading of literature and the role it plays in our society. He argues that the proper and essential role of literature lies in giving us our sense of community. Yet he denounces the extent to which literature, too, is now being usurped by the critics who see writing as pure language. He believes that just as religion renders truth of another sort, so literature is an expression of the "truth about human beings." More and more in this age of science, literature has "assumed the burden of providing civilization with its values." Community, Religion, and Literature offers students of literature the opportunity to understand what Cleanth Brooks was actually saying, rather than what others have said he was saying.

Author : Mark Knight
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1441117873
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Religion and Literature written by Mark Knight and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2009-01-15 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Keith Ward
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191661473
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and Community written by Keith Ward and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-03-02 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion is an important social force, both for good and evil, in the modern world. In the final volume of his comparative theology, Keith Ward considers the main ways in which religion and society interact, and the ways in which the major world religions need to adapt themselves in the modern world. These religions are examined as forms of social life, ranging from communities which seek to renounce the world, to those which seek to embody the laws of God in society, those which see religions in critical dialogue with social structures, and those which see religion as a primarily individual matter. The ideas of eretz Yisrael, the umma of Islam, the Buddhist sangha, the Christian church, and the Hindu sampradaya are critically analysed. Ward also considers the doctrine of the church in Aquinas, Calvin, Schleiermacher, and Tillich, and develops a view of the church in a global perspective by means of both a historical and thematic approach. He proposes a radical vision of the church as a person-affirming, world-transforming society in the emerging global community of many faiths and cultures. The relation of religious belief and morality, and the ambiguous role of religion in society, is investigated, and the need for a new religious paradigm is defended, expressing a global perspective without insistence on uniformity.

Author : Robert Detweiler
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
ISBN 13 : 9780664258467
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and Literature written by Robert Detweiler and published by Westminster John Knox Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Moshe Blidstein
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019879195X
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Purity, Community, and Ritual in Early Christian Literature written by Moshe Blidstein and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examines how early Christian writers drew on ancient Jewish and Greco-Roman traditions to develop their own ideas about purity, purification, defilement, and disgust.

Author : Pankaj Jain
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317151607
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dharma and Ecology of Hindu Communities written by Pankaj Jain and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Indic religious traditions, a number of rituals and myths exist in which the environment is revered. Despite this nature worship in India, its natural resources are under heavy pressure with its growing economy and exploding population. This has led several scholars to raise questions about the role religious communities can play in environmentalism. Does nature worship inspire Hindus to act in an environmentally conscious way? This book explores the above questions with three communities, the Swadhyaya movement, the Bishnoi, and the Bhil communities. Presenting the texts of Bishnois, their environmental history, and their contemporary activism; investigating the Swadhyaya movement from an ecological perspective; and exploring the Bhil communities and their Sacred Groves, this book applies a non-Western hermeneutical model to interpret the religious traditions of Indic communities. With a foreword by Roger S Gottlieb.

Author : Joel Diederik Beversluis
Publisher : Conexus Press
ISBN 13 : 9780963789709
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Sourcebook for the Community of Religions written by Joel Diederik Beversluis and published by Conexus Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sourcebook of resource information about different religions, including their origins and beliefs.

Author : Keith Ward
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198752598
Total Pages : 375 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Religion and Community written by Keith Ward and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the relationship between religion and society, and discusses the ways in which the major world religions need to adapt to the modern world. Keith Ward looks at different forms of religious community, then proposes a radical vision of the church as a person-affirming, world-transforming society within the emerging global community.

Author : Anthony W. Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134786891
Total Pages : 572 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Writing and Religion in England, 1558-1689 written by Anthony W. Johnson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fruit of intensive collaboration among leading international specialists on the literature, religion and culture of early modern England, this volume examines the relationship between writing and religion in England from 1558, the year of the Elizabethan Settlement, up until the Act of Toleration of 1689. Throughout these studies, religious writing is broadly taken as being 'communicational' in the etymological sense: that is, as a medium which played a significant role in the creation or consolidation of communities. Some texts shaped or reinforced one particular kind of religious identity, whereas others fostered communities which cut across the religious borderlines which prevailed in other areas of social interaction. For a number of the scholars writing here, such communal differences correlate with different ways of drawing on the resources of cultural memory. The denominational spectrum covered ranges from several varieties of Dissent, through via media Anglicanism, to Laudianism and Roman Catholicism, and there are also glances towards heresy and the mid-seventeenth century's new atheism. With respect to the range of different genres examined, the volume spans the gamut from poetry, fictional prose, drama, court masque, sermons, devotional works, theological treatises, confessions of faith, church constitutions, tracts, and letters, to history-writing and translation. Arranged in roughly chronological order, Writing and Religion in England, 1558-1689 presents chapters which explore religious writing within the wider contexts of culture, ideas, attitudes, and law, as well as studies which concentrate more on the texts and readerships of particular writers. Several contributors embrace an inter-arts orientation, relating writing to liturgical ceremony, painting, music and architecture, while others opt for a stronger sociological slant, explicitly emphasizing the role of women writers and of writers from different sub-cultural backgrounds.

Author : John Haynes Holmes
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781330356418
Total Pages : 364 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New Churches for Old written by John Haynes Holmes and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from New Churches for Old: A Plea for Community Religion Many books are written these days on the churches. All of them recognize and lament their present pitiable plight. Most of them seek no cause other than the materialism of the age and a certain failure of the churches to keep pace with knowledge and social needs; and offer no remedy other than a general exhortation to the people to remember the importance of religion, and to the churches to bring their beliefs and methods up to date. The futility of these books is itself convincing evidence of the collapse of organized religion in our time. The present volume is concerned neither with lamentations nor exhortations. Its purpose is not to bring comfort to churches as they exist today. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.