An attempt to extend the notion of reading and the concept of a religiously reading community. Professor Detweiler is convinced of the importance of entertaining the energetic discussion of contemporary literary theory in the present debates in religious studies.

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Emory University, USA

Robert Detweiler

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Book Title: Breaking the Fall
Book Subtitle: Religious Readings of Contemporary Fiction
Authors: Robert Detweiler
Series Title: Studies in Literature and Religion
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09991-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Religion & Philosophy Collection, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 1989
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-09991-7Published: 18 June 1989
Series ISSN: 2946-8744
Series E-ISSN: 2946-8752
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVIII, 198
Topics: Religious Studies, general, Fiction, Twentieth-Century Literature

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Table of contents (6 chapters)

Front Matter

Playing for Real

What is Reading Religiously?

Braking the Fall

John Updike’s Sermons

Sacred Texts/Sacred Space

Scheherazade’s Fellowship

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