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Spiritual Identities: Literature and the Post-Secular Imagination
Bullen, J. Barrie ; Carruthers, Jo ; Tate, Andrew (Author)
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Spiritual Identities: Literature and the Post-Secular Imagination - Bullen, J. Barrie ; Carruthers, Jo ; Tate, Andrew
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Synopsis "Spiritual Identities: Literature and the Post-Secular Imagination"
This collection of essays considers the return of the religious in contemporary literary studies. In the twenty-first century it is now possible to detect a new sacred 'turn' in thought and writing. For some writers, this post-secular identity plays itself out in both a recuperation of religious traditions (Catholicism, Puritanism, Judaism) and a re-invention of the religious imaginary (apophaticism, messianism, apocalypticism, fundamentalism). In literary studies, the implications of the post-secular are revitalizing critical engagement with canonical works and fuelling the reclaiming of neglected writings as questions of the construction of spiritual identities come once again to the fore.
