REL 262, 263 - Religion & Literature

Course unit(s): 1
Meets GAR: Meets general academic requirement HU (and W when offered as 263).
This course provides an exploration of the ways in which literary imagination (metaphor, literary style, narrative voice, description, creative manipulation of time and place) interacts with religious imagination (projections of tradition, expression of mystical experience, ritual, symbolic phenomena) to produce works of a transformative nature. Examples from both Eastern and Western literary traditions may be chosen.