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Title Reading heresy : religion and dissent in literature and art / edited by Gregory Erickson and Bernard Schweizer.
Contributors Erickson, Gregory
Schweizer, Bernard, 1962-
International Society for Heresy Studies. Conference 2014 : New York, N.Y.)
Publisher Berlin
Boston : De Gruyter
Creation Date [2017]
Notes Essays from the inaugural conference of the International Society for Heresy Studies, held in May 2014 at New York University.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Content Preface / Bernard Schweizer --Introduction /Gregory EricksonSchweizer, Bernard --I. Heresy and modern literature --Heresy and the modernist imagination /Gregory Erickson --"No, I better not say it. I might get punished": misotheism and self-creation in Tomás Rivera's ... And the earth did not devour him /Mark Hama --The absolute heterodoxy of William Blake /Thomas J. J. Altizer --II. Medieval heresy --Unbelief and the problem of heresy : a late medieval context /Natalie Natalie --The joys of heresy : benefits for women in medieval heretical sects /Kathryn Green --III. Heretical theology --Saint Augustine : the neoplatonic father of heretical Orthodoxy /John Daniel Holloway III --Making the world : against spirituality /Jordan E. Miller --The heresy of humor : theological responses to laughter /Bernard Schweizer --IV. From the creators : the artists' corner --The novelist as heretic /James Morrow --Beautiful heresy : a visual artist's re-appropriation of scripture /Susan Hannon --Pop heresy : songwriting at the edge of the speakable /Tasha Golden --Adapting candide for the stage /Stanton Wood --Epilogue : heretical unmaking /Gregory Erickson.
Extent ix, 215 pages : illustrations
24 cm.
Language English
Copyright Date ©2017
National Library system number 990044138030205171

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