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Reading Spiritualities - Constructing and Representing the Sacred (Paperback)
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Reading Spiritualities - Constructing and Representing the Sacred (Paperback)
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The phenomenon of 'sacred text' has undergone radical
deconstruction in recent times, reflecting how religion has broken
out of its traditional definitions and practices, and how current
literary theories have influenced texts inside the religious domain
and beyond. Reading Spiritualities presents both commentary and
vivid examples of this evolution, engaging with a variety of
reading practices that work with traditional texts and those that
extend the notion of 'text' itself. The contributors draw on a
range of textual sites such as an interview, Caribbean literature,
drama and jazz, women's writings, emerging church blogs, Neopagan
websites, the reading practices of Buddhist nuns, empirical studies
on the reading experiences of Gujarati, Christian and
post-Christian women, Chicana short stories, the mosque, cinema,
modern art and literature. These examples open up understandings of
where and how 'sacred texts' are emerging and being reassessed
within contemporary religious and spiritual contexts; and make room
for readings where the spiritual resides not only in the textual,
but in other unexpected places. Reading Spiritualities includes
contributions from Graham Holderness, Ursula King, Michael N.
Jagessar, David Jasper, Anthony G. Reddie, Michele Roberts, and
Heather Walton to reflect and encourage the interdisciplinary study
of sacred text in the broad arena of the arts and social sciences.
It offers a unique and well-focused 'snapshot' of the textual
constructions and representations of the sacred within the
contemporary religious climate - accessible to the general reader,
as well as more specialist interests of students and researchers
working in the crossover fields of religious, theological, cultural
and literary studies.
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