Reading Heresy: Religion and Dissent in Literature and Art

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Reading Heresy

Religion and Dissent in Literature and Art

Edited by: Gregory Erickson and Bernard Schweizer

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2017

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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 as an artistic stimulant. 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.

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Gregory Erickson, New York University, U.S.A and Bernard Schweizer, Long Island University, New York, U.S.A.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	V
Preface Bernard Schweizer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	VII
Introduction Gregory Erickson and Bernard Schweizer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
I. Heresy and Modern Literature
Heresy and the Modernist Imagination Gregory Erickson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	21
“No, I better not say it. I might get punished”: Misotheism and Self-Creation in Tomás Rivera’s .‥ And the Earth Did Not Devour Him Mark Hama Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	35
The Absolute Heterodoxy of William Blake Thomas J. J. Altizer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	51
II. Medieval Heresy
Unbelief and the Problem of Heresy: A Late Medieval Context Natalie Calder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	67
The Joys of Heresy: Benefits for Women in Medieval Heretical Sects Kathryn Green Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	83
III. Heretical Theology
Saint Augustine: The Neoplatonic Father of Heretical Orthodoxy John Daniel Holloway Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	103
Making the World: Against Spirituality Jordan E. Miller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	117
The Heresy of Humor: Theological Responses to Laughter Bernard Schweizer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	135
IV. From the Creators: The Artists’ Corner
The Novelist as Heretic James Morrow Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	149
Beautiful Heresy: A Visual Artist’s Re-appropriation of Scripture Susan Hannon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	165
Pop Heresy: Songwriting at the Edge of the Speakable Tasha Golden Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	175
Adapting Candide for the Stage Stanton Wood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	185
Epilogue: Heretical Unmaking Gregory Erickson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	201
Notes on the Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	209
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	213

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eBook published on:

November 20, 2017

eBook ISBN:

9783110556827

Hardcover published on:

November 20, 2017

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110555943

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Front matter:

10

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215

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110556827

eBook ISBN: 9783110556827

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110555943

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Heresy; Dissent; Blasphemy; Non-Conformism

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Scholars, students, and common readers interested in heresy, religious studies, theology, criticism, literature, and art

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