Open AccessReligion, literature and identity in South Africa: the case of Alan Paton
Author(s) -
David Levey
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
koers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2304-8557
pISSN - 0023-270X
DOI - 10.4102/koers.v72i1.192
Subject(s) - incarnation , identity (music) , field (mathematics) , value (mathematics) , sociology , epistemology , gender studies , history , philosophy , aesthetics , theology , mathematics , machine learning , computer science , pure mathematics
This article draws on recent research into the early unpublished work of Alan Paton to suggest that the interrelationship of (English-language) literature and religion in South Africa is a much under-researched field despite numerous examples of such research elsewhere. One short case study based on Paton’s lecture on “God in modern thought” (1934) is offered. The value of a hermeneutic approach to literature that considers human identity in terms of incarnation, for example, is briefly argued and other possibilities suggested