Open AccessBlending Christianity and Ecology in Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood
Author(s) -
Laura Suchostawska
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
explorations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2353-6969
DOI - 10.25167/exp13.20.8.8
Subject(s) - christianity , flood myth , cult , ecology , history , literature , sociology , philosophy , archaeology , theology , art , biology
The article presents a study of selected sermons and hymns created by a fictional eco-religious cult called God’s Gardeners, which appear in Margaret Atwood’s novel The Year of the Flood. These texts are analyzed by means of Fauconnier and Turner’s theory of blending (conceptual integration). They are a mixture of different areas: the Bible and Christianity, on the one hand, and current environmental issues and science, on the other. The application of blending theory demonstrates how new interpretations of the Bible can be constructed as a result of blending two or more different input spaces to form a new story.