MLA Commons | TC Religion and Literature | Activity https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/religion-and-literature/ Activity feed for the group, TC Religion and Literature. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 18:43:54 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 114ee83fce11a8960ee323c26b63d5cb Jack Dudley started the topic Black Studies and Spirituality (MLA 2027) in the forum TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/religion-and-literature/forum/topic/black-studies-and-spirituality-mla-2027/ Tue, 03 Feb 2026 12:29:22 -0500 Black Studies and Spirituality

This guaranteed online session of the TC Religion and Literature forum at the January 2027 MLA convention invites papers on literary production and culture that occurs at the intersections of Black Studies and spirituality. How have texts by Black writers imagined, challenged, and embraced traditional, new, and…[Read more]

]]> 0 18eddb608fffee862a75ea355d51f8f0 William Viestenz started the topic City of Angels: Migration, Encounter, and New Forms of Faith (MLA 2027) in the forum TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/religion-and-literature/forum/topic/city-of-angels-migration-encounter-and-new-forms-of-faith-mla-2027/ Tue, 27 Jan 2026 22:22:51 -0500 For this guaranteed session of the TC Religion and Literature forum at the January 2027 MLA convention, we invite papers focusing on literatures of migration and spirituality. Given the convention’s location in Los Angeles, we especially welcome proposals that consider authors and texts with connections to LA and the city as a site of contact, d…[Read more]

]]> 0 e16ff38350b1015ec0ce696065f49325 Cynthia R. Wallace started the topic MLA TC Religion and Literature Executive Self-Nominations Invited in the forum TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/religion-and-literature/forum/topic/mla-tc-religion-and-literature-executive-self-nominations-invited/ Tue, 27 Jan 2026 15:45:37 -0500 The executive committee of TC Religion and Literature invites self-nominations for a five-year term on the executive committee beginning January 2027. Here’s a clarifying paragraph from the MLA:

 Forum executive committees appoint one new member annually to their committees. Members may suggest new committee members by writing or typing in the na…

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]]> 0 e1710a5c1c5f873429e0d70337b99b99 Heng Du started the topic MLA2026 Guaranteed panel on premodern temporality in search of respondent/panel in the forum TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/religion-and-literature/forum/topic/mla2026-guaranteed-panel-on-premodern-temporality-in-search-of-respondent-panel/ Tue, 25 Mar 2025 15:36:53 -0400 We are hoping to recruit a scholar outside of Chinese studies to participate in this comparative panel. All three papers so far deal with temporality in the religious context, and we will probably highlight this dimension in the finalized panel description. I included below a draft that can be further tailored according to your…[Read more]

]]> 0 e4db8fe48eecfe98104fadb1e7936b51 Cynthia R. Wallace started the topic CFP: Religion, Literature, and Palestinian Liberation (MLA 2026) in the forum TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/religion-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-religion-literature-and-palestinian-liberation-mla-2026/ Wed, 05 Feb 2025 16:35:48 -0500 <p style=”font-weight: 400;”>For this guaranteed session of the January 2026 MLA convention, the TC Religion and Literature forum invites proposals that focus on literatures of Palestine and the Palestinian diaspora, especially in their engagements with religion, interfaith encounters, justice, and liberation movements. As members of the MLA…[Read more]

]]> 0 562c560d4a8a1016ea953f8931cdbebd Cynthia R. Wallace started the topic CFP: Brave Sermons: Religious Speech and the Struggle for Justice (MLA 2026) in the forum TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/religion-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-brave-sermons-religious-speech-and-the-struggle-for-justice-mla-2026/ Wed, 05 Feb 2025 16:31:55 -0500 <p style=”font-weight: 400;”>Episcopalian Bishop Mariann Budde’s January 2025 inauguration sermon sparked both praise and critique, shining light on the contested role of religious speech in public discourse and its relation to justice and good governance. As Elizabeth Ammons writes in Brave New Words: How Literature Will Save the Planet (2010), r…[Read more]

