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The Poetics of Religious Experience

Author : Aziz Esmail
Publisher : I.B. Tauris
ISBN 13 : 9781860642401
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (424 download)

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Download or read book The Poetics of Religious Experience written by Aziz Esmail and published by I.B. Tauris. This book was released on 1998-12-31 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The poetics of religious experience investigates creativity of a particular kind, namely explorations in the language of symbols and metaphors, which constitute the core ideas and vision of a religious tradition. In examining the symbolic and imaginative features of the poetics of religious experience, the author of this essay draws attention to a number of critical issues - literary, philosophical, and historical - which lie behind various interpretations of Islam, and their relevance to the intellectual needs of the Muslim world today. Although these themes are addressed in the Islamic context, they are, in fact, of seminal importance to the more general problem of knowledge and interpretation, and in the wider field of comparative religion, human psychology, and culture.

Songs of Experience

Author : Norman Cutler
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253114198
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (141 download)

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Download or read book Songs of Experience written by Norman Cutler and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1987-05-22 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... a significant contribution to the field... great insight, learning, and clarity." -- George Hart III, University of California, Berkeley "A master's hand is behind this volume." -- Religious Studies Review "... eminently readable... artfully explains the initial spirit and modern understanding of Tamil bhakti poetry... " -- Pacific Affairs "Norman Cutler's major achievement in Songs of Experience is the new critical perspective he provides on bhakti poetry." -- The Journal of Religion Cutler reveals the link between Tamil poetry and religion. His fluent translations make the poems -- songs of the experience of God -- live for us as they did for their first audience nearly fifteen centuries ago.

Poetics and Religion in Pindar

Author : Agis Marinis
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351610961
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book Poetics and Religion in Pindar written by Agis Marinis and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-08-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book delves into the intricate and, as argued, essential relationship between poetics and religion in Pindar. It explores how performance, cult, and religious attitudes intersect, offering readers a nuanced approach to Pindaric poetry concerning the relationship between mortals and the divine. Marinis approaches the world of Pindaric poetry within its historical context, enabling readers to explore the cultural and religious foundations of Pindar’s lyric verse. The chapters examine both epinician poetry and cultic songs, the two major genres of the Pindaric corpus. This monograph focuses on the interconnectedness of poetics and religion, a central question that is essential for understanding the distinctive nature of Pindaric poetry. It examines the diverse ways in which Pindaric poetic tropes intersect with religious themes through detailed analysis and scholarly research. Readers gain an understanding of the significance of performance and cult in the public enactment of Pindar’s works, exploring the relations between mortals – the composer of the song, its performer, and the victor in the case of epinician poetry – and the divine, highlighting the complexities of ancient Greek literature regarding religious practices and attitudes. Through its rigorous examination of Pindaric poetics and religious themes, this book offers readers a profound insight into the religious dimensions of ancient Greek poetry and the enduring legacy of Pindar’s oeuvre. Poetics and Religion in Pindar is suitable for scholars and students working on ancient Greek literature, particularly the works of Pindar and lyric poetry, as well as those interested in classical literature and ancient Greek religion and culture more broadly.

Poetics of the Flesh

Author : Mayra Rivera
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822374935
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Poetics of the Flesh written by Mayra Rivera and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2015-09-16 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Poetics of the Flesh Mayra Rivera offers poetic reflections on how we understand our carnal relationship to the world, at once spiritual, organic, and social. She connects conversations about corporeality in theology, political theory, and continental philosophy to show the relationship between the ways ancient Christian thinkers and modern Western philosophers conceive of the "body" and "flesh.” Her readings of the biblical writings of John and Paul as well as the work of Tertullian illustrate how Christian ideas of flesh influenced the works of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Michel Foucault, and inform her readings of Judith Butler, Frantz Fanon, and others. Rivera also furthers developments in new materialism by exploring the intersections among bodies, material elements, social arrangements, and discourses through body and flesh. By painting a complex picture of bodies, and by developing an account of how the social materializes in flesh, Rivera provides a new way to understand gender and race.

