%0 Book
%A Jo Carruthers
%A Andrew Tate
%D 2010
%C Oxford, United Kingdom
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%T Spiritual Identities
%B Literature and the Post-Secular Imagination
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1105998
%X This collection of essays considers the return of the religious in contemporary literary studies. In the twenty-first century it is now possible to detect a new sacred ‘turn’ in thought and writing. For some writers, this post-secular identity plays itself out in both a recuperation of religious traditions (Catholicism, Puritanism, Judaism) and a re-invention of the religious imaginary (apophaticism, messianism, apocalypticism, fundamentalism). In literary studies, the implications of the post-secular are revitalizing critical engagement with canonical works and fuelling the reclaiming of neglected writings as questions of the construction of spiritual identities come once again to the fore.
%K Post-secular, Spiritual geography, Apocalypticism, Apophaticism
%G English