Literature and Religion
Forskningsgruppeinfo
Deltakere
Erik Tonning
Jan Jacob Hoffmann
Karl Jonas Kurlberg
Andrea Rinaldi
Jutta Saima Schloon
Siri Vevle
Stuart John Sillars
Lene M Johannessen
Jamie Christopher Callison
Kontakt
Department of Foreign Languages
Sydnesplass 7
Bergen
post@if.uib.no
Forskningsgruppeleder
Erik Tonning
Ansvarlig enhet(er)
Institutt for fremmedspråk
Beskrivelse
The UiB Literature & Religion Research Group provides an inclusive forum for all levels of researchers who are working on aspects of literature and religion in a variety of institutes and departments. We seek to probe the interfaces of writing and belief across broad spectrums of time, geography, and language: from ancient Egypt to modern England, from medieval Arabic to early modern German, from occult alchemical texts to colonial American Puritan texts. By bringing into conversation our work on seemingly disparate peoples and places we aim to gain new ways of understanding how literature and religion intersect. Open to interested scholars from any field - religious studies, literature, history, archaeology, etc - this research group will enable the kind of reflection that results from learning about different cutting-edge approaches to similar material. How can formal literary methods energize theological discourse, for instance? How can theories of religion refresh poetics? What new frontiers of understanding can be opened by reaching outside our individual disciplines? The interdisciplinary setting will encourage new questions and different challenges to established theories and methodologies. Through various forms of scholarly conversations, this research group will forge new connections throughout and beyond UiB, in order to nurture innovative scholarship and a constructive scholarly community.
Publikasjoner
Horizons of enchantment : essays in the American imaginary
(2011)
Johannessen,
Lene M
University Press of New England
Modernism and Christianity
(2014)
Tonning,
Erik
Palgrave Macmillan
‘Penny-wise…’: Ezra Pound’s Posthumous Legacy to Fascism
(2015)
Rinaldi,
Andrea;Feldman,
Matthew
Sanglap Journal of Literary and Cultural Inquiry
Shakespeare and the Visual Imagination
(2015)
Sillars,
Stuart
Cambridge University Press
„Des weiten Innenreiches mitte“. Mittelalter-Imaginationen in der Dichtung Stefan Georges
(2012)
Schloon,
Jutta