CORAL

Comparative Religions and Literatures

Comparative Religions and Literatures (CoRAL) promotes the reciprocal and dynamic relationship between religions, literatures and cultures.

We cite Derek Walcott's description of 'coral' in his poem, Omeros (1990), as a communal, living, evolving form to shape our research objectives. Walcott's imagining of coral through metaphors of hybridity and patience is suggestive of our exploration of religions as historical, cultural, social and phenomenological sites that allow for and enable new ways of reading and interpreting texts.

CoRAL was established in 2012 to consolidate a variety of work on world religion and literature being undertaken by staff, postgraduates and postdoctoral students. The group emerged from a reading group on religion and literature begun in 2008.