Comments on: What Makes Religious Writing?

By: Mohamed Mughal

Mohamed Mughal — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 11:48:27 +0000

Using canonical iconography also gives writers a ready device for symbolism. I can’t count how many times I’ve recognized the “Christ figure” in literature, or for that matter, how many times I’ve used it myself in my own writing.

Powerful symbolism!

By: Tammi Kibler @ Write More. Write Fast. Write Now.

Tammi Kibler @ Write More. Write Fast. Write Now. — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 03:32:47 +0000

Interesting synchronicity, I am reading _Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold_ by C.S. Lewis this week. He retells the myth of Cupid and Psyche.

I will check out the Kafka stories this weekend.

Your summary of Vasitthi the Madwoman reminds me of Jane Goodall’s account of a chimpanzee mother who carried her dead infant around for several weeks. Archetypes may run deeper in our psyches than storytelling.

On another note, is is safe to cancel my CWC subscription and trust that these posts will come through my Writerly Life subscription?

By: PurpleMark

PurpleMark — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 18:40:20 +0000

Both of my books would fall into this category. In ‘The Pattern Of Fear’ my Detective dies halfway through the book and spends the next 3 days going through the Sumerian Underworld of Erishkigal who then raises him from the dead. Then in the second book ‘Let Sleeping Gods Lie’, my Detective learns that he has a God within him and goes on to meet Deities from various Pantheons: Sumerian, Egyptian, Mayan, Norse, Hindu in a series of battles against Lovecraft’s Great Old Ones and Elder Gods. I like to call these books Philosophy/Theology texts that masquerade as Detective/Action Adventures.

By: Katie

Katie — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 15:53:30 +0000

I think what makes fiction religious is it become a focus of how the world of the author is seen, or how a main player in the story sees their world. For example, The Eighth Scroll , is a religious fiction with a lot of different points of view, but each of the main players is colored by it in a different way. Its a pretty smart read because of its religious elements and in my mind that is what makes it religious fiction.