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“A timely collection of essays reckoning the historical spirit and future relevance of religion and literature, considerations offered with perspectives both limber in style and widely ranging in reach.” David Scott Arnold, Oregon State University This page intentionally left blank TEACHING RELIGION AND LITERATURE Teaching Religion and Literature provides a practical engagement with the pedagogical possibilities of teaching religion courses using literature, teaching literature classes using religion, and teaching Religion and Literature as a discipline. Featuring chapters written by award winning teachers from a variety of institutional settings, the book gives anyone interested in providing interdisciplinary education a set of questions, resources, and tools that will deepen a classroom’s engagement with the field. Chapters are grounded in specific texts and religious questions but are oriented toward engaging general pedagogical issues that allow each chapter to improve any instructor’s engagement with interdisciplinary education. The book offers resources to instructors new to teaching Religion and Literature and provides definitions of what the field means from senior scholars in the field. Featuring a wide range of religious traditions, genres, and approaches, the book also provides an innovative glimpse at emerging possibilities for the sub-discipline. Daniel Boscaljon is the author of Vigilant Faith, editor of Resisting the Place of Belonging and Hope and the Longing for Utopia, and author of several articles. He has taught several courses in theology, literature, philosophy, and interdisciplinary humanities as contingent faculty in the Midwest. Alan Levinovitz is associate professor of religious studies at James Madison University. He focuses on classical Chinese philosophy, religion and literature, and religion and medicine. He authoredTheLimitsofReligiousToleranceandseveraljournalarticles.Hisjournalismhasappeared in Wired, The Atlantic, The Washington Post, Vox, Slate, and elsewhere. This page intentionally left blank TEACHING RELIGION AND LITERATURE Edited by Daniel Boscaljon and Alan Levinovitz Firstpublished2019 byRoutledge 711ThirdAvenue,NewYork,NY10017 andbyRoutledge 2ParkSquare,MiltonPark,Abingdon,OxonOX144RN RoutledgeisanimprintoftheTaylor&FrancisGroup,aninformabusiness ©2019Taylor&Francis TherightofDanielBoscaljonandAlanLevinovitztobeidentifiedastheauthorsofthe editorialmaterial,andoftheauthorsfortheirindividualchapters,hasbeenassertedin accordancewithsections77and78oftheCopyright,DesignsandPatentsAct1988. Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthisbookmaybereprintedorreproducedorutilisedinany formorbyanyelectronic,mechanical,orothermeans,nowknownorhereafterinvented, includingphotocopyingandrecording,orinanyinformationstorageorretrievalsystem, withoutpermissioninwritingfromthepublishers. Trademarknotice:Productorcorporatenamesmaybetrademarksorregisteredtrademarks, andareusedonlyforidentificationandexplanationwithoutintenttoinfringe. LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Acatalogrecordforthisbookhasbeenrequested ISBN:978-1-138-58790-8(hbk) ISBN:978-1-138-61270-9(pbk) ISBN:978-0-429-46495-9(ebk) TypesetinBembo byIntegraSoftwareServicesPvt.Ltd. Daniel dedicates this book, with deep gratitude, to his mentor and friend Brooks Landon, who let him discover how to teach (and live) with confidence, excellence, humor, integrity, and kindness—as well as the importance of an artful sentence. Alan dedicates this to his Religion and Literature cohort at the University of Chicago. This page intentionally left blank CONTENTS ListofContributors xii Acknowledgments xiii Introduction:TeachingReligionandLiterature 1 DanielBoscaljonandAlanLevinovitz PARTI FoundationalApproachestoReligionandLiterature 11 1 Teaching“ReligionandLiterature”Contextually 13 WesleyA.Kort 2 TeachingtheBibleandLiterature 24 DavidJasper 3 PedagogiesofReligionandLiterature,OrWritingthe“And”: NathanScott,PaulRicoeur,JacquesDerrida 34 RichardA.Rosengarten 4 OpeningsandClosuresinReligionandLiterature:HeartofDarkness orDemian,LifeofPiorSomethingNew 46 LarryD.Bouchard
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