]]> 0 f0369cd34af62690abd75124ce43dc91 María Herrera-Sobek replied to the topic MLA Religion and Literature Executive self-nominations invited in the forum TC Religion and Literature via email https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/religion-and-literature/forum/topic/mla-religion-and-literature-executive-self-nominations-invited/#post-1039403 Mon, 27 Jan 2025 20:35:19 -0500 Dear Professor Cynthia Wallace,
I am responding to your invitation to self-nominate for the position in the
MLA Executive Committee for the forum TC Religion and Literature.
Much of my research has focused on the Virgin of Guadalupe in the Mexican
ballad and the Mexican Christmas plays or Pastorelas.
Thanking you,
Maria Herrera-Sobek
Professor…[Read more]

]]> 0 52a949909c4ab7e8bc0768b74531d41b Cynthia R. Wallace started the topic MLA Religion and Literature Executive self-nominations invited in the forum TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/religion-and-literature/forum/topic/mla-religion-and-literature-executive-self-nominations-invited/ Mon, 27 Jan 2025 18:55:46 -0500 The executive committee of TC Religion and Literature invites self-nominations for a five-year term on the executive committee beginning January 2026. Here’s a clarifying paragraph from the MLA:

<i data-olk-copy-source=”MessageBody”>Appointments</i>. Forum executive committees appoint one new member annually to their committees. Members may…[Read more]

]]> 0 0e5aae4c57dbff7a0d88b01d57df95a9 Frank Pfost deposited Fénice et la critique de la moralité courtoise par Chrétien de Troyes dans Cligès in the group TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1889768/ Fri, 21 Jun 2024 04:06:01 -0400 Cligès, le second roman de Chrétien de Troyes, et celui qu’il a écrit en 1176, est toujours considéré
comme le plus divertissant de ses romans. Dans Cligès Chrétien a certainement utilisé beaucoup
d’artifices et beaucoup d’effets comiques pour créer son oeuvre, qui est plein d’images éclatantes. Elle
nous amuse plus que ses autres romans. Ma…[Read more]

]]> 0 9e91f3860ebd86c04cdacdd458483d27 Frank Pfost deposited ENSAYOS SOBRE ALGUNAS COMEDIAS DEL SIGLO DE ORO ESPAÑOL in the group TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1888752/ Sun, 09 Jun 2024 04:04:48 -0400 Se trata de un repaso a siete comedias del Siglo de Oro español, entre las que destacan: LOS PASOS de Lope de Rueda y el Entremés del RETABLO DE LAS MARAVILLAS de Miguel de Cervantes, LA VERDAD SOSPECHOSA de Juan Ruiz de Alarcón, FUENTEOVEJUNA de Lope de Vega, EL BURLADOR DE SEVILLA de Tirso de Molina, EL ESCLAVO DE DEMONIO de Mira de Amescua, y…[Read more]

]]> 0 64fa4498d4e3e1b595823b9cc5cf6325 Frank Pfost deposited Les Femmes coupables dans les LAIS de Marie de France in the group TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887844/ Sun, 02 Jun 2024 04:05:44 -0400 Les douze Lais de Marie de France, écrits au XIIe siècle par un auteur dont on connaît peu de choses,
retiennent leur renom pour maintes raisons. Ce sont des contes, des aventures, souvent merveilleuses
et fantastiques, des chevaliers errants et leurs dames au temps médiévaux lorsque la bataille épique et
continuelle entre le bien at le ma…[Read more]

]]> 0 77e9e20a412ac725aad1a7b544c48302 Frank Pfost deposited Censorship and the Original Version of Tolstoy's THE RAID in the group TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1887555/ Thu, 30 May 2024 04:05:04 -0400 One of the most important factors literary critics often overlook in the work of Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828-
1910) is the fact that it was subject to the censorship of the tsarist government before it was allowed to be published
in Russia. This harassment lasted the entire period of Tolstoy’s writing life, and although neither he nor his f…[Read more]

