Poetry and the religious imagination : the power of the word /

"What is the role of spiritual experience in poetry? What are the marks of a religious imagination? How close can the secular and the religious be brought together? How do poetic imagination and religious beliefs interact? Exploring such questions through the concept of the religious imaginatio...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Bugliani Knox, Francesca, Lonsdale, David
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2016
Series:Power of the word Poetry and the religious imagination
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Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Theology and literature in context
  • pt. 2. The religious imagination : from Thomas Aquinas to Wallace Stevens
  • pt. 3. Inspiration : poetry and poetry reading
  • pt. 4. Poets and spiritual experience : mystical gestures
  • pt. 5. Poetry, religious imagination and religious belief