Traveling in New Mexico in 1971, Will George converts to Bhakti Dharma, a new religious movement influenced by Hinduism and Sikh tradition. Returning to his home in Minnesota, he renounces his previous life, provoking a crisis for everyone in his family. Peter, Will’s older brother, is a graduate student at the University of Chicago who …
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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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The twentieth century has been called a “century of horror”. Proof of that designation can be found in the vast and ever-increasing volume of scholarly work on violence, trauma, memory, and history across diverse academic disciplines. This book demonstrates not only the ways in which the wars of the twentieth century have altered theological engagement …
In this groundbreaking, interdisciplinary history of ideas, Andrew W. Hass explores the ascendency of the concept of nothing into late modernity. He argues that the rise of the reality of nothing in religion, philosophy, and literature has taken place only against the decline of the concept of One: a shift from a sovereign understanding of …
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 Drawing on original archival research and analyses of newly published and currently unpublished writings by H.D., Elizabeth Anderson shows how the …
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The Ming Prince and Daoism: Institutional Patronage of an Elite Oxford University Press ISBN13: 9780199767687 ISBN10: 0199767688 Hardback, 336 pages Jul 2012 Scholars of Daoism in the Ming dynasty (1368-1644) have paid particular attention to the interaction between the court and certain Daoist priests and to the political results of such interaction; the focus has …
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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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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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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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 …
