RT Book
T1 Reading Heresy: Religion and Dissent in Literature and Art
A1 Erickson, Gregory
A2 Schweizer, Bernard 1962-
LA English
PP Berlin/Boston
PB De Gruyter, Inc.
YR 2017
UL https://ixtheo.de/Record/1007355638
AB Heresy studies is a new interdisciplinary, supra-religious, and humanist field of study that focuses on borderlands of dogma, probes the intersections between orthodoxy and heterodoxy, and explores the realms of dissent in religion, art, and literature. Free from confessional agendas and tolerant of both religious and non-religious perspectives, heresy studies fulfill an important gap in scholarly inquiry and artistic production. Divided into four parts, the volume explores intersections between heresy and modern literature, it discusses intricacies of medieval heresies, it analyzes issues of heresy in contemporary theology, and it demonstrates how heresy operates in artistic and literature creativity today. Rather than treating matters of heresy, blasphemy, unbelief, dissent, and non-conformism as subjects to be shunned or naively championed, the essays in this collection chart a middle course, energized by the dynamics of heterodoxy, dissent, and provocation, yet shining a critical light on both the challenges and the revelations of disruptive kinds of thinking and acting.  Gregory Erickson, New York University, U.S.A and Bernard Schweizer, Long Island University, New York, U.S.A.
OP 226
CN 179.5
SN 9783110556827
K1 Blasphemy
K1 Dissensi
K1 Electronic books
K1 Konferenzschrift : 2014 : New York, NY