Sacred Engagements
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Sacred Engagements
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Author : Alison Conway
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2023-02-14
Sacred Engagements written by Alison Conway and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
"The marriage plot is a ubiquitous theme across the history of the novel, beginning from the earliest examples of long-form prose published in the eighteenth century. What Sacred Engagements brings to this well-trodden area of literary studies is a unique feminist perspective on the relationship between fiction and interfaith marriage during a moment of broader cultural discourse about religious tolerance in England. Conway reads quite broadly for the marriage plot, including among her readings novels by Samuel Richardson, Frances Brooke, Elizabeth Inchbald, and Maria Edgeworth in which minor characters marry outside of their own religious institution, or the novel's hero and heroine have a failed courtship and do not marry by the novel's end. Her intervention at the nexus of literature and religion is also unique; existing studies in this subfield often focus on a particular religious sect and literary representations of it, whereas Conway reads for relationships forged across religious boundaries. While a political history of England in this period reveals a partial picture of how tolerance came to be during the Enlightenment, Conway's study of the novel shows a more nuanced story about the challenges of peaceful coexistence through its representations of interfaith marriage. By foregrounding women's right to liberty of conscience, interfaith marriage counters the privatization of religious affect and the naturalization of women's subordination in marriage. The interfaith marriage plot invites us to review the terms governing our narratives of marriage and community, and the ethics of sociability that sustain them, both in relation to the history of the novel and to our contemporary moment"--
Sacred Engagements
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Author : Alison Conway
language : en
Publisher: JHU Press
Release Date : 2023-02-14
Sacred Engagements written by Alison Conway and has been published by JHU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-14 with Literary Criticism categories.
A revelatory reading of the British novel that considers interfaith marriage, religious toleration, and the ethics of sociability. Bringing together feminist theory, novel criticism, and religious studies, Alison Conway's Sacred Engagements advances a postsecular reading of the novel that links religious tolerance and the eighteenth-century marriage plot. Conway explores the historical roots of the vexed questions that interfaith marriage continues to raise today. She argues that narrative wields the power to imagine conjugal and religious relations that support the embodied politics crucial to a communal, rather than state-sponsored, ethics of toleration. Conway studies the communal and gendered aspects of religious experience embedded in Samuel Richardson's account of interfaith marriage and liberalism's understandings of toleration in Sir Charles Grandison. In her readings of Frances Brooke, Elizabeth Inchbald, and Maria Edgeworth, Conway considers how women authors reframe the questions posed by Grandison, representing intimacy, authorship, and women's religious subjectivity in ways that challenge the social and political norms of Protestant British culture. She concludes with reflections on Jane Austen's Mansfield Park and the costs of a marriage plot that insists on religious conformity. By examining the complex epistemologies of the interfaith marriage plot, Sacred Engagements counters the secularization thesis that has long dominated eighteenth-century novel studies. In so doing, the book recognizes those subjects otherwise ignored by liberal political theory and extrapolates how a genuinely inclusive tolerance might be imagined in our own deeply divided times.
Guide To The Christian Ministry Or Manual For Candidates For The Sacred Office
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Author : Thomas Wallace (Congregational Minister.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1849
Guide To The Christian Ministry Or Manual For Candidates For The Sacred Office written by Thomas Wallace (Congregational Minister.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1849 with categories.
Sacred Sites Contested Rites Rights
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Author : Jenny Blain
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Sacred Sites Contested Rites Rights written by Jenny Blain and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Social Science categories.
