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Inventing the Secular: Literature and Religion from Medieval to Modern

Inventing the Secular: Literature and Religion from Medieval to Modern

Tonning, Erik
O'Neill Tonning, Fionnuala

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Religion and the Arts, Book 25

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 9004737855
ISBN13: 9789004737853
Publisher: Brill
Published: Aug 27 2026
Pages: 408
Weight: 1.68
Height: 0.94 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.25
Language: English
This book explores how literature has actively shaped, rather than merely reflected, ideas of the secular. Bringing together leading scholars from medieval to modern studies, it traces the imaginative, moral, and political inventions through which Western secularity emerged from within religious cultures. The volume offers new genealogies of belief, power, and aesthetics, showing how literary forms--from Chaucer's tales to modernist cityscapes--test and transform inherited theologies. By revealing the secular as a creative, contested, and emotionally charged construction, the book reframes long-standing debates about modernity, faith, and the literary imagination.

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