The relationship of the academic fields of Theology and Literature returns to the forefront of Cultural Studies; a recent sample of this recurrence is the publication of The Cambridge Companion to Literature and Religion (2016). New researchers exploit the findings of older ones (e.g. N. Frye etc) - while there are academic journals specialized to this issue (Literature and Theology, Oxford). We propose a panel which will focus on the following questions: on what terms can Theology and Literature come to a dialogue? Can we discuss about religion and religiousness in the context of (post)modernity? We propose a specialization in Literature of the 20th c. Writers from all the countries of the world have investigated their relation with what we call “religiousness”. From Goethe to Rilke, Eliot etc. Catholics or Protestants, Jews or Christian Orthodox, these writers have used the Bible and other religious texts as the base of their works and they came to an open dialogue with these “sacred”.
Chair: • Marios Moros (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)
Panelists: • Marios Kyparissis Moros (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) - Poetic Christology in Greek postwar poets of the Left: a case study • Francesca Bocca-Aldaqre (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore) - Islamic Theology as a primary source in Goethe’s Divan • Pantelis Kalaitzidis (Volos Academy for Thological Studies) - Christian Orthodoxy and Eroticism in the work of the Frenh Writer Gabriel Matzneff • Agata Starownik (Faculty of “Artes Liberales”, Uniwersytet Warszawski) - Judith in Juliusz Słowacki’s “Ksiądz Marek” in the context of the Bible and the Christian tradition • Ilze Stikāne (University of Latvia) - Howl”: Theology for the Marginalized
