Religion without Belief
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Religion without Belief

Contemporary Allegory and the Search for Postmodern Faith

  1. 209 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Religion without Belief

Contemporary Allegory and the Search for Postmodern Faith

About this book

Shows there is a strong religious impulse in postmodern literature and film.

In our present cultural moment, when God is supposed to be dead and metaphysical speculation unfashionable, why does postmodern fiction-in a variety of genres-make such frequent use of the ancient rhetorical form of allegory? In Religion without Belief, Jean Ellen Petrolle argues that contrary to popular understandings of postmodernism as an irreligious and amoral climate, postmodern allegory remains deeply engaged in the quest for religious insight. Examining a range of films and novels, this book shows that postmodern fiction, despite its posturing about the unverifiable nature of truth and reality, routinely offers theological and cosmological speculation. Works considered include virtual-reality films such as The Matrix and The Truman Show, avant-garde films, and Amerindian and feminist novels.

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Table of contents

  1. Religion without Belief
  2. Contents
  3. Acknowledgments
  4. 1. Rethinking Postmodernism
  5. 2. Rescuing the Real, Part I: Allegory, Body, and Humanness in the Virtual Reality Film
  6. 3. Rescuing the Real, Part II: Allegory, Deconstruction, and Negative Theology in Feminist Experimental Novels
  7. 4. Confronting Suffering, Part I: Allegory, Interpretation, and Quests for Deliverance in Avant-Garde Film
  8. 5. Confronting Suffering, Part II: Allegory,Magic, and History in the Amerindian Novel
  9. 6. Cause or Cure? Postmodernism and Religious Fundamentalism
  10. Notes
  11. Works Cited
  12. Index