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How does one culture 'read' another? In Literature and Religion, two scholars, one from China and one from the West, each read texts from the other's culture as a means of dialogue. A key issue in such an enterprise is the nature of religion and what we understand by that term in a world in which ancient religious customs seem to be dying or under threat. Does a comparative study of religious literature offer a way towards mutual understanding - or merely illustrate our differences? Underpinned by their own friendship, these two partners in conversation show what is possible.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction (David Jasper and Ou Guang-an)
From East to West
1. Literary Similarities and Cultural Differences: A Comparative Study of Zhuangzi and the Book of Job (Ou Guang-an)
2. The Book of Job and Zhuangzi: A Response (David Jasper)
3. A Textual and Cross-Cultural Investigation of "Fate" in Thomas Hardy's Tess of the D'Urbervilles (Ou Guang-an)
4. Thomas Hardy and the Conflict of Cultures: A Response (David Jasper)
5. Religious Perspectives in Yeats's Poetry (Ou Guang-an)
6. Response to Yeats: Sinking in on Truth (David Jasper)
From West to East
7. Issues in Sino-Christian Theology (David Jasper)
8. Response to Issues in Sino-Christian Theology (Ou Guang-an)
9. Towards a Reading of Lu Xun (David Jasper)
10. Response to the Reading of Lu Xun (Ou Guang-an)
11. Seeking Christian Theology in Modern Chinese Fiction: An Exercise for Sino-Christian Theology (David Jasper)
12. Response to Seeking Christian Theology in Modern Chinese Fiction (Ou Guang-an)
Concluding Conversations
13. Concluding Reflections (David Jasper)
14. Final Remarks (Ou Guang-an)
15. Suggested Further Reading
Bibliography
Index