A Poetics of Church

Author : Jennifer Reek
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351396382
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (513 download)

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Download or read book A Poetics of Church written by Jennifer Reek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-25 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative book aims to create a ‘poetics of Church’ and a ‘religious imaginary’ as alternatives to more institutional and conventional ways of thinking and of being ‘Church’. Structured as a spiritual and literary journey, the work moves from models of the institutional Catholic Church into more radical and ambiguous textual spaces, which the author creates by bringing together an unorthodox group of thinkers referred to as ‘poet-companions’: the 16th-century founder of the Society of Jesus, Ignatius of Loyola, the French thinkers Gaston Bachelard and Hélène Cixous, the French poet Yves Bonnefoy, and the English playwright Dennis Potter. Inspired especially by the reading and writing practices of Cixous, the author attempts to exemplify Cixous’ notion of écriture féminine—‘feminine writing’—that suggests new ways of seeing and relating. The project’s uniting of Ignatian spirituality with postmodern thinking and its concern with creating new theological, literary and spiritual spaces for women both coincide and contrast with Pope Francis’s pastoral and reformist tendencies, which have neglected to adequately address the marginalisation of women in the Church. As Francis has called for ‘a theology of women’, of which there are, of course, many to draw from, this volume will be a timely contribution with a unique interdisciplinary approach.

Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Poetry of Religious Experience

Author : Martin Dubois
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107180457
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Gerard Manley Hopkins and the Poetry of Religious Experience written by Martin Dubois and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-21 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; Part I. Forms of Devotion: 1. Bibles; 2. Prayer; Part II. Models of Faith: 3. The soldier; 4. The martyr; Part III. Last Things: 5. Death and judgement; 6. Heaven and hell

Poetry and the Religious Imagination

Author : Francesca Bugliani Knox
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317079361
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Poetry and the Religious Imagination written by Francesca Bugliani Knox and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the role of spiritual experience in poetry? What are the marks of a religious imagination? How close can the secular and the religious be brought together? How do poetic imagination and religious beliefs interact? Exploring such questions through the concept of the religious imagination, this book integrates interdisciplinary research in the area of poetry on the one hand, and theology, philosophy and Christian spirituality on the other. Established theologians, philosophers, literary critics and creative writers explain, by way of contemporary and historical examples, the primary role of the religious imagination in the writing as well as in the reading of poetry.

Literature and Religious Experience

Author : Matthew J. Smith
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350193933
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Literature and Religious Experience written by Matthew J. Smith and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges the status quo of studies in literature and religion by returning to “experience” as a bridge between theory and practice. Essays focus on keywords of religious experience and demonstrate their applications in drama, fiction, and poetry. Each chapter explores the broad significance of its keyword as a category of psychological and social behavior and tracks its unique articulation by individual authors, including Conrad, Beecher Stowe and Melville. Together, the chapters construct a critical foundation for studying literature not only from the perspectives of theology and historicism but from the ways that literary experience reflects, reinforces, and sometimes challenges religious experience.

Poetry and the Religious Imagination

Author : Francesca Bugliani Knox
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9781138548800
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (488 download)

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Download or read book Poetry and the Religious Imagination written by Francesca Bugliani Knox and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-12 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the role of spiritual experience in poetry? What are the marks of a religious imagination? How close can the secular and the religious be brought together? How do poetic imagination and religious beliefs interact? Exploring such questions through the concept of the religious imagination, this book integrates interdisciplinary research in the area of poetry on the one hand, and theology, philosophy and Christian spirituality on the other. Established theologians, philosophers, literary critics and creative writers explain, by way of contemporary and historical examples, the primary role of the religious imagination in the writing as well as in the reading of poetry.

