Introduction to Special Issue “English Poetry and Christianity”

Kevin Hart

doi:10.3390/rel8090161

Abstract

The hallowed scholarly area known as “Religion and Literature” has been seeking to expand itself, clarify itself, and even justify itself over the last decade or two.[...]

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Introduction to SpecialIssue “English Poetry and Christianity”The hallowed scholarly area known as “Religion and Literature” has been seeking to expand itself, clarify itself, and even justify itself over the last decade or two
One sign of this mixture of unease and adventure is an invitation that I received from a distinguished publisher a few years ago
Beneath the sheer impossibility of editing such a volume—no one person, or even an editorial team, could possibly command the languages, literatures, and religious traditions—I could see what prompted the publisher to make his request: how good it would be to see, at a glance, as it were, the many ways in which religions have interacted with literatures, and vice versa; and how fascinating it would be to be lifted from one’s own little world to take in a vast panorama of human experience of the sacred

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Introduction

Introduction to SpecialIssue “English Poetry and Christianity”The hallowed scholarly area known as “Religion and Literature” has been seeking to expand itself, clarify itself, and even justify itself over the last decade or two. The proposal was for me to edit a companion to “Religion and Literature”; it would consist of twelve or thirteen essays, and would cover all the world religions and literature in all relevant languages.

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