Fault Lines of Modernity: New Contexts for Religion, Ethics and Literature

The fault lines of modernity often fissure around class, race, ethnicity, gender, region and religion, but when humanists conceptualize modes for thinking about these rifts, religion appears compromised by its ideals and complicit in fostering alienation, oppression and exclusion. Some scholars even argue that religion by itself inhibits thought; thought cannot negotiate the displacements of social crisis if impeded by religion's "grand narratives." Is it necessary to jettison religion in order to put the aesthetic into relation with the ethical? What new subject positions are produced because of the convergence of religion, ethics and literature? Free.