Literature and Religion: A Dialogue Between China and the West - Paperback

by David Jasper (Author), Ou Guang-An (Author)

How does one culture "read" another? This book is a series of conversations between a scholar from China and a scholar from the West, each reading texts from the other's culture. One of the key issues is the nature of religion and what we understand by that term in a world in which ancient religious and customs seem to be dying or under threat. Does literature and religion offer the possibility of mutual understanding--or merely illustrate our differences? These conversations between scholars are also between friends. And that, too, is important.

Author Biography

David Jasper is Emeritus Professor at the University of Glasgow, Scotland, and was for many years Changjiang Chair Professor at Renmin University of China, Beijing.

Ou Guang-an is Professor of English Literature and Comparative Literature at the College of Foreign Languages, Shihezi University, China.