Special Issue Editor
Prof. Dr. John Hawley
Guest Editor
Department of English, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA 95053, USA
Interests: Victorian and postcolonial literatures; gender studies; intersection between religion and literature
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue seeks to update the study of religion from a postcolonial theoretical approach to include not only Christianity but also the other major world religions, and to explore the uses to which religion has been put—both in the further imposition of varieties of colonization, and also in resistance to powerful economic and military forces in various cultures and colonizing (and decolonizing) projects.
On the one hand, there is stultifying and mechanistic formalism, institutional self-preservation, pacification of the masses, and patriarchal intransigence; on the other hand, theology from below, renegade priests and nuns, local artistic and musical expression that speaks truth to power—heretical, blasphemous, and ecstatic disruption. Sometimes a comfort, sometimes a spur to rebellion. Essays on literature’s responses to these countervailing winds will be included, as will those that treat either popular and high art or music.
How is cultural representation manipulated by religion? In what ways should Karl Marx’s usually truncated observation be interpreted today: “Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.” How does this two-edged sword find expression in Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, Judaism, Sikhism, African traditional religions, and others? What postcolonial role do Atheism and Gnosticism play, if any?
Prof. Dr. John Hawley
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- religion
- postcolonial theoretical approach
- colonization
- postcolonial literature
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