Daniel Boscaljon is the author of Vigilant Faith, editor of Resisting the Place of Belonging and Hope and the Longing for Utopia, and author of several articles. He has taught several courses in theology, literature, philosophy, and interdisciplinary humanities as contingent faculty in the Midwest.Alan Levinovitz is associate professor of religious studies at James Madison University. He focuses on classical Chinese philosophy, religion and literature, and religion and medicine. He authored The Limits of Religious Tolerance and several journal articles. His journalism has appeared in Wired, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Vox, Slate, and elsewhere.

"A timely collection of essays reckoning the historical spirit and future relevance of religion and literature, considerations offered with perspectives both limber in style and widely ranging in reach." --David Scott Arnold, Oregon State University

• List of ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Teaching Religion and LiteratureDANIEL BOSCALJON AND ALAN LEVINOVITZPART IFoundational Approaches to Religion and Literature1 Teaching "Religion and Literature" ContextuallyWESLEY A. KORT2 Teaching the Bible and LiteratureDAVID JASPER3 Pedagogies of Religion and Literature, Or Writing the "And": Nathan Scott, Paul Ricoeur, Jacques DerridaRICHARD A. ROSENGARTEN4 Openings and Closures in Religion and Literature: Heart of Darkness or Demian, Life of Pi or Something NewLARRY D. BOUCHARDPART IIIlluminating Religious Cultures with Literature5 Surrender to God, Surrender to Love: Teaching Islam through the Poetry of Jalaluddin RumiDANIELLE WIDMANN ABRAHAM6 Using Fiction to "Explain" the Daoist Zhuang ZiALAN LEVINOVITZ7 Redeeming the Human Reality: Teaching African American Religion and LiteratureKIMBERLY RAE CONNOR8 Science Fiction and the Religious Imagination: A Pedagogical Approach JENNIFER ARDEN STONEPART IIIThematic Approaches to Religion and Literature9 Opening the Secular: Teaching Religion and Culture through FictionDANIEL BOSCALJON10 Interrogating Faith: Using Literature to Teach Religion and NatureNANCY MENNING11 Contesting and Contextualizing Islam in America: Teaching Three Cups of TeaMICHAEL BALTUTIS12 Religion and the Self: Life Writing as a Literary Form and Religious PracticeJOHN D. BARBOURPART IVThree Approaches to Teaching Siddhartha13 Through a Buddhist Lens: Hermann Hesse’s SiddharthaCATHERINE BENTON14 Love and Apotheosis in Hesse’s SiddharthaPAUL FISCHER15 Literature, Learning and Liberation: Teaching Hermann Hesse’s SiddharthaPETER ROBERTSIndex

Daniel Boscaljon is the author of Vigilant Faith, editor of Resisting the Place of Belonging and Hope and the Longing for Utopia, and author of several articles. He has taught several courses in theology, literature, philosophy, and interdisciplinary humanities as contingent faculty in the Midwest.Alan Levinovitz is associate professor of religious studies at James Madison University. He focuses on classical Chinese philosophy, religion and literature, and religion and medicine. He authored The Limits of Religious Tolerance and several journal articles. His journalism has appeared in Wired, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Vox, Slate, and elsewhere.

"A timely collection of essays reckoning the historical spirit and future relevance of religion and literature, considerations offered with perspectives both limber in style and widely ranging in reach." --David Scott Arnold, Oregon State University