]]> 0 14fd710192c2cacea60bcf12493eba2a Thomas Mazanec deposited Poet-Monks: The Invention of Buddhist Poetry in Late Medieval China in the group TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1874115/ Wed, 31 Jan 2024 04:03:15 -0500 Poet-Monks focuses on the literary and religious practices of Buddhist poet-monks in Tang-dynasty China to propose an alternative historical arc of medieval Chinese poetry. Combining large-scale quantitative analysis with close readings of important literary texts, Thomas J. Mazanec describes how Buddhist poet-monks, who first appeared in the…[Read more]

]]> 0 cf7e909f3f0ea7d13970897743e3f339 Elizabeth Scarlett started the topic Religion in Modern Spanish Memoir and Autofiction. MLA Convention Session #154 in the discussion TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/religion-and-literature/forum/topic/religion-in-modern-spanish-memoir-and-autofiction-mla-convention-session-154/ Wed, 20 Dec 2023 18:38:32 -0500 You are cordially invited to the  first of three sessions sponsored by this forum at the MLA 2024 Convention in Philadelphia:

#154 – Religion in Modern Spanish Memoir and Autofiction

Thursday, 4 January 2024 7:00 PM – 8:15 PM

Marriott – Grand K (Level 5)
Presider:  Elizabeth Scarlett , U at Buffalo, State U of New York
Presentations
S…[Read more]

]]> 0 5c0375c7978e2e06f6506679c8d371de Elizabeth Scarlett started the topic New executive committee member to be appointed soon in the discussion TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/religion-and-literature/forum/topic/new-executive-committee-member-to-be-appointed-soon/ Wed, 20 Dec 2023 18:06:04 -0500 Dear forum members,

If you are interested in being considered for appointment to the executive committee (EC) for this forum, please email me by 28 December 2023. Include your CV along with a message of intent. This is a five-year commitment during which you become secretary in your third year and chair in the fourth. You must be a member of MLA…[Read more]

]]> 0 b519953a878ab0679f5984b66717e0f1 Steven Schroeder deposited as murder is to crow in the group TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1863983/ Thu, 09 Nov 2023 03:06:17 -0500 Thomas à Kempis wrote that everyone desires peace but not the things that make for peace. Such a universal desire would be a hopeful sign, a foundation to build on as we contemplate (and, no doubt, debate) “the things that make for peace.” I offer as murder is to crow as a record of “perchings” in my contemplation of things that make for peace.…[Read more]

]]> 0 377f7ccb455cc730d286255c8df1763a Jamie Callison deposited Modernism and Religion: Between Mysticism and Orthodoxy in the group TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1860582/ Wed, 04 Oct 2023 04:10:02 -0400 ‘Modernism and Religion’ argues that modernism participated in broader processes of religious change in the twentieth century. The new prominence accorded to immanence and immediacy in religious discourse is carried over into the modernist epiphany. Modernism became mystical. The emergence of Catholic theological modernism, human rights, Christian…[Read more]

]]> 0 6a3033295d0e525e3ce313267a1313cf Elizabeth Scarlett started the topic CALL FOR PAPERS: MLA 2024 session of the TC Forum on Religion and Literature in the discussion TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/religion-and-literature/forum/topic/call-for-papers-mla-2024-session-of-the-tc-forum-on-religion-and-literature/ Wed, 25 Jan 2023 18:31:07 -0500 “20th-Century ‘Saints’ and Struggle”

If “spirituality” relates to a concern for the transcendent and a “saint” is one who has made a significant contribution to a spiritual tradition, this panel focuses on 20th-century saints whose spirituality intersected significantly with social and political struggle. Abstracts demonstrating familiarity…[Read more]

]]> 0 56bf7195818506acee2b697917c5f8d0 Steven Schroeder deposited in the path of totality in the group TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1830071/ Tue, 17 Jan 2023 02:29:39 -0500 The forty poems in this collection have percolated through more than forty years of meditation on “city” that began when I was an undergraduate studying with Richard Luecke at Valparaiso University. The title, In the Path of Totality, references a phrase made familiar by media coverage leading up to the total solar eclipse that was visible acr…[Read more]

