目次

List of Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction: Teaching Religion and Literature DANIEL BOSCALJON AND ALAN LEVINOVITZ PART I Foundational Approaches to Religion and Literature 1 Teaching "Religion and Literature" Contextually WESLEY A. KORT 2 Teaching the Bible and Literature DAVID JASPER 3 Pedagogies of Religion and Literature, Or Writing the "And": Nathan Scott,  Paul Ricoeur, Jacques Derrida RICHARD A. ROSENGARTEN 4 Openings and Closures in Religion and Literature: Heart of Darkness or Demian, Life of Pi or Something New LARRY D. BOUCHARD PART II Illuminating Religious Cultures with Literature 5 Surrender to God, Surrender to Love: Teaching Islam through the Poetry of Jalaluddin Rumi DANIELLE WIDMANN ABRAHAM 6 Using Fiction to "Explain" the Daoist Zhuang Zi ALAN LEVINOVITZ 7 Redeeming the Human Reality: Teaching African American Religion and Literature KIMBERLY RAE CONNOR 8 Science Fiction and the Religious Imagination: A Pedagogical Approach JENNIFER ARDEN STONE PART III Thematic Approaches to Religion and Literature 9 Opening the Secular: Teaching Religion and Culture through Fiction DANIEL BOSCALJON 10 Interrogating Faith: Using Literature to Teach Religion and Nature NANCY MENNING 11 Contesting and Contextualizing Islam in America: Teaching Three Cups of Tea MICHAEL BALTUTIS 12 Religion and the Self: Life Writing as a Literary Form and Religious Practice JOHN D. BARBOUR PART IV Three Approaches to Teaching Siddhartha 13 Through a Buddhist Lens: Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha CATHERINE BENTON 14 Love and Apotheosis in Hesse’s Siddhartha PAUL FISCHER 15 Literature, Learning and Liberation: Teaching Hermann Hesse’s Siddhartha PETER ROBERTS Index