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Spiritual Identities

Literature and the Post-Secular Imagination

Andrew Tate editor Jo Carruthers editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Verlag Peter Lang

Published:30th Dec '09

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This collection of essays considers the return of the religious in contemporary literary studies. In the twenty-first century it is now possible to detect a new sacred ‘turn’ in thought and writing. For some writers, this post-secular identity plays itself out in both a recuperation of religious traditions (Catholicism, Puritanism, Judaism) and a re-invention of the religious imaginary (apophaticism, messianism, apocalypticism, fundamentalism). In literary studies, the implications of the post-secular are revitalizing critical engagement with canonical works and fuelling the reclaiming of neglected writings as questions of the construction of spiritual identities come once again to the fore.

ISBN: 9783039119257

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 360g

236 pages

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