Faculty Name

Julie Neraas

Document Type

Syllabi

School

CLA

Department

REL

Course Subject

REL

Course Number

3150

Course Section

01

Course Title

Religion and Literature

Academic Term and Year

Fall 2016

Credits

4.00

Hamline Plan Letter

D, H, W

Area of Study

REL

Course Description

Goals: To show both how imaginative secular literature can be religious - e.g., communicate a religious vision, help shape one's character and inform one's deepest self-understanding, legitimate or de-legitimate social forms and practices - and how the study of such literature has become a key element in the field of religious studies. Content: The specific topic and genre will vary from year to year. The focus may be plays, novels, short stories, poetry, or auto/biography. It may range in scope from an exhaustive study of a single literary work (e.g., Melville's Moby Dick), to the works of a single author (e.g., Margaret Atwood, Jon Hassler, Flannery O'Connor), to a comparison of different authors (e.g., C.S. Lewis and G.K. Chesterton, Dorothy Sayers and P. D. James). Or it may be thematically arranged: e.g., Jewish Stories of Wonder; The Poetry of Prayer (Donne, Herbert, Hopkins, Dickinson, Berryman); Love and the Novel: A Critique of Power; How We Die; Modern Apocalyptic Literature; or Living With the Land: An Ecology of Fiction. Taught: Annually Credits: 4

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