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Literary Secularism: Religion and Modernity in Twentieth-Century Fiction shows the path to secularization in the modern novel in comparative perspective. Writers as diverse as George Eliot, James Joyce, Salman Rushdie, Orhan Pamuk, Taslima Nasrin, and James Wood, have all struggled with religious orthodoxy in their personal lives, and are some of the most important and representative ""secular"" writers in the modern world canon. But their novels, which are far more than mere anti-religious man...

Secularism in literature. --- Religion and literature. --- Fiction --- History and criticism.

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Modernist thinkers once presumed a progressive secularity, with the novel replacing religious texts as society's moral epics. Yet religion-beginning with the Iranian revolution of 1979, through the collapse of communism, and culminating in the singular rupture of September 11, 2001- has not retreated quietly out of sight.In Fiction Beyond Secularism,Justin Neuman argues that contemporary novelists who are most commonly identified as antireligious-among them Orhan Pamuk, Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan, Margaret Atwood, Nadine Gordimer, Haruki Murakami, and J. M. Coetzee-have defied assumptions and have instead written some of the most trenchant critiques of secular ideologies, as well as the most exciting and rigorous inquiries into the legacies of the religious imagination. As a result, many readers (or nonreaders) on either side of the religious divide neglect the insights of works likeThe Satanic Verses, Disgrace,and Snow. Fiction Beyond Secularismserves as a timely corrective.--

Postsecularism. --- Religion in literature. --- Secularism in literature. --- English fiction --- History and criticism.

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Der Band fragt nach der historischen Signatur literarischer Säkularisierungsphänomene zwischen dem 11. und 15. Jahrhundert, nach einer 'Säkularisierung vor der Säkularisierung' also, in der die begriffsprägenden Oppositionen transzendent-immanent, heilig-profan, geistlich-weltlich noch nicht neuzeitlich gegeneinander ausdifferenziert sind. In exemplarischen Analysen wird entfaltet, wie sich Ästhetisches und Religiöses in der Literatur des Mittelalters überschneiden, aber auch voneinander abgrenzen. Im Fokus stehen textuelle (narrative, figurative, spiritualitätsgeschichtlich oder politisch relevante) Säkularisierungsstrategien in unterschiedlichsten Textgattungen. Den Beiträgen gelingt es, die gegenwärtigen Debatten zum Thema "Literarische Säkularisierung" historisch neu zu perspektivieren.

German literature --- Secularization --- Secularism in literature --- Literature, Medieval --- Appropriation and impropriation --- Impropriation --- Church and state --- History and criticism --- History --- Law and legislation --- Narration. --- aesthetics. --- religion. --- sacralization. --- secularization.

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This book offers an in-depth study of iconic literary narratives and images of religious transformation and secularisation in the Netherlands during the 1960s and 1970s. Jesseka Batteau shows how Gerard Reve, Jan Wolkers and Maarten 't Hart texts and performances can be understood as instances of religious and post-religious memory with a broad public impact. They contributed to a widely shared perspective on the Dutch religious past and a collective understanding of what secularisation consists of. This uniquely interdisciplinary approach combines insights from literary studies, memory studies, media studies and religious studies and traces the complex dynamics of the circulation of memory and meaning between literary texts, mass media and embodied performances within a post-religious society.

Dutch fiction --- Religion in literature. --- Secularism in literature. --- Memory in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Reve, Gerard, --- Wolkers, Jan, --- Hart, Maarten 't, --- Criticism and interpretation.

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"Literary depictions of the sacred and the secular from the Middle Ages are representative of the era's widely held cultural understandings related to religion and the nature of lived experience. Using late Medieval English literature, including some of Chaucer's writings, these essays do not try to define a secular realm distinct and separate from the divine or religious, but instead analyze intersections of the sacred and the profane, suggesting that these two categories are mutually constitutive rather than antithetical. With essays by former students of John V. Fleming, the collection pays tribute to the Princeton University professor emeritus through wide-ranging scholarship and literary criticism. Including reflections on depictions of Bathsheba, Troilus and Criseyde, the Legend of Good Women, Chaucer's Pardoner, and Margery Kempe, these essays focus on literature while ranging into history, philosophy, and the visual arts. Taken together, the work suggests that the domain of the sacred, as perceived in the Middle Ages, can variously be seen as having a hierarchical or a complementary relationship to the things of this world."--Pub. desc.

English literature --- Holy, The, in literature. --- Secularism in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Chaucer, Geoffrey, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Chaucer, Jeffrey, --- Chʻiao-sou, Chieh-fu-lei, --- Chieh-fu-lei Chʻiao-sou, --- Choser, Dzheffri, --- Choser, Zheoffreĭ, --- Cosvr, Jvoffrvi, --- Tishūsar, Zhiyūfrī,