Reading the Abrahamic Faiths

Emma Mason is Professor of English and Comparative Literary Studies at the University of Warwick, UK, and an editor of Bloombury's New Directions in Religion and Literature series.

The product of a conference titled ‘Religious Identities in Literature,’ this illuminating collection of essays by a group of distinguished international scholars focuses on the intimate connection between religion, literature, and faith. Collectively, the essays aim to innovate new strategies for exploring the significance of the religious and the secular, as these animating phenomena are brought to consciousness through literary works ... Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above.

• ContentsAcknowledgementsContributorsReligion and literature1. Emma Mason: ‘Re-thinking Religion and Literature’2. Yvonne Sherwood: ‘The Hagaramic and the Abrahamic, or Abraham the non-European’3. Prasenjit Duara: ‘Abrahamic Faiths and Dialogical Transcendence’ Judaism4. Cynthia Scheinberg: ‘Introduction’5. Neta Stahl: ‘Jewish Writers and Nationalist Theology at the Fin-de-Siécle’6. Jo Carruthers: ‘Acts of Hearing in the Book of Esther’7. Tom Sperlinger: ‘“Every human being is a cause”: Three re-writings of Abraham, Isaac and Ishmael’Christianity8. Josh King: ‘Introduction’9. Adriaan van Klinken: ‘The Black Messiah, or Christianity and Masculinity in Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s The River Between’10. Mate Vince: ‘“Tongue far from heart”: Disguises, Lies and Casuistry in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure’11. Arina Cirstea: ‘Joy, Doubt and Wonder: Contemporary Readings of the Annunciation’Islam12. Ziauddin Sardar: ‘Introduction’13. Aamer Hussein: ‘The Man from Beni Mora’14. Ziad Elmarsafy: ‘On Naguib Mahfouz’s Late Style: Remembering Art, Remembering the Self’ 15. Maryam Farahani: ‘Sufism and Pain: Poetic Procrastination of Unity in Classical Persian Verse Narratives’Post-Secularism16. Anthony Paul Smith: ‘Introduction’17. Daniel Whistler: ‘The Categories of Secular Time’18. Nazry Bahrawi: ‘Not my Bible’s keeper: Saramago’s Cain translates postsecular dissent’19. Manav Ratti, ‘The Postsecular and the Postcolonial’20. Susan Bassnett, ‘Afterword’