]]> 0 4ad4b28292b67f886a8b1584340dffbb Steven Schroeder deposited the imperfection of the eye in the group TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1829952/ Mon, 16 Jan 2023 02:37:22 -0500 There is an all at once quality to lyric poetry that makes it akin to mysticism. It knows there is more to vision than meets the eye. It takes the whole world in while knowing the whole of it is always known imperfectly, always here, always now. The here and now of the seventy-one poems in Steven Schroeder’s new collection is most often Chicago,…[Read more]

]]> 0 a0b3204a36d1b0485658194be8f8a2fa Steven Schroeder deposited turn in the group TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1829948/ Mon, 16 Jan 2023 02:30:10 -0500 In the spirit of the old Shaker hymn, the poems in Steven Schroeder’s new collection turn and turn – from a question Laozi raises to Woody Guthrie’s holy ground, from Chicago to Texas to Shenzhen to Macao, in conversation with poets and philosophers from Euclid and Thoreau to Emily Dickinson, John Donne, Gertrude Stein, Buddy Holly, Lyle Lovet…[Read more]

]]> 0 109ed8116c48d8f0a24dca83e301314a Elizabeth Scarlett started the topic 2023 MLA Convention session 377 - Making Sacred, Making Holy in the discussion TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/religion-and-literature/forum/topic/2023-mla-convention-session-377-making-sacred-making-holy/ Thu, 05 Jan 2023 22:31:20 -0500 If you are at the Convention in San Francisco, please consider attending the Religion and Literature Forum Session 377 on Friday, 6 January 2023, 5:15 PM – 6:30 PM.

“Making Sacred, Making Holy: The Canonization of People and Texts” in the Marriott Marquis – Sierra Suite H (Level 5)
Presider
Jason Lewallen, U of Dallas
Presentations (3)
• D…[Read more]

]]> 0 3f850922477f2e1734d3efe087d7f6cf Ari Borrell deposited Ko-wu or Kung-an? Practive, Realization and Teaching in the Thought of Chang Chiu-cheng in the group TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1788304/ Fri, 22 Jul 2022 03:53:19 -0400 Examines the intersection between Chan Buddhism and Neo-Confucianism during the Southern Song dynasty period (1126-1279) in China.

]]> 0 a4688723c284505be202ffed88cf1886 Stephen E. Lewis deposited "Philosopher d'une manière 'mariale': Alentour du verset: Petite phénoménologie des Mystères de Marie-Aimée Manchon" in the group TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1774231/ Wed, 09 Mar 2022 03:52:22 -0500 A review article focused on phenomenological method and Christian thought in Marie-Aimée Manchon’s book _Alentour du verses: Petite phénoménologie des Mystère_ (Ad Solem, 2019).

]]> 0 4b0a01895d0cb838885bf03cd1f18fa8 Elizabeth Scarlett started the topic CfP MLA 2023: Religio-Visual Cultures in the Digital Age in the discussion TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/religion-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2023-religio-visual-cultures-in-the-digital-age/ Sun, 06 Feb 2022 22:14:29 -0500 How are various new media forms (e.g. apps, memes, gaming avatars, Webcast rites) creating performative representations of religion?  200-word proposals by March 15.  Manisha Basu, U of Illinois, Urbana (mbasu@illinois.edu ) Adrienne Brown, U of Chicago (adrienneb@uchicago.edu ).

More information: How have visual digital forms supplemented r…[Read more]

]]> 0 6ac5d86f85f024a45c6b586df8edbcf3 Elizabeth Scarlett started the topic CfP MLA 2023: Detective Fiction and Religious Imaginaries in the discussion TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/religion-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2023-detective-fiction-and-religious-imaginaries/ Sun, 06 Feb 2022 22:08:03 -0500 How do cleric-sleuths or other religious detective figures (e.g., Cadfael, Granchester, Father Brown, etc.)  navigate/challenge religion alongside police or state-sponsored will-to-knowledge? 200-word proposal to mbasu@illinois.edu by March 10.

