Reading Heresy : : Religion and Dissent in Literature and Art / / ed. by Gregory Erickson, Bernard Schweizer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2017 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Altizer, Thomas J. J.,; Calder, Natalie,; Erickson, Gregory,; Golden, Tasha,; Green, Kathryn,; Hama, Mark,; Hannon, Susan,; Holloway, John Daniel,; Miller, Jordan E.,; Morrow, James,; Schweizer, Bernard,; Wood, Stanton,
• HerausgeberIn: Erickson, Gregory,; Schweizer, Bernard,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2017]; ©2017
• Year of Publication: 2017
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (X, 215 p.)

Heresy studies is a new interdisciplinary, supra-religious, and humanist field of study that focuses on borderlands of dogma, probes the intersections between orthodoxy and heterodoxy, and explores the realms of dissent in religion, art, and literature. Free from confessional agendas and tolerant of...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Table of Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• I. Heresy and Modern Literature
• Heresy and the Modernist Imagination
• “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
• The Absolute Heterodoxy of William Blake
• II. Medieval Heresy
• Unbelief and the Problem of Heresy: A Late Medieval Context
• The Joys of Heresy: Benefits for Women in Medieval Heretical Sects
• III. Heretical Theology
• Saint Augustine: The Neoplatonic Father of Heretical Orthodoxy
• Making the World: Against Spirituality
• The Heresy of Humor: Theological Responses to Laughter
• IV. From the Creators: The Artists’ Corner
• The Novelist as Heretic
• Beautiful Heresy: A Visual Artist’s Re-appropriation of Scripture
• Pop Heresy: Songwriting at the Edge of the Speakable
• Adapting Candide for the Stage
• Epilogue: Heretical Unmaking
• Notes on the Contributors
• Index