Culture, Communion and Recovery: Tolkienian Fairy-Story and Inter-Religious Exchange
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| Title: | Culture, Communion and Recovery: Tolkienian Fairy-Story and Inter-Religious Exchange |
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| Description: | Recent scholarship on Tolkien has been especially attentive not only to the importance of religion in his personal life, but also to the wider theological implications which may be drawn from his works. In this study, Alana M. Vincent argues that the cultural influence of The Lord of the Rings provides an excellent model for understanding the mutually transformative relationship between religion and culture, and in so doing also provides an important and unexplored pathway for inter-religious exchange. |
| Authors: | Alana M. Vincent, Author |
| Resource Type: | eBook. |
| Subjects: | Ethics in literature, Fiction--Religious aspects, Myth in literature, Didactic fiction, English--History and criticism, Fantasy fiction, English--History and criticism, Middle Earth (Imaginary place), Religion and literature--History--20th century |
| Categories: | LITERARY CRITICISM / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh |
| Database: | eBook Collection (EBSCOhost) |
| Abstract: | Recent scholarship on Tolkien has been especially attentive not only to the importance of religion in his personal life, but also to the wider theological implications which may be drawn from his works. In this study, Alana M. Vincent argues that the cultural influence of The Lord of the Rings provides an excellent model for understanding the mutually transformative relationship between religion and culture, and in so doing also provides an important and unexplored pathway for inter-religious exchange. |
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| ISBN: | 9781443840514 9781443842952 |