More information: From G.K. Chesterton’s ‘Father Brown’ to Ellis Peters’ Brother Cadfael, from Harry…[Read more]

]]> 0 d248b796623de82012f11cbb3b748beb Elizabeth Scarlett started the topic CfP MLA 2023: Making Sacred, Making Holy: the Canonization of People and Texts in the discussion TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/religion-and-literature/forum/topic/cfp-mla-2023-making-sacred-making-holy-the-canonization-of-people-and-texts/ Sun, 06 Feb 2022 21:40:16 -0500 Memorialization, “entering the canon,” and the influence of politics, race, class, or gender. Who decides on the people, texts, places, dates, etc. selected to be commemorated, studied, and/or enshrined? Theorists such as Lonergan, Bourdieu, Girard, and Agamben have explored “sacralization” as a process of making holy or sacred that can inv…[Read more]

]]> 0 cd68c767ff95397c5f1467a11344a941 Elizabeth Scarlett deposited RECording the End time in Twenty-First-Century Spanish Film in the group TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1682304/ Sat, 28 Mar 2020 03:52:38 -0400 Apocalyptic themes handled by Spanish directors of the current century, including Jaume Balagueró, Paco Plaza, Juan Carlos Fresnadillo, David and Álex Pastor, Álex de la Iglesia, Juan Antonio Bayona, Jorge Torregrossa, and Alfonso Cortés-Cavanillas, and F. Javier Gutiérrez.

]]> 0 27b7583913acfaf11c0015491079ceb3 Thomas Mazanec deposited How Poetry Became Meditation in Late-Ninth-Century China in the group TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1673214/ Sat, 21 Dec 2019 16:32:12 -0500 In late-ninth-century China, poetry and meditation became equated — not just metaphorically, but as two equally valid means of achieving stillness and insight. This article discusses how several strands in literary and Buddhist discourses fed into an assertion about such a unity by the poet-monk Qiji 齊己 (864–937?). One strand was the aesthet…[Read more]

]]> 0 aa5d8c5f6b55a4f5993d0d2722bb84b4 Noemi Martin Santo deposited “Vive el Sol, / si Dios le debo llamar”. La conversión de un príncipe en Los mártires del Japón de Lope de Vega in the group TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1641830/ Thu, 06 Jun 2019 03:49:48 -0400 This article examines the conversion to Christianity of the prince Tayco in the comedia de santos Los mártires del Japón by Lope de Vega and the creation of the Dominican missionary Alonso de Navarrete as a dramatic character. Lope portraits Tayco as a young prince who has to learn how to become a king, having Navarrete as a role model. Lope c…[Read more]

]]> 0 5450af4bb18aad4268b5527a7227e201 Chandrima Chakraborty deposited Narendra Modi’s victory speech delivers visions of a Hindu nationalist ascetic in the group TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1641079/ Tue, 28 May 2019 16:45:13 -0400 India’s re-elected Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered a victory speech that presented himself as a selfless and humble Hindu ascetic. This vision goes far to promote a Hindu nationalist ‘new India.’

]]> 0 e46ae46cab73f41eccfdaf6498d7f9be George Prokhorov deposited WHAT SORT OF JEW DOSTOEVSKY LIKED AND DISLIKED: A NARRATIVE OF A LOVE-HATE RELATIONSHIP in the group TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1622886/ Sun, 04 Nov 2018 03:54:03 -0500 In his fiction, journalism and letters, Dostoevsky recurrently mentions ethnicity of his protagonists. Russians, Poles, Englishmen, Germans, Turks, Greeks etc. never act as individuals with their personal life but rather as ‘carriers’ of some national idea. Amidst the nations represented in Dostoevsky’s oeuvre, there are some Jews. The fashi…[Read more]

]]> 0 45a33b20b108747310d238bf1abb8628 Stephen E. Lewis deposited Seeing, or Seeing Oneself Seen: Nicholas of Cusa’s Contribution in De visione Dei in the group TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1621088/ Mon, 15 Oct 2018 03:57:17 -0400 Nicholas of Cusa’s _De visione Dei sive de Icona_ (1453), in addition to its contribution to the question of the vision of God, engages with numerous debates concerning visibility in general, and thus addresses the dimensions of phenomenality–namely, questions concerning the icon as a type of phenomenon, the reversal of vision into a…[Read more]

