Dear all,
We would like to introduce to you a recent publication, Reading the Abrahamic Faiths: Rethinking Religion and Literature, a collection of essays edited by Emma Mason and published earlier this year.
Starting with a group of essays on the general issues concerning the intersection of religion and literature, this collection authorizes, in its editor’s words, “a religious reading that offers an inclusive and politicized alternative to the interdiscipline of religion and literature in its exclusive and inward-facing form.”
As the plural form in the title suggests, the book deals with the plurality of the Abrahamic tradition in three separate parts: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Closing with a part on postsecularism, Mason’s book situates the discussion in a context that is of particular relevance to today’s world.
Overall, Reading the Abrahamic Faiths aims at questioning the neutrality of literary and religious studies as an interdisciplinary mode of inquiry and reinstating a connection between religion and literature that is socially, culturally and politically sensitive.
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