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
Recommended Citation
Neraas, Julie, "REL3150-01.Religion and Literature.F16.Neraas,Julie" (2016). Historic Syllabi -- full text access limited to internal Hamline administrative staff only. 11803.
https://digitalcommons.hamline.edu/syllabi/11803