Imagining The Sacred
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Imagining The Sacred
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Author : Vernon Ruland
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1998
Imagining The Sacred written by Vernon Ruland and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Religion categories.
"Imagining the sacred" helps readers expand their imagination and experience what it means to live, wonder, think and pray from within a religious tradition other than one's own. As neighborhood skylines in every region in the world grow richer with a montage of church spires, mosques, synagogues, and temples, Ruland surveys this living and evolving religious world.
Figuring The Sacred
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Author : Paul Ricœur
language : en
Publisher: Fortress Press
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Figuring The Sacred written by Paul Ricœur and has been published by Fortress Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on with Religion categories.
The 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.
Imagining The Sacred In Popular Culture
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Author : Mark W. Macwilliams
language : en
Publisher: Gower Publishing Company, Limited
Release Date : 2007
Imagining The Sacred In Popular Culture written by Mark W. Macwilliams and has been published by Gower Publishing Company, Limited this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with categories.
This book explores central issues of religion in an age of globalization, questioning how religion speaks to us in contemporary society, and how representations of religion impact in popular culture. Focusing on Japanese popular culture, MacWilliams examines Japanese comic books in particular: Japanese manga or 'comic books' often explicitly deal with religion, and commercially published manga account for over 40% of total number of books and magazines published in Japan. The magic of manga lies in their potential "to dramatise and exaggerate information and simplify a complex reality", and just like the religious iconography of an earlier age, modern manga offer a powerful visual theology of sacred reality for their audience. What 'imagined selves and worlds' do manga construct? What are some of the important visual theologies that they can convey? These are some of the questions explored in this book. Historians of religion have largely ignored popular culture as a medium of religious experience and expression; yet by neglecting popular genres, such as Japanese manga, they ignore one of the principal ways people day wrestle with contemporary moral and spiritual issues. This book redresses this neglected area, raising profound religious and moral issues that are immediately relevant for those exploring Japanese religion, media and cultural studies, and anyone trying to imagine the sacred today.
Imagining The Sacred Past
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Author : Samantha Kahn Herrick
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2007-03-31
Imagining The Sacred Past written by Samantha Kahn Herrick and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-03-31 with History categories.
In 911, the French king ceded land along the river Seine to Rollo the Viking, on condition that he convert to Christianity. This work advances our understanding of early Normandy and the Vikings' transformation from pagan raiders to Christian princes. It also sheds light on the intersection of religious tradition, identity, and power.
Imagining The Sacred In Australian Wilderness
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Author : Jennifer Mitchell
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Imagining The Sacred In Australian Wilderness written by Jennifer Mitchell and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Art and mythology categories.
The Sacred And The Feminine
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Author : Griselda Pollock
language : en
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Release Date : 2007-11-28
The Sacred And The Feminine written by Griselda Pollock and has been published by I.B. Tauris this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-11-28 with Social Science categories.
Explores the sacred and the feminine in art, architecture, literature, art history, music, philosophy, theology, critical theory and cultural studies. This book addresses key issues in feminist questions of creativity, the imaginary and the sacred as 'otherness', examining the ways in which visual practices have explored this territory.
Imagining The Holy Land
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Author : Burke O. Long
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2003
Imagining The Holy Land written by Burke O. Long and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with History categories.
At the Chautauqua Institution in New York, visitors could walk down Palestine Avenue to "Palestine" and a model of Jerusalem, or along Morris Avenue to a scale model of the "Jewish Tabernacle." At the St. Louis World's Fair of 1904, a replica of Ottoman Jerusalem covered eleven acres, while today, 300 miles to the southeast, a seven-story-high Christ of the Ozarks stands above a modern re-creation of the Holy Land set in the Arkansas hills."--BOOK JACKET.
Religion Literature And The Imagination
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Author : Mark Knight
language : en
Publisher: A&C Black
Release Date : 2011-11-03
Religion Literature And The Imagination written by Mark Knight and has been published by A&C Black this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
The study of religion and literature continues to go from strength to strength - this collection of essays offers a dynamic, lively and provocative contribution to the field and aims to map out new directions it might take. By returning to foundational questions regarding the relation between words and worlds and the parameters of the sacred, the essays explore different ways of using interdisciplinary resources to open up our understanding of religion and literature. Contributions from some of the leading voices in the field unite to offer an important exploration of the possible worlds that the study of religion and literature imagines.
God And The Creative Imagination
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Author : Paul Avis
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-01-11
God And The Creative Imagination written by Paul Avis and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-01-11 with Religion categories.
'A mere metaphor', 'only symbolic', 'just a myth' - these tell tale phrases reveal how figurative language has been cheapened and devalued in our modern and postmodern culture. In God and the Creative Imagination, Paul Avis argues the contrary: we see that actually, metaphor, symbol and myth, are the key to a real knowledge of God and the sacred. Avis examines what he calls an alternative tradition, stemming from the Romantic poets Blake, Wordsworth and Keats and drawing on the thought of Cleridge and Newman, and experience in both modern philosophy and science. God and the Creative Imagination intriguingly draws on a number of non-theological disciplines, from literature to philosophy of science, to show us that God is appropriately likened to an artist or poet and that the greatest truths are expressed in an imaginative form. Anyone wishing to further their understanding of God, belief and the imagination will find this an inspiring work.
The Corporeal Imagination
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Author : Patricia Cox Miller
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2012-02-28
The Corporeal Imagination written by Patricia Cox Miller and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-28 with Religion categories.
With few exceptions, the scholarship on religion in late antiquity has emphasized its tendencies toward transcendence, abstraction, and spirit at the expense of matter. In The Corporeal Imagination, Patricia Cox Miller argues instead that ancient Christianity took a material turn between the fourth and seventh centuries. During this period, Miller contends, there occurred a major shift in the ways in which the human being was oriented in relation to the divine, a shift that reconfigured the relationship between materiality and meaning in a positive direction. The Corporeal Imagination is a groundbreaking investigation into the theological poetics of material substance in late ancient Christian texts. From hagiographies to literary descriptions of sacred paintings to treatises on relics and theurgy, Miller examines a wide variety of ancient texts to reveal how Christian writers increasingly described the matter of the world as invested with divine power. By appealing to the reader's sensory imagination, Christian texts endowed phenomena like relics, saints' bodies in hagiography, and saints' presence in icons with a visual and tactile presence. The book draws on a variety of contemporary theoretical models to elucidate the significance of all these materials in ancient religious life and imagination.