{"product_id":"9781350194021","title":"Literature and Religious Experience Beyond Belief and Unbelief","description":"\u003ch1\u003eLiterature and Religious Experience\u003c\/h1\u003e\u003ch2\u003eBeyond Belief and Unbelief\u003c\/h2\u003e\u003ch3\u003eMatthew J. Smith | Caleb D. Spencer\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cb\u003eLiterary Criticism \/ Subjects \u0026amp; Themes \/ Religion\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book challenges the status quo of studies in literature and religion by returning to “experience” as a bridge between theory and practice. Essays focus on keywords of religious experience and demonstrate their applications in drama, fiction, and poetry.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEach chapter explores the broad significance of its keyword as a category of psychological and social behavior and tracks its unique articulation by individual authors, including Conrad, Beecher Stowe and Melville. Together, the chapters construct a critical foundation for studying literature not only from the perspectives of theology and historicism but from the ways that literary experience reflects, reinforces, and sometimes challenges religious experience.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eMatthew J. Smith is Associate Professor of English at Azusa Pacific University. He is the author of Performance and Religion in Early Modern England: Stage, Cathedral, Wagon, Street (Notre Dame, 2018) and co-editor, with Julia Lupton, of Face to Face in Shakespearean Drama (Edinburgh, 2019). He is guest editor of two special issues of Christianity \u0026amp; Literature: The\u003cbr\u003eSacramental Text Reconsidered (2016) and Sincerity (co-editor, 2017).\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCaleb D. Spencer is Associate Professor of English at Azusa Pacific University. His essays appear in Religion \u0026amp; Literature, Journal of the Religion and Popular Culture, and Christianity \u0026amp; Literature. He co-edited Sincerity, a special issue of Christianity \u0026amp; Literature (2017). He also serves as Associate Editor of the journal, Christianity \u0026amp; Literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ctable\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublication Date: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e24 August 2023\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eImprint: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eBloomsbury Academic\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eISBN-13: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e9781350194021\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eFormat: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePaperback softback\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003ePage Count: \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e312\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003eWeight (oz): \u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd\u003e15.68\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51369614835852,"sku":"9781350194021","price":36.86,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0710\/9545\/1788\/files\/getimage_5ff0bf1b-defe-4646-b9fd-7b731b8bfb26.jpg?v=1783879858","url":"https:\/\/lateknightbooks.com\/products\/9781350194021","provider":"Late Knight Books and Services, LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}