Overview
- Features contributions from academics across a broad range of disciplines, from literary critics to theologians
- Uncovers the specific intervention of literary texts and approaches in a wider conversation about religious knowledge
- Features world-renowned scholars/theologians such as the former Archbishop of Canterbury, Rowan Williams
Part of the book series: Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern Literature (CKEML, volume 1)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Part I
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Literature, Theology and Hermeneutics
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Rhetorical Tropes, Literary Form and Theological Controversy
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Religious Knowledge and the Senses
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Justice, Ethics and Practical Theology
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Part VI
Keywords
About this book
The primary aim of Knowing Faith is to uncover the intervention of literary texts and approaches in a wider conversation about religious knowledge: why we need it, how to get there, where to stop, and how to recognise it once it has been attained. Its relative freedom from specialised disciplinary investments allows a literary lens to bring into focus the relatively elusive strands of thinking about belief, knowledge and salvation, probing the particulars of affect implicit in the generalities of doctrine. The essays in this volume collectively probe the dynamic between literary form, religious faith and the process, psychology and ethics of knowing in early modern England. Addressing both the poetics of theological texts and literary treatments of theological matter, they stretch from the Reformation to the early Enlightenment, and cover a variety of themes ranging across religious hermeneutics, rhetoric and controversy, the role of the senses, and the entanglement ofjustice, ethics and practical theology.
The book should appeal to scholars of early modern literature and culture, theologians and historians of religion, and general readers with a broad interest in Renaissance cultures of knowing.
Reviews
“It stands as an important contribution to an emerging body of literary scholarship that is investigating the history of belief with renewed attention. As Rowan Williams’s wide-ranging Afterword intimates, it may also help us to recover some of the foundations of our present-day habits of thought.” (Joseph Ashmore, Modern Language Review, Vol. 116 (1), January, 2021)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Subha Mukherji is Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Cambridge, UK, Fellow of Fitzwilliam College, and Principal Investigator on the ERC-funded interdisciplinary project, Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern England: the Place of Literature. Her publications include Law and Representation in Early Modern Drama (2006), Early Modern Tragicomedy (ed. with Raphael Lyne, 2007), Thinking on Thresholds: The Poetics of Transitive Spaces (ed.) (2011), Fictions of Knowledge: Fact, Evidence, Doubt (ed. with Yota Batsaki and Jan-Melissa Schramm, 2012), and Blind Spots of Knowledge in Shakespeare and his World (ed.) (forthcoming, 2018).
Tim Stuart-Buttle is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Politics at the University of York, UK, and Junior Research Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge. From 2014-17 he was a Research Associate on the Crossroads of Knowledge project at the University of Cambridge. His first monograph, From Moral Theology from Moral Philosophy: Cicero and Visions of Humanity from Locke to Hume, is forthcoming.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Literature, Belief and Knowledge in Early Modern England
Book Subtitle: Knowing Faith
Editors: Subha Mukherji, Tim Stuart-Buttle
Series Title: Crossroads of Knowledge in Early Modern Literature
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-71359-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-71358-8Published: 31 May 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-10045-2Published: 26 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-71359-5Published: 17 May 2018
Series ISSN: 2946-4455
Series E-ISSN: 2946-4463
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 300
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: Early Modern/Renaissance Literature, British and Irish Literature, Christianity, History of Early Modern Europe