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Devotion - Three Inquiries in Religion, Literature, and Political Imagination (Hardcover)
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Devotion - Three Inquiries in Religion, Literature, and Political Imagination (Hardcover)
Series: TRIOS
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Three scholars of religion explore literature and the literary as
sites of critical transformation. We are living in a time of
radical uncertainty, faced with serious political, ecological,
economic, epidemiological, and social problems. Scholars of
religion Constance M. Furey, Sarah Hammerschlag, and Amy Hollywood
come together in this volume with a shared conviction that what and
how we read opens new ways of imagining our political futures and
our lives. Each essay in this book suggests different ways to
characterize the object of devotion and the stance of the devout
subject before it. Furey writes about devotion in terms of
vivification, energy, and artifice; Hammerschlag in terms of
commentary, mimicry, and fetishism; and Hollywood in terms of
anarchy, antinomianism, and atopia. They are interested in
literature not as providing models for ethical, political, or
religious life, but as creating the site in which the possible-and
the impossible-transport the reader, enabling new forms of thought,
habits of mind, and ways of life. Ranging from German theologian
Martin Luther to French-Jewish philosopher Sarah Kofman to American
poet Susan Howe, this volume is not just a reflection on forms of
devotion and their critical and creative import but also a powerful
enactment of devotion itself.
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