Paganism is held to be the fastest growing 'religion' in Britain today. Pagan identities and constructions of sacredness contest assumptions of a 'closed' past and untouchable heritage, within a socio-politics in which prehistoric archaeology - the stone circles, burial cairns, and rock art of the British Isles - is itself subject to political and economic threats. Pagans see prehistoric monuments in a living, enchanted landscape of deities, ancestors, spirits, 'wights, ' and other non-human agencies to be engaged with for personal and community empowerment. From all areas of Britain and indeed worldwide, people come to sacred sites of prehistory to make pilgrimages, befriend places, give offerings, act as unofficial 'site guardians, ' and campaign for 'site welfare.' Summer solstice access at Stonehenge attracts tens of thousands of celebrants. Threats of quarrying near Derbyshire's Nine Ladies stone circle or Yorkshire's Thornborough Henges lead to protests and campaigns for the preservation of sacred landscapes and conservation of plant and animal species. Pagans can be seen as allies to the interests of heritage management, yet instances of site damage and recent claims for the reburial of non-Christian human remains disrupt the preservation ethos of those who manage and study these sites, and the large-scale celebrations at Stonehenge and Avebury are subject to continual negotiation. In this book, an anthropologist and archaeologist examine interfaces between paganism and archaeology, considering the emergence of 'sacred sites' in pagan and heritage discourse and the implications of pagan involvement for heritage management, archaeology, and anthropology.
Sacred Streams Or
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Author : Philip Henry Gosse
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1852
Sacred Streams Or written by Philip Henry Gosse and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1852 with Bible categories.
Words To Live By
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Author : Rose, Or
language : en
Publisher: Orbis Books
Release Date : 2018-06-26
Words To Live By written by Rose, Or and has been published by Orbis Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-06-26 with Religion categories.
The Fervent Adorer Or Practice Of Perpetual Adoration Of The Sacred Heart Of Jesus This Little Book Also Contains The Prayers In Honour Of The Sacred Heart The B V Mary And Most Popular Saints Revised By A R C Clergyman Etc
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1867
The Fervent Adorer Or Practice Of Perpetual Adoration Of The Sacred Heart Of Jesus This Little Book Also Contains The Prayers In Honour Of The Sacred Heart The B V Mary And Most Popular Saints Revised By A R C Clergyman Etc written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1867 with categories.
Sacred Streams The Ancient And Modern History Of The Rivers Of The Bible
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Author : Philip Henry Gosse
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1877
Sacred Streams The Ancient And Modern History Of The Rivers Of The Bible written by Philip Henry Gosse and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1877 with Bible categories.
Sacred Streams The Ancient And Modern History Of The River Of The Bible New Ed Rev
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Author : Philip Henry Gosse
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1883
Sacred Streams The Ancient And Modern History Of The River Of The Bible New Ed Rev written by Philip Henry Gosse and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1883 with categories.
Praying With Jane Eyre
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Author : Vanessa Zoltan
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2021-07-06
Praying With Jane Eyre written by Vanessa Zoltan and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-07-06 with Literary Criticism categories.
“In these soaring, open-hearted essays, Vanessa Zoltan writes with fierce brilliance about suffering, survival, and the kind of meaning in life that can withstand real scrutiny.”—John Green, bestselling author of The Fault in Our Stars and The Anthropocene Reviewed A deeply felt celebration of a classic novel--and a reflection on the ways our favorite books can shape and heal us. Our favorite books keep us company, give us hope, and help us find meaning in a chaotic world. In this fresh and relatable work, atheist chaplain Vanessa Zoltan blends memoir and personal growth as she grapples with the notions of family legacy and identity through the lens of her favorite novel, Jane Eyre. Informed by the reading practices of medieval monks and rabbinic scholars from her training at the Harvard Divinity School and filtered through the pages of Jane Eyre as well as Little Women, Harry Potter, and The Great Gatsby, Zoltan explores topics ranging from the trauma she has inherited as the granddaughter of four Holocaust survivors to finding hope, meaning, and even magic in our deeply fractured times. Brimming with a lifelong love of classic literature and the tenderness of self-reflection, the book also reveals simple techniques for reading any work as a sacred text--from Virginia Woolf to Anne of Green Gables to baseball scorecards. Whether you're an avowed "Eyrehead" or simply a curious reader looking for a richer connection with the written word, this deeply felt and inspiring book will light the way to a more intimate appreciation for whatever books you love to read.