Divinity, Hospitality and the Posthuman in 21st-Century Literature

The Material Sacred

Dr Emily McAvan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2026
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
9781350280410 (ISBN)

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What does it feel like to experience the sacred today? Examining in detail many of this century’s most significant writers, including Margaret Atwood, Salman Rushdie, Elizabeth Strout, Marilynne Robinson, Mohsin Hamid, Michael Chabon, Howard Jacobson and Don DeLillo, Divinity, Hospitality and the Posthuman in 21st-Century Literature: The Material Sacred argues that contemporary social and cultural forms, most especially those of 21st century literature, are marked by what Emily McAvan calls a material sacred.

Placing Christian, Jewish and Muslim writers in conversation with the new materialisms, this book shows how secular and sacred mix unpredictably in contemporary writing. In this important contribution to the understanding of religion, materialism and literature, McAvan maps new territory, arguing that the material sacred shows us that the human and non-human, the divine and the profane, have been interwoven from the start.

Emily McAvan is a Teaching Associate, Monash University, Australia, and a specialist in the study of religion and literature. Her most recent work Jeanette Winterson and Religion (Bloomsbury, 2020) is the first study of the sacred and profane in Winterson’s work. Her articles on religion and literature have been published by Literature and Theology, among many others.

Introduction
Chapter 1. Introduction to 21st Century Postsecular Fiction

Section One – God and the Postsecular
Chapter 2. Strout and the Idea of God
Chapter 3. Robinson and Immanent Faith
Chapter 4. Chabon and the Messianic after the Death of God

Section Two – Hospitality and the Postsecular
Chapter 4. Rushdie and Religious Terror
Chapter 5. Hamid and Interreligious Hospitality
Chapter 6. Jacobson and Antisemitism in the Multicultural State

Section Three – The Postsecular and the Non-Human
Chapter 7. DeLillo’s Posthuman Faith
Chapter 8. Atwood’s Ecotheology

Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	11.10.2024
Zusatzinfo	10 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-13	9781350280410 / 9781350280410
Zustand	Neuware