Literature and Religion as Intergeneric Narratives
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https://doi.org/10.59045/nalans.2025.89Keywords:
Myth, religion, literature, narrative, genre, discourseAbstract
The present review article raises the questions of whether the literature offers any sense and meaning for the contemporary age, what its potential is to take over the role of religion, and to what extent it can offer a moral and epistemological ground for humanity in the wake of posthumanism. To do this, the present review article first posits the problem, second provides a review of significant scholars, and lastly discusses them from a contemporary lens. This study reviews how these parallel matrices of meaning-making bring together levels of narrative, ritual, and representation through myth, religion, and literature, and discusses how narrative, as a metaphor, accounts for their impact as resonant myths. Accordingly, the present study questions whether literature can function as a substitute for religion. Apart from discourse levels, these narratives provide an epistemological and ethical ground for humanity. Hence, this study will pursue insights into how certain theoretical views can be revisited from a contemporary perspective.
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