Poetic Theology

Author : William A. Dyrness
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 080286578X
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (28 download)

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Download or read book Poetic Theology written by William A. Dyrness and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2011 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are the poetics of everyday life ? What can they teach us about God? Art, music, dance, and writing can certainly be poetic, but so can such diverse pastimes as fishing, skiing, or attending sports events. Any and all activities that satisfy our fundamental need for play, for celebration, and for ritual, says William Dyrness, are inherently poetic and in Poetic Theology he demonstrates that all such activities are places where God is active in the world. All of humanity s creative efforts, Dyrness points out, testify to our intrinsic longing for joy and delight and our deep desire to connect with others, with the created order, and especially with the Creator. This desire is rooted in the presence and calling of God in and through the good creation. With extensive reflection on aesthetics in spirituality, worship, and community development, Dyrness s Poetic Theology will be useful for all who seek fresh and powerful new ways to communicate the gospel in contemporary society. William Dyrness s bold invitation to a poetic theology shaped by Scripture, tradition, and imagination one luring us toward a fuller participation in beauty than argument or concept alone allow reminds us that truth itself is beautiful to behold and poetic to the core. . . . If poetry is in its deepest reflex an intensification of life, then Dyrness s call for a poetic theology is one we ignore at our peril, reminding us that faithful living is not only about proper thinking but also and, perhaps, more properly about the texture of our living and the quality of our loving. Mark S. Burrows Andover Newton Theological School Makes a strong case for aesthetics as one of the avenues used by God to draw human beings near to him and his glory. . . . A wonderful journey through Reformed spirituality and a wake-up call for Reformed theology. Cornelius van der Kooi Free University, Amsterdam

The Metaphysical Poets

Author : Helen Constance White
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book The Metaphysical Poets written by Helen Constance White and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Experience

Author : Norman Fischer
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817358285
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (173 download)

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Download or read book Experience written by Norman Fischer and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Norman Fischer's Experience is the fruit of forty years of thinking on experimental writing and its practice, both as an investigation of reality and as a religious endeavor, by a major figure in contemporary Zen Buddhist practice and theology.

The Poetics of Grammar and the Metaphysics of Sound and Sign

Author : Sergio La Porta
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004158103
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book The Poetics of Grammar and the Metaphysics of Sound and Sign written by Sergio La Porta and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2007 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognizing the seemingly universal notion of a grammatical cosmos, this volume addresses the question of how grammar and culturally encoded sounds and signs provide cognitive maps of reality in a variety of great civilizations.

Women's Poetry and Religion in Victorian England

Author : Cynthia Scheinberg
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139434225
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Women's Poetry and Religion in Victorian England written by Cynthia Scheinberg and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2002-05-30 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Victorian women poets lived in a time when religion was a vital aspect of their identities. Cynthia Scheinberg examines Anglo-Jewish (Grace Aguilar and Amy Levy) and Christian (Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti) women poets, and argues that there are important connections between the discourses of nineteenth-century poetry, gender and religious identity. Further, Scheinberg argues that Jewish and Christian women poets had a special interest in Jewish discourse; calling on images from Judaism and the Hebrew Scriptures, their poetry created complex arguments about the relationships between Jewish and female artistic identity. She suggests that Jewish and Christian women used poetry as a site for creative and original theological interpretation, and that they entered into dialogue through their poetry about their own and each other's religious and artistic identities. This book's interdisciplinary methodology calls on poetics, religious studies, feminist literary criticism, and little read Anglo-Jewish primary sources.

Piers Plowman and the Poetics of Enigma

Author : Curtis A. Gruenler
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 0268101655
Total Pages : 636 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (681 download)

