Earthquakes and gardens : Saint Hilarion's Cyprus / Virginia Burrus.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Burrus, Virginia, author.

Series:

Class 200: New Studies in Religion

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jerome, Saint, -419 or 420. Vita S. Hilarionis Eremitae.

Jerome.

Hilarion, Saint, approximately 291-approximately 371--Homes and haunts--Cyprus.

Hilarion.

Earthquakes--Religious aspects.

Earthquakes.

Paphos (Cyprus)--In literature.

Paphos (Cyprus).

Paphos (Cyprus)--History--To 1500.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (208 p.) : 35 halftones

Place of Publication:

Chicago, Illinois ; London, England : University of Chicago Press, [2023]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Essays about ruination, resilience, reading, and religion generated by a reflection on a fourth-century hagiography. In Jerome's Life of Saint Hilarion, a fourth-century saint briefly encounters the ruins of an earthquake-toppled city and a haunted garden in Cyprus. From these two fragmentary passages, Virginia Burrus delivers a series of sweeping meditations on our experience of place and the more-than-human worlds-the earth and its gods-that surround us. Moving between the personal and geological, Earthquakes and Gardens ruminates on destruction and resilience, ruination and resurgence, grief and consolation in times of disaster and loss. Ultimately, Burrus's close readings reimagine religion as a practice that unsettles certainty and develops mutual flourishing.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

FIGURES

I POINTS OF DEPARTURE

MEMORIES

THREE NOTES ON METHOD

SETTING OUT, WITH JEROME

II PAPHOS

POETRY AND PLACE

CURATING EARTHQUAKES

LIFE IN RUINS

III THE MOUNTAIN

GEOGRAPHIES OF THE REMOTE

ENTROPIC GARDENS

LITERARY CARTOGRAPHIES

IV CODA

AN OCEAN OF POSSIBILITY

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-226-82455-1

OCLC:

1354208760