Lecture will show that the legacy of religion belongs to everybody

Tuesday, November 5th, 2013

An unusual religious background has left a Victoria University of Wellington Professor of English with a taste for secular writing containing religious ideas.

In his upcoming inaugural professorial lecture, titled ‘When You’re Dead You Go on Television: Sex, Death and Household Objects in Some New Zealand Poetry’,

Williams says his lecture will show that the legacy of religion belongs to everybody—not just religious people.

“Religion has power in our language, our thought, our writing and our art.”. Continue Reading

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