The course addresses questions such as how religion has influenced the creativity of writers differently in different times and cultures and how writers have responded to religion both in its institutional and spiritual forms. The discussion will pivot on different types of literature from the English Renaissance period through the American Puritanical-Calvinistic era to the present time in both the East and the West. The focus will be on how literature expresses major religious themes such as identity and purpose of humanity, death and immortality, divine will and justice.
