Research Catalog

Title

Literary canons and religious identity / edited by Erik Borgman, Bart Philipsen and Lea Verstricht.

Author

International Society for Religion, Literature, and Culture. Meeting (10th : 2000 : Nijmegen, Netherlands)

Publication

Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT, USA : Ashgate, c2004.

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Additional Authors

• Borgman, Erik, 1957-
• Heyendaal Instituut Nijmegen. Theologie en Geesteswetenschappen.
• Philipsen, Bart.
• Verstricht, Lea.

Description

xi, 222 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Subject

• Literature, Modern > History and criticism > Congresses
• Religion and literature > Congresses

Genre/Form

• Conference papers and proceedings
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Kongress.
• Nijmegen (2000)

Note

• Papers of a conference held Sept. 2000, in Nijmegen, which was the Tenth Biennual Meeting of the International Society for Religion, Literature, and Culture; the section Theology and Humanities of the Heyendaal Institute at the Catholic University at Nijmegen sponsored the conference.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction / Erik Borgman and Bart Philipsen -- 1. Religious Canon and Literary Identity / Mieke Bal -- 2. Why 'Remember Lot's wife'? Religious Identity and the Literary Canon / Elisabeth Jay -- 3. Literature and Theology -- a Mutual Challenge: Reflections on a Personal Literary Canon / Karl-Josef Kuschel -- 4. Canetti as Religionist? The Redemption of Fiction for Social Analysis in Crowds and power / William Collins Donahue -- 5. Ethics and Hermeneutics: a Question of Memory / Pamela Sue Anderson -- 6. Writing on/Living after Auschwitz / Bart Philipsen -- 7. 'Also existiert das alles wirklich so, wie wir's in der Schule gelernt haben?!' Freud's Acropolis Experience as an Encounter with the Sacred/Object of Faith / Gerda Elata-Alster.

ISBN

0754635120 (alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003041869

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library