Nonfiction Religion: Creative Storytelling About Religious Life

Academics often want to break out of scholarly confines and write more creatively. This session offers an opportunity for several scholars and writers to share their works in creative nonfiction, telling stories of religious people, places, and events in modes beyond the scholarly retellings. Along the way, the insider-outsider division is toyed with and questioned, as is the very mode of writing about religious history and characters. With a toe in nonfiction writing, journalism, and scholarly pursuits, the presenters bring new ideas and situations to light by offering non-academic styles and modes of enquiry.