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New Book: Hegel and the Art of Negation by Andrew Hass

Why is the philosopher Hegel returning as a potent force in contemporary thinking? Why, after a long period when Hegel and his dialectics of history have seemed less compelling than they were for previous generations of philosophers, is study of Hegel again becoming important? Fashionably contemporary theorists like Francis Fukuyama and Slavoj Zizek, as well …

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New Publication: H.D. and Modernist Religious Imagination, by Elizabeth Anderson

Exploring the intersection of religious sensibility and creativity in the poetry and prose of the American modernist writer H.D., this volume examines the nexus of the religious, the visionary, the creative and the material. Drawing on original archival research and analyses of newly published and currently unpublished writings by H.D., Elizabeth Anderson shows how the …

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New Publication: The Sacred Community, by David Jasper

Liturgical, sacramental, and historical, The Sacred Community is a masterful work of theological aesthetics. David Jasper draws upon a rich variety of texts and images from literature, art, and religious tradition to explore the liturgical community gathered around-and most fully constituted by-the moment of the Sanctus in the Eucharistic liturgy. From art and architecture to …

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New Publication: Resisting the Place of Belonging, edited by Dan Boscaljon

This book challenges our assumptions about the value of home, arguing for the ethical value of our feeling displaced and homeless in the 21st century. Home is explored in places ranging from digital keyboards to literary texts, and investigates how we mediate our homecomings aesthetically through cultural artifacts and conceptual structures (philosophy, theology, ethics and …

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New Publication: Because of Beauvoir, by Alison Jasper

Because of Beauvoir does what many say is impossible: it demonstrates how women can flourish, without conflict, while being simultaneously Christian and feminist. Alison Jasper offers a vision of Julia Kristeva’s “female genius” as the capacity of women to thrive and cultivate intellect within and across different cultural and theological environments. Using the writings of …

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New Publication: Textual Intimacy: Autobiography and Religious Identities, by Wesley Kort

Textual Intimacy: Autobiography and Religious Identities, by Wesley Kort. University of Virginia Press. Buy direct from publisher Buy from Amazon Given its natural affinity with questions of identity, autobiography offers a way into the interior space between author and reader, especially when writers define themselves in relation to religion. In his exploration of this “textual …

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