# Is literature essential to religion?

- Institution: Gresham College
- Speaker: The Rt Revd Lord Harries
- Year: 2008
- Level: For everyone
- Language: English
- Subjects: Religion, Literature and writing
- Source: [Gresham College](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/watch-now/literature-essential-religion)
- Licence: [Educational use (Gresham College's terms)](https://www.gresham.ac.uk/terms-and-conditions)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (sources give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the source's own words)

The relationship between literature and religion has sometimes been one of hostility, sometimes one in which they have occupied separate worlds. Today the relationship is at once more intimate and more complex. This lecture will explore the various ways in which literature enriches and deepens a religious view of life. At the same time it will suggest that literature itself might be open to a critique from the outside.

## Lectures

1. [Is literature essential to religion?](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/learn/gresham/literature-essential-religion/04ad0216424c) (YouTube)