Markus Altena Davidsen: Narrative and Belief

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The Lord of the Rings, Star Wars, and certain other works of fantasy and science fiction have inspired some of their readers and viewers to believe that the superhuman powers of the story-worlds, such as Gandalf and the Force, exist also in the real world. We can say that such fictional narratives possess 'religious affordance', for they contain certain textual features that afford or make possible a religious, rather than just a fictional, use of the text.

This book aims to identify those features of the text that make it possible for a fictional narrative to inspire belief in the supernatural beings of the story, or even to facilitate ritual interaction with these beings. The contributions analyse the religious affordance and actual use of a wide range of texts, spanning from Harry Potter and Star Wars, over The Lord of the Rings and late 19th-century Scandinavian fantasy, to the Christian Gospels. Although we focus on the religious affordance of fictional texts, we also spell out implications for the study of religious narratives in general, and for the narrativist study of religion. This book was originally published as a special issue of the journal Religion.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction - Narrative and Belief: The Religious Affordance of Supernatural Fiction1. The difference between religious narratives and fictional literature: a matter of degree only2. The religious affordance of fiction: towards a catalogue of veracity mechanisms in supernatural narratives3. Contemporary fantasy fiction and representations of religion: playing with reality, myth and magic in His Dark Materials and Harry Potter4.Fiction into religion: imagination, other worlds, and play in the formation of community5. On elves and freethinkers: criticism of religion and the emergence of the literary fantastic in Nordic literature

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2019
Genre:	Religion & Theologie
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780367892128
ISBN-10:	036789212X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Redaktion:	Davidsen, Markus Altena
Hersteller:	Routledge Taylor & Francis
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, D-49078 Osnabrück, mail@preigu.de
Maße:	7 x 174 x 246 mm
Von/Mit:	Markus Altena Davidsen
Erscheinungsdatum:	13.12.2019
Gewicht:	0,25 kg