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2023-2024 Graduate Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

RE 417 Religion and Its Expression in Literature


Through the readings of this course, the student will become acquainted with writers who have religious and spiritual ideas, concerns, questions and doubts. Some of the topics explored are: religious imagery, religion as an institution, historical and cultural influences, identity and community, authority and justice, atonement and redemption, meditation and harmony with nature. Selected authors are: James Baldwin, Berthold Brecht, Albert Camus, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Laotzu, Peter Matthiessen, Ian McEwan, Arthur Miller, and John Patrick Shanley.