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From: Monica Edinger <monicaedinger>
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 06:51:14 -0500
On 6/25/05, Maia Cheli-Colando wrote: So... Monica, do you mean certain kinds of religion? E.g. Christian
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I was thinking of realistic fiction and the majority religion in the US, Christianity. I agree that religion, faith, and spirituality are often in works of fantasy, but I wasn't thinking of that genre. Nor of works that are intended to inform readers about a faith/culture with which they are less familiar.
What prompted my post was that it seems to me (as, I believe, someone else commented) that many Americans are skittish about many of the issues being discussed here (e.g. sexual orientation and sex) because of an underlying religious belief system, one built on a Puritan history. And so many of the polls and things I read about Americans does seem so influenced by majority religious beliefs. Yet I don't see very many books focusing on this aspect of young people's lives, something that affects so much else for them and everyone around them.
(Godless is one that does.) I suspect this is too far for many. Others before me have noted that religion is the last taboo.
Monica
Monica Edinger The Dalton School New York NY edinger at dalton.org monicaedinger at gmail.com
Received on Sun 26 Jun 2005 06:51:14 AM CDT
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2005 06:51:14 -0500
On 6/25/05, Maia Cheli-Colando wrote: So... Monica, do you mean certain kinds of religion? E.g. Christian
so
I was thinking of realistic fiction and the majority religion in the US, Christianity. I agree that religion, faith, and spirituality are often in works of fantasy, but I wasn't thinking of that genre. Nor of works that are intended to inform readers about a faith/culture with which they are less familiar.
What prompted my post was that it seems to me (as, I believe, someone else commented) that many Americans are skittish about many of the issues being discussed here (e.g. sexual orientation and sex) because of an underlying religious belief system, one built on a Puritan history. And so many of the polls and things I read about Americans does seem so influenced by majority religious beliefs. Yet I don't see very many books focusing on this aspect of young people's lives, something that affects so much else for them and everyone around them.
(Godless is one that does.) I suspect this is too far for many. Others before me have noted that religion is the last taboo.
Monica
Monica Edinger The Dalton School New York NY edinger at dalton.org monicaedinger at gmail.com
Received on Sun 26 Jun 2005 06:51:14 AM CDT