]]> 0 61f8ef79abad98fd6263b1e3f91cb8c0 religioncomics deposited It's Time for LISSA in the group TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1611356/ Thu, 21 Jun 2018 04:23:07 -0400 Review of LISSA: A STORY ABOUT MEDICAL PROMISE, FRIENDSHIP, AND REVOLUTION (University of Toronto Press) by Sherine Hamdy, Coleman Nye, Sarula Bao, and Caroline Brewer

]]> 0 742dc0359cc9cc4c1718c7bbe1543a1e A. Lewis deposited The Ancestral Lands of Black Panther and Killmonger Unburied in the group TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1605385/ Wed, 04 Apr 2018 04:12:32 -0400 This is one of a series of film reviews of Black Panther (2018), directed by Ryan Coogler.

]]> 0 b23cdb1c83be199b7dce5e011824c653 A. Lewis deposited A Talk about Religion in the group TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1599889/ Wed, 07 Feb 2018 04:24:11 -0500 And interview between Julian Darius and A. David Lewis in LAZARUS, THE FOREVER MAN #0 (Martian Lit).

]]> 0 d6cf2e293b5a646b9ba78b30352813ce Phillip Lundberg deleted the file: Kafka_Transformed from TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1599828/ Tue, 06 Feb 2018 18:57:49 -0500 0 df88286ad5ad16e02e40fedb8b7928f3 Phillip Lundberg posted an update in the group TC Religion and Literature: Would anyone be interested in a session on Franz Kafka, a […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1599590/ Sat, 03 Feb 2018 22:41:10 -0500 Would anyone be interested in a session on Franz Kafka, a Romantic? — If a deeper reading of F.K. is of interest, please contact me and I will attempt to arrange such a session–indeed, not just a Romantic but esoterically a Christian….

]]> 0 2441d2e9ad4bd90b470f90e086f411ad Steven Schroeder deposited Introduction to Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass in the group TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1599384/ Fri, 02 Feb 2018 04:03:35 -0500 An introduction to a newly published edition of Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass.

]]> 0 2a686ddd8f74235d1220c366278b7cb7 A. Lewis deposited In a New Crop of Religious Books, Belief is Unbound in the group TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1588958/ Sat, 18 Nov 2017 05:38:20 -0500 New scholarly books in religious studies defy easy labels and reflect the eagerness of publishers to widen academic discourse and to upset conventional wisdom in the name of new knowledge—in science, across genders, between faiths, and around the world.

]]> 0 6ed76f324ec2d62fe292bcd798d34fa6 Miriam S. Gogol posted an update in the group TC Religion and Literature: Dear members of the Religion and Literature group: […] https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1586753/ Sat, 04 Nov 2017 18:39:06 -0400 Dear members of the Religion and Literature group:
Call for Papers
The International Theodore Dreiser Society will sponsor two panels at the American Literature Association Conference in San Francisco, CA on May 24-27, 2018.

Panel One: Open Topic
Papers are invited on any topic concerning Dreiser
Panel Two:…[Read more]

]]> 0 490fa44708ae19ed9013df4f067b27e2 Thomas Mazanec deposited The Medieval Chinese Gāthā and Its Relationship to Poetry
 in the group TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1580796/ Thu, 07 Sep 2017 20:17:01 -0400 Abstract: This paper investigates the shifting definitions of the term gāthā (Ch. ji) over an 800-year period, from the earliest sūtratranslations into Chinese until the mid-tenth century. Although the term originally referred to the verse sections of scriptures, gāthās soon began to circulate separately, used in ritual, contemplative, and peda…[Read more]

]]> 0 93e8e95ed7ae5bff98b6f1059a941462 religioncomics deposited The Jews, the Others, of Piers Plowman in the group TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1571824/ Sun, 28 May 2017 01:00:04 -0400 Hardly a Passus of Piers Plowman goes by without one reference to a Jewish individual, practice, or belief — that is, a Jewish individual, practice or belief as perceived or believed by a Christian observer. Whereas a multitude of these references abound in Piers Plowman, it contains, essentially, only a pair of conventional medieval approaches f…[Read more]