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Download or read book Piers Plowman and the Poetics of Enigma written by Curtis A. Gruenler and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2017-04-30 with total page 636 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Curtis Gruenler proposes that the concept of the enigmatic, latent in a wide range of medieval thinking about literature, can help us better understand in medieval terms much of the era’s most enduring literature, from the riddles of the Anglo-Saxon bishop Aldhelm to the great vernacular works of Dante, Chaucer, Julian of Norwich, and, above all, Langland’s Piers Plowman. Riddles, rhetoric, and theology—the three fields of meaning of aenigma in medieval Latin—map a way of thinking about reading and writing obscure literature that was widely shared across the Middle Ages. The poetics of enigma links inquiry about language by theologians with theologically ambitious literature. Each sense of enigma brings out an aspect of this poetics. The playfulness of riddling, both oral and literate, was joined to a Christian vision of literature by Aldhelm and the Old English riddles of the Exeter Book. Defined in rhetoric as an obscure allegory, enigma was condemned by classical authorities but resurrected under the influence of Augustine as an aid to contemplation. Its theological significance follows from a favorite biblical verse among medieval theologians, “We see now through a mirror in an enigma, then face to face” (1 Cor. 13:12). Along with other examples of the poetics of enigma, Piers Plowman can be seen as a culmination of centuries of reflection on the importance of obscure language for knowing and participating in endless mysteries of divinity and humanity and a bridge to the importance of the enigmatic in modern literature. This book will be especially useful for scholars and undergraduate students interested in medieval European literature, literary theory, and contemplative theology.

Toward a Sacramental Poetics

Author : Regina M. Schwartz
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 026820151X
Total Pages : 373 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (682 download)

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Download or read book Toward a Sacramental Poetics written by Regina M. Schwartz and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distinguished theologians and literary scholars explore the workings of the sacred and the sacramental in language and literature. What does a sacramental poetics offer that secular cultural theory, for all of its advances, may have missed? How does a sacred understanding of the world differ from a strictly secular one? This volume develops the theory of “sacramental poetics” advanced by Regina Schwartz in her 2008 book on English Reformation writers, taking the theory in new directions while demonstrating how enduring and widespread this poetics is. Toward a Sacramental Poetics addresses two urgent questions we have inherited from a half century of secular critical thought. First, how do we understand the relationship between word and thing, sign and signified, other than as some naive direct representation or as a completely arbitrary language game? And, second, how can the subject experience the world beyond instrumentalizing it? The contributors conclude that a sacramental poetics responds to both questions, offering an understanding of the sign that, by pointing beyond itself, suggests wonder. The contributors explore a variety of topics in relation to sacramental poetics, including political theology, miracles, modernity, translation and transformation, and the metaphysics of love. They draw from diverse resources, from Dante to Hopkins, from Richard Hooker to Stoker's Dracula, from the King James Bible to Wallace Stevens. Toward a Sacramental Poetics is an important contribution to studies of religion and literature, the sacred and the secular, literary theory, and theologies of aesthetics. Contributors: Regina M. Schwartz, Patrick J. McGrath, Rowan Williams, Subha Mukherji, Stephen Little, Kevin Hart, John Milbank, Hent de Vries, Jean-Luc Marion, Ingolf U. Dalferth, Lori Branch, and Paul Mariani.

Death Be Not Proud

Author : David Marno
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022641597X
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Download or read book Death Be Not Proud written by David Marno and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-12-21 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What might contemporary thinkers learn from prayer? The seventeenth-century French philosopher Nicolas Malebranche suggested a possibility: that prayer teaches us how to attend. This book explores the precedents of Malebranche s advice by reading John Donne s poetic prayers in the context of what David Marno calls the art of holy attention. This requires an understanding of attention s role in Christian devotion, which he provides by uncovering a tradition of holy attention that spans from ascetic thinkers and Church Fathers to Catholic spiritual exercises and Protestant prayer manuals. Donne s devotional poems occupy a unique position in this tradition. Marno identifies in them a devotional model of thinking whose aim is to experience an affect of attention. Marno s argument is framed by compelling close readings of Death, be not proud, Donne s most triumphant poem about the resurrection. Elsewhere, Marno takes up Claudius s prayer in "Hamlet" and Saint Augustine s account of attention in the "Soliloquies" and the "Confessions." The book ends with a Coda on the aftermath of holy attention in the philosophies of Descartes and Malebranche."