Through a Glass Darkly : Reflections on the Sacred.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sydney University Press, author, issuing body.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art and literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (357 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sydney : Sydney University Press, 2006.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Through a Glass Darkly: Reflections on the Sacred is a collection of research articles on the influence of religion on music, literature and art. The book was edited by Frances Di Lauro with an introduction by Victoria Barker.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright page

Contents

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Introduction

'…Through a Glass Darkly: Reflections on the Sacred'

Reflections on Literature, Art and Music

Men of faith: Stravinsky, Maritain and the ideal Christian artifex

Moctezuma's Revenge: Iconoclasm, religion and film

Artists do the Big Picture: Arts Practice as Cultural and Religious Renewal

Norse Influences on Tolkien's Elves and Dwarves

Trauma, Testimony, Transcendence: Representing Diaspora in New Canadian Literatures

Reconsidering the Study of the Sacred in Methodology

Geist and Normativity in Hegel's Early Theological Writings

Concerning Voltaire's English Enterprise

Post-secular Thought? God, No! Slavoj Zizek, the Lacanian Real and the Swerve of Symbolic Space

Art and Politics in the Systemprogramme

Symbols and Stories in Review

Crossing the River of Flowing Sands: a comparison of the journeys of Xuan Zang and Sir Aural Stein

It's all very simplistic this Buddhism stuff

The Meditative Experience: Contemporary Expression of Fundamental Principles

Mystical Experience and its Critique of Pure Reason in the Spiritual Epistemology of Shraward and Rumi

Manichaean Studies in the 21st Century

Discourses on New Religious Movements

Modern Germanic Heathenry and the Radical Traditionalists

Alternative Worlds: Metaphysical questing and virtual community amongst the Otherkin

Rockchopping With the Little Pebble: Mainstream, Fringe and Criminal

Thinking about Levinas in Relation to a Spiritual Community

Afterword

The Garden and the Gardener: Towards a Cinematic Twist for America's Prelapsarian Fantasy

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Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Other Format:

Print version: Through a Glass Darkly

ISBN:

9781743329207

1743329202

OCLC:

1493008747