]]> 0 255ed3ebaa687045eac97034baaf8dd8 Tom Mazanec deposited The Invention of Chinese Buddhist Poetry: Poet-Monks in Late Medieval China (c. 760–960 CE) in the group TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1571814/ Sat, 27 May 2017 20:34:30 -0400 This dissertation presents an alternative history of late medieval literature, one which traces the development of Chinese Buddhist poetry into a fully autonomous tradition. It does so through a careful study of the works of poet-monks in the late medieval period (760–960). These poet-monks established a tradition of elite Buddhist poetry in c…[Read more]

]]> 0 1c0352664d01044c4eef87302ce36756 Tom Mazanec deposited The Invention of Chinese Buddhist Poetry: Poet-monks in Late Medieval China (c. 760-960 CE) in the group TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1571810/ Sat, 27 May 2017 20:24:04 -0400 This dissertation presents an alternative history of late medieval literature, one which traces the development of Chinese Buddhist poetry into a fully autonomous tradition. It does so through a careful study of the works of poet-monks in the late medieval period (760–960). These poet-monks established a tradition of elite Buddhist poetry in c…[Read more]

]]> 0 6be8d0ad0bbf1b310697992f07e52109 religioncomics deposited Defined by Death: The Contemporary American Novel as Thanatomimesis in the group TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1571762/ Sat, 27 May 2017 01:04:04 -0400 Death drives the contemporary American novel and its market in the late-20th and early 21st-century. To help illustrate this, we consider Don DeLillo’s White Noise from 1985 and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road from 2006 for something that Walter Benjamin — famously quoted as saying “Death is the sanction of everything the story-teller can tell” — ma…[Read more]

]]> 0 995f8a3478e593b27d58c0d32db0ed78 religioncomics deposited Islam and the Afterlife in the group TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1571761/ Sat, 27 May 2017 01:00:04 -0400 This brief presentation gives a basic overview of the Islamic afterlife, focusing both on its variations from Judeo-Christian concepts and its varied understandings within the faith.

]]> 0 15a948636d607db97deb8f8f2c95a2c6 Tom Mazanec deposited The Invention of Chinese Buddhist Poetry: Poet-Monks in Late Medieval China (c. 760-960) in the group TC Religion and Literature https://mla.hcommons.org/activity/p/1571748/ Fri, 26 May 2017 20:11:11 -0400 This dissertation presents an alternative history of late medieval literature, one which traces the development of Chinese Buddhist poetry into a fully autonomous tradition. It does so through a careful study of the works of poet-monks in the late medieval period (760–960). These poet-monks established a tradition of elite Buddhist poetry in c…[Read more]

]]> 0 33c43b7288bea830e3bcaa3baeff7b37 Misty G. Anderson started the topic Religion in American Public Discourse in the discussion Literature and Religion https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/religion-and-literature/forum/topic/religion-in-american-public-discourse/ Mon, 06 Feb 2017 19:35:35 -0500 Competitive session co-sponsored by the Religion and Literature Forum and the Forum on Nonfiction Prose.  Religion has long figured in the public discourse of the United States.  During election season in particular, religious issues figure in campaign and more generally political discourse.  President Donald Trump has recently declared the U.…[Read more]

]]> 0 5bf710fec087530a3657001d4d7c90f0 Phillip Lundberg replied to the topic Esoteric Christianity & Josef K.!'s meeting with the "Priest" - MLA 2018 NYC. in the discussion Literature and Religion https://mla.hcommons.org/groups/religion-and-literature/forum/topic/esoteric-christianity-josef-k-s-meeting-with-the-priest-mla-2018-nyc/#post-1012775 Tue, 03 Jan 2017 01:24:45 -0500 NYC 2018 – Special Session Call for Papers: ETHICS & KNOWLEDGE
Bringing PLATO, CHRIST and Kafka together (Know Thyself; I AM; I am not (yet)) –
An unusual mix of Philosophy, Religion & Literature that hopes to bring light upon the most important matters:
Freedom & Necessity; Josef K. and Christ the JUDGE being man’s Higher Self as indicated in Ka…[Read more]

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