A 2016 course by James McGrath at Butler University explores “big questions” through the lens of religion and science fiction.
A 2002 course by Amir Hussain and Crerar Douglas at California State University, Northridge, includes “a close reading of Blake’s biography . . . [and] the art and poetry that he created.”
A 1999 course by Darren Middleton at Texas Christian University explores “construals of God through a combination of novels, short fiction, and memoir extracts, on the one hand, and through a sustained reflection on Jack Miles’s literary study of the God of the Hebrew Bible, his God: A Biography, on the other hand.”
A 2010 course by Ken Brashier at Reed College aims “to learn the mechanics of translation and to develop an awareness of what it means to transform the words of one culture to that of another.”
A 2008 course by Joseph Edelheit at St. Cloud State University “offers a survey-overview of Jewish literature in the 20th century.”
A 1998 course by Lissa McCullough at New York University explores religious themes in great works of Western literature.
A 2010 course by Ann Grodzins Gold at Syracuse University uses stories “to learn about several different religious worlds” and particular issues that cut across them.
A 1999 course by Ann Matter at the University of Pennsylvania “explores some ways in which religious ideas and practices appear in works of literature from different cultures” with a focus on the modern period and the Christian tradition.
A 2000 course by Alan Altany at Marshall University uses “journals, fiction, and web exploration . . . (to access) the spiritual insights of various persons as they portray their search for and experience of
what religions call the sacred” with special attention to the concept of place.
