Reading the Abrahamic faiths : rethinking religion and literature /
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London ; New York :
Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,
2015.
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Table of Contents:
- Part One Religion and Literature; 1 Rethinking Religion and Literature / Emma Mason
- 2 The Hagaramic and the Abrahamic; or Abraham the Non-European / Yvonne Sherwood
- 3 Abrahamic Faiths and Dialogical Transcendence / Prasenjit Duara
- Part Two Judaism; 4 Judaism: introduction / Cynthia Schienberg
- 5 Jewish Writers and Nationalist Theology at the Fin-de-Siécle / Neta Stahl
- 6 Acts of Hearing in the Book of Esther / Jo Carruthers
- 7 'Every Human Being is a Cause': Three Re-Writings of Abraham, Isaac and Ishmael / Tom Sperlinger
- Part Three Christianity; 8 Christianity: Introduction / Joshua King
- 9 Black Messiah, or Christianity and Masculinity in Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's The River Between / Adriaan van Klinken
- 10 'Tongue Far from Heart': Disguises, Lies and Casuistry in Shakespeare's Measure for Measure / Mate Vince
- 11 Joy, Doubt and Wonder: Contemporary Readings of the Annunciation / Arina Cirstea
- Part Four Islam; 12 Islam: Introduction / Ziauddin Sardar
- 13 The Man from Beni Mora / Aamer Hussein
- 15 Sufism and Pain: Poetic Procrastination of Unity in Classical Persian Verse Narratives / Maryam Farahani
- Part Five Postsecularism; 16 Postsecularism: Introduction / Anthony Paul Smith
- 17 The Categories of Secular Time / Daniel Whistler
- 18 Not my Bible's Keeper: Saramago's Cain Translates Postsecular Dissent / Nazry Bahrawi
- 19 The Postsecular and the Postcolonial / Manav Ratti
- 20 Afterword; References; Index