• List of ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Teaching Religion and LiteratureDANIEL BOSCALJON AND ALAN LEVINOVITZPART IFoundational Approaches to Religion and Literature1 Teaching "Religion and Literature" ContextuallyWESLEY A. KORT2 Teaching the Bible and LiteratureDAVID JASPER3 Pedagogies of Religion and Literature, Or Writing the "And": Nathan Scott, Paul Ricoeur, Jacques DerridaRICHARD A. ROSENGARTEN4 Openings and Closures in Religion and Literature: Heart of Darkness or Demian, Life of Pi or Something NewLARRY D. BOUCHARDPART IIIlluminating Religious Cultures with Literature5 Surrender to God, Surrender to Love: Teaching Islam through the Poetry of Jalaluddin RumiDANIELLE WIDMANN ABRAHAM6 Using Fiction to "Explain" the Daoist Zhuang ZiALAN LEVINOVITZ7 Redeeming the Human Reality: Teaching African American Religion and LiteratureKIMBERLY RAE CONNOR8 Science Fiction and the Religious Imagination: A Pedagogical Approach JENNIFER ARDEN STONEPART IIIThematic Approaches to Religion and Literature9 Opening the Secular: Teaching Religion and Culture through FictionDANIEL BOSCALJON10 Interrogating Faith: Using Literature to Teach Religion and NatureNANCY MENNING11 Contesting and Contextualizing Islam in America: Teaching Three Cups of TeaMICHAEL BALTUTIS12 Religion and the Self: Life Writing as a Literary Form and Religious PracticeJOHN D. BARBOURPART IVThree Approaches to Teaching Siddhartha13 Through a Buddhist Lens: Hermann Hesse’s SiddharthaCATHERINE BENTON14 Love and Apotheosis in Hesse’s SiddharthaPAUL FISCHER15 Literature, Learning and Liberation: Teaching Hermann Hesse’s SiddharthaPETER ROBERTSIndex

Daniel Boscaljon is the author of Vigilant Faith, editor of Resisting the Place of Belonging and Hope and the Longing for Utopia, and author of several articles. He has taught several courses in theology, literature, philosophy, and interdisciplinary humanities as contingent faculty in the Midwest.Alan Levinovitz is associate professor of religious studies at James Madison University. He focuses on classical Chinese philosophy, religion and literature, and religion and medicine. He authored The Limits of Religious Tolerance and several journal articles. His journalism has appeared in Wired, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Vox, Slate, and elsewhere.

"A timely collection of essays reckoning the historical spirit and future relevance of religion and literature, considerations offered with perspectives both limber in style and widely ranging in reach." --David Scott Arnold, Oregon State University

• List of ContributorsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Teaching Religion and LiteratureDANIEL BOSCALJON AND ALAN LEVINOVITZPART IFoundational Approaches to Religion and Literature1 Teaching "Religion and Literature" ContextuallyWESLEY A. KORT2 Teaching the Bible and LiteratureDAVID JASPER3 Pedagogies of Religion and Literature, Or Writing the "And": Nathan Scott, Paul Ricoeur, Jacques DerridaRICHARD A. ROSENGARTEN4 Openings and Closures in Religion and Literature: Heart of Darkness or Demian, Life of Pi or Something NewLARRY D. BOUCHARDPART IIIlluminating Religious Cultures with Literature5 Surrender to God, Surrender to Love: Teaching Islam through the Poetry of Jalaluddin RumiDANIELLE WIDMANN ABRAHAM6 Using Fiction to "Explain" the Daoist Zhuang ZiALAN LEVINOVITZ7 Redeeming the Human Reality: Teaching African American Religion and LiteratureKIMBERLY RAE CONNOR8 Science Fiction and the Religious Imagination: A Pedagogical Approach JENNIFER ARDEN STONEPART IIIThematic Approaches to Religion and Literature9 Opening the Secular: Teaching Religion and Culture through FictionDANIEL BOSCALJON10 Interrogating Faith: Using Literature to Teach Religion and NatureNANCY MENNING11 Contesting and Contextualizing Islam in America: Teaching Three Cups of TeaMICHAEL BALTUTIS12 Religion and the Self: Life Writing as a Literary Form and Religious PracticeJOHN D. BARBOURPART IVThree Approaches to Teaching Siddhartha13 Through a Buddhist Lens: Hermann Hesse’s SiddharthaCATHERINE BENTON14 Love and Apotheosis in Hesse’s SiddharthaPAUL FISCHER15 Literature, Learning and Liberation: Teaching Hermann Hesse’s SiddharthaPETER ROBERTSIndex