Timeline for Should we allow questions about religious texts?
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| Feb 22, 2022 at 14:37 | comment | added | Sean Duggan | @StuartF: I'm specifically addressing the "as fiction" aspect of it. Admittedly, many history books and biographies are also partially fictional, but generally, we don't refer to "the fiction book, Barack Obama: Life in Brief" or use it as an answer if someone says they're looking for a fictional book about a black president. Similarly, religious texts are generally considered to be non-fiction, although there exist fictional works about religion like Jesus Christ: Vampire Hunter or Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ's Childhood Pal. | |
| Feb 22, 2022 at 14:25 | comment | added | Stuart F | Not sure what this means. Isn't treating the Bible as literature implicitly treating it as fiction because there's an assumption that most literature is fictional, and literary analysis is largely uninterested in truth? Or do you mean assuming the Bible/Quran was written by a human being rather than by God, which would also seem to be necessary for meaningful literary analysis? | |
| Jan 26, 2022 at 17:45 | comment | added | Sean Duggan | @Laurel: I think your question was fine. Now, we're just discussing what appropriate answers are. :) | |
| Jan 26, 2022 at 17:14 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor Mod | @Laurel There's some discussion going on in private that hasn't reached a conclusion yet. It could be worth a meta post too, but don't feel pressure to do that if you're already feeling drained. | |
| Jan 26, 2022 at 12:09 | comment | added | Laurel | @Randal'Thor Do you think that the specific situation that triggered this (the answer to my question) needs to be brought up on meta separately? I guess I could do that though I already feel drained from this situation. | |
| Jan 25, 2022 at 18:15 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor Mod | This is a good clarification to the general policy that religious texts are on-topic here, but unfortunately it's unlikely to get noticed or sufficiently upvoted from so far down the page. I'd argue that it's already implicit in the top answer - "So yes, I think we can take religious stories. By doing so, we wouldn't be calling them fictional because they're side by side with stories that someone made up ten or twenty years ago. We'd be doing literary analysis on a story that's just pretty old." - but I don't know if everyone would agree. | |
| Jan 25, 2022 at 14:13 | history | answered | Sean Duggan | CC BY-SA 4.0 |