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Faith, Fundamentalism, and Fanaticism in the Age of Terror
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Artikel-Nr:
9781611487442
Veröffentl:
2016
Seiten:
268
Autor:
Liliana M. Naydan
eBook Typ:
EPUB
eBook Format:
Reflowable
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
This book addresses representations of belief in the polarized post-9/11 Age of Terror. Naydan tracks how both major and less-known contemporary authors of diverse religious heritages negotiate religious and ideological differences that involve secularism and atheism on the one hand and religious fundamentalism and fanaticism on the other.
Rhetorics of Religion in American Fiction considers the way in which contemporary
American authors address the subject of belief in the post-9/11 Age of Terror. Naydan
suggests that after 9/11, fiction by Mohsin Hamid, Laila Halaby, Philip Roth, Don
DeLillo, John Updike, and Barbara Kingsolver dramatizes and works to resolve impasses
that exist between believers of different kinds at the extremes. These impasses emerge
out of the religious paradox that shapes America as simultaneously theocratic and
secular, and they exist, for instance, between liberals and fundamentalists, between
liberals and certain evangelicals, between fundamentalists and artists, and between
fundamentalists of different varieties. Ultimately, Naydan argues that these authors
function as literary theologians of sorts and forge a relevant space beyond or between
extremes. They fashion faith or lack thereof as hybridized and hence as a negotiation
among secularism, atheism, faith, fundamentalism, and fanaticism. In so doing, they
invite their readers into contemplations of religious difference and new ways of
memorializing 9/11.
American authors address the subject of belief in the post-9/11 Age of Terror. Naydan
suggests that after 9/11, fiction by Mohsin Hamid, Laila Halaby, Philip Roth, Don
DeLillo, John Updike, and Barbara Kingsolver dramatizes and works to resolve impasses
that exist between believers of different kinds at the extremes. These impasses emerge
out of the religious paradox that shapes America as simultaneously theocratic and
secular, and they exist, for instance, between liberals and fundamentalists, between
liberals and certain evangelicals, between fundamentalists and artists, and between
fundamentalists of different varieties. Ultimately, Naydan argues that these authors
function as literary theologians of sorts and forge a relevant space beyond or between
extremes. They fashion faith or lack thereof as hybridized and hence as a negotiation
among secularism, atheism, faith, fundamentalism, and fanaticism. In so doing, they
invite their readers into contemplations of religious difference and new ways of
memorializing 9/11.
Acknowledgments
Introduction: The Paradox of Religion in America and American Literature
Chapter 1:Uncertain Faith for Islamic Others after 9/11: Capitalist and Religious Fundamentalisms in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Laila Halaby’s Once in a Promised Land
Chapter 2:Beyond Religious, Atheistic, and Capitalist Fundamentalisms for Post-9/11 Jewish Others: The Rhetoric of Art in Philip Roth’s Everyman and Exit Ghost
Chapter 3:Toward a Post-9/11 Rhetoric of Catholic Mystery: Terror and Fundamentalism in Don DeLillo’s “Baader-Meinhof” and Point Omega
Chapter 4:Emergent Varieties of Religious Experience from a Protestant Perspective: Fundamentalist, Fanatical, and Hybrid Faith in John Updike’s “Varieties of Religious Experience” andTerrorist
Chapter 5:Between Protestantism and Pantheism: Post-9/11 Rhetorics of Nature, Science, and Religion in Barbara Kingsolver’s Small Wonder and Flight Behavior
Conclusion: Memorializing 9/11 through Interfaith Dialogue with and about American Fiction about Religion
Bibliography
Index
About the Author
Introduction: The Paradox of Religion in America and American Literature
Chapter 1:Uncertain Faith for Islamic Others after 9/11: Capitalist and Religious Fundamentalisms in Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist and Laila Halaby’s Once in a Promised Land
Chapter 2:Beyond Religious, Atheistic, and Capitalist Fundamentalisms for Post-9/11 Jewish Others: The Rhetoric of Art in Philip Roth’s Everyman and Exit Ghost
Chapter 3:Toward a Post-9/11 Rhetoric of Catholic Mystery: Terror and Fundamentalism in Don DeLillo’s “Baader-Meinhof” and Point Omega
Chapter 4:Emergent Varieties of Religious Experience from a Protestant Perspective: Fundamentalist, Fanatical, and Hybrid Faith in John Updike’s “Varieties of Religious Experience” andTerrorist
Chapter 5:Between Protestantism and Pantheism: Post-9/11 Rhetorics of Nature, Science, and Religion in Barbara Kingsolver’s Small Wonder and Flight Behavior
Conclusion: Memorializing 9/11 through Interfaith Dialogue with and about American Fiction about Religion
Bibliography
Index
About the Author