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Author: Lynda Sexson
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 148
ISBN-13: 9780813914169
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA reprint, without change, of the Crossroad edition published in 1982. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Howard Thurman
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Published: 2019-04-21
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781611179491
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe landmark publication of the early writings of this pioneering voice for social justice.
Author: Aníbal González
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2018-05-03
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 0822983028
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Search of the Sacred Book studies the artistic incorporation of religious concepts such as prophecy, eternity, and the afterlife in the contemporary Latin American novel. It departs from sociopolitical readings by noting the continued relevance of religion in Latin American life and culture, despite modernity's powerful secularizing influence. Analyzing Jorge Luis Borges's secularized "narrative theology" in his essays and short stories, the book follows the development of the Latin American novel from the early twentieth century until today by examining the attempts of major novelists, from María Luisa Bombal, Alejo Carpentier, and Juan Rulfo, to Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, and José Lezama Lima, to "sacralize" the novel by incorporating traits present in the sacred texts of many religions. It concludes with a view of the "desacralization" of the novel by more recent authors, from Elena Poniatowska and Fernando Vallejo to Roberto Bolaño.
Author: Todd E. Johnson
Publisher: Baker Academic
Published: 2009-08
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 080102952X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA theologian and a theatre artist examine both the nature of theatrical performance within contemporary culture and its relationship to Christian life, faith, and worship.
Author: Joseph Clifford Fenton
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Published: 1941
Total Pages: 298
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Guy L. Beck
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 9788120812611
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jean Holm
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2001-01-01
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 1623566231
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the function of buildings for worship, shrines and pilgrimage centers, and the part they play in the lives of individuals and the community, while also recognizing that "sacred place" is not defined as architectural buildings.
Author: David J. Collins, S. J.
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2019-05-17
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 0271084391
DOWNLOAD EBOOKInspired by the work of eminent scholar Richard Kieckhefer, The Sacred and the Sinister explores the ambiguities that made (and make) medieval religion and magic so difficult to differentiate. The essays in this collection investigate how the holy and unholy were distinguished in medieval Europe, where their characteristics diverged, and the implications of that deviation. In the Middle Ages, the natural world was understood as divinely created and infused with mysterious power. This world was accessible to human knowledge and susceptible to human manipulation through three modes of engagement: religion, magic, and science. How these ways of understanding developed in light of modern notions of rationality is an important element of ongoing scholarly conversation. As Kieckhefer has emphasized, ambiguity and ambivalence characterize medieval understandings of the divine and demonic powers at work in the world. The ten chapters in this volume focus on four main aspects of this assertion: the cult of the saints, contested devotional relationships and practices, unsettled judgments between magic and religion, and inconclusive distinctions between magic and science. Freshly insightful, this study of ambiguity between magic and religion will be of special interest to scholars in the fields of medieval studies, religious studies, European history, and the history of science. In addition to the editor, the contributors to this volume are Michael D. Bailey, Kristi Woodward Bain, Maeve B. Callan, Elizabeth Casteen, Claire Fanger, Sean L. Field, Anne M. Koenig, Katelyn Mesler, and Sophie Page.
Author: Paul Ricœur
Publisher: Fortress Press
Published:
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9781451415704
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe thought of Paul Ricoeur continues its profound effect on theology, religious studies and biblical interpretation. The 28 papers contained in this volume constitute the most comprehensive overview of Ricoeur's writings in religion since 1970. Ricoeur's hermeneutical orientation and his sensitivity to the mystery of religious language offer fresh insight to the transformative potential of sacred literature, including the Bible.
Author: Robert A. Yelle
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2018-11-26
Total Pages: 281
ISBN-13: 022658559X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSovereignty and the Sacred challenges contemporary models of polity and economy through a two-step engagement with the history of religions. Beginning with the recognition of the convergence in the history of European political theology between the sacred and the sovereign as creating “states of exception”—that is, moments of rupture in the normative order that, by transcending this order, are capable of re-founding or remaking it—Robert A. Yelle identifies our secular, capitalist system as an attempt to exclude such moments by subordinating them to the calculability of laws and markets. The second step marshals evidence from history and anthropology that helps us to recognize the contribution of such states of exception to ethical life, as a means of release from the legal or economic order. Yelle draws on evidence from the Hebrew Bible to English deism, and from the Aztecs to ancient India, to develop a theory of polity that finds a place and a purpose for those aspects of religion that are often marginalized and dismissed as irrational by Enlightenment liberalism and utilitarianism. Developing this close analogy between two elemental domains of society, Sovereignty and the Sacred offers a new theory of religion while suggesting alternative ways of organizing our political and economic life. By rethinking the transcendent foundations and liberating potential of both religion and politics, Yelle points to more hopeful and ethical modes of collective life based on egalitarianism and popular sovereignty. Deliberately countering the narrowness of currently dominant economic, political, and legal theories, he demonstrates the potential of a revived history of religions to contribute to a rethinking of the foundations of our political and social order.
