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Partial Faiths
Author | : John A. McClure |
Publsiher | : University of Georgia Press |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2010-01-25 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780820336602 |
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Spiritual conversions figure heavily in such novels as Thomas Pynchon's Vineland, Toni Morrison's Paradise, and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine. What connects such varied works is that their convert-characters are disenchanted with secularism yet apprehensive of dogmatic religiosity. Partial Faiths is the first study to identify a body of contemporary fiction in such terms, take the measure of its structures and strategies, and evaluate its contribution to public discourse on religion's place in postmodern life. Postsecularism is most often associated with philosophers and theorists such as Jacques Derrida, Richard Rorty, Charles Taylor, William Connolly, Jürgen Habermas, and Gianni Vattimo. But it is also being explored and invented, says John A. McClure, by many novelists: Leslie Marmon Silko, Don DeLillo, Michael Ondaatje, and N. Scott Momaday among others. These novelists, who are often regarded as belonging to different domains of contemporary fiction, are fleshing out the postsecular issues that scholars treat more abstractly. But the modes of belief elaborated in these novels and the new narrative forms synchronized with these modes are dramatically partial and open-ended. Postsecular fiction does not aspire to any full "mapping" of the reenchanted cosmos or any formal moral code, nor does it promise anything like full redemption. It is partial in another sense as well: it is emphatically dedicated to progressive ideals of social transformation and well-being, in repudiation of resurgent fundamentalist prescriptions for the same.
A Partial Enlightenment
Author | : Avram Alpert |
Publsiher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 119 |
Release | : 2021-04-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9780231553391 |
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In many ways, Buddhism has become the global religion of the modern world. For its contemporary followers, the ideal of enlightenment promises inner peace and worldly harmony. And whereas other philosophies feel abstract and disembodied, Buddhism offers meditation as a means to realize this ideal. If we could all be as enlightened as Buddhists, some imagine, we could live in a much better world. For some time now, however, this beatific image of Buddhism has been under attack. Scholars and practitioners have criticized it as a Western fantasy that has nothing to do with the actual experiences of Buddhists. Avram Alpert combines personal experience and readings of modern novels to offer another way to understand modern Buddhism. He argues that it represents a rich resource not for attaining perfection but rather for finding meaning and purpose in a chaotic world. Finding unexpected affinities across world literature—Rudyard Kipling in colonial India, Yukio Mishima in postwar Japan, Bessie Head escaping apartheid South Africa—as well as in his own experiences living with Tibetan exiles, Alpert shows how these stories illuminate a world in which suffering is inevitable and total enlightenment is impossible. Yet they also give us access to partial enlightenments: powerful insights that become available when we come to terms with imperfection and stop looking for wholeness. A Partial Enlightenment reveals the moments of personal and social transformation that the inventions of modern Buddhism help make possible.
Christian Faith Comprehensive Not Partial Definite Not Uncertain
Author | : William Edward Jelf |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1857 |
Genre | : Christianity |
ISBN | : NLS:V000601623 |
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Christian faith comprehensive not partial definite not uncertain sermons at the lecture founded by John Bampton
Author | : William Edward Jelf |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1857 |
Genre | : Theology, Doctrinal |
ISBN | : OXFORD:590537066 |
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Imagining Judeo Christian America
Author | : K. Healan Gaston |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2019-11-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226663852 |
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“Judeo-Christian” is a remarkably easy term to look right through. Judaism and Christianity obviously share tenets, texts, and beliefs that have strongly influenced American democracy. In this ambitious book, however, K. Healan Gaston challenges the myth of a monolithic Judeo-Christian America. She demonstrates that the idea is not only a recent and deliberate construct, but also a potentially dangerous one. From the time of its widespread adoption in the 1930s, the ostensible inclusiveness of Judeo-Christian terminology concealed efforts to promote particular conceptions of religion, secularism, and politics. Gaston also shows that this new language, originally rooted in arguments over the nature of democracy that intensified in the early Cold War years, later became a marker in the culture wars that continue today. She argues that the debate on what constituted Judeo-Christian—and American—identity has shaped the country’s religious and political culture much more extensively than previously recognized.
Holiness Through Faith
Author | : Robert Pearsall Smith |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 158 |
Release | : 1870 |
Genre | : Christian life |
ISBN | : UOMDLP:ajh1676:0001.001 |
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The Outlook
Author | : Lyman Abbott,Hamilton Wright Mabie,Ernest Hamlin Abbott,Francis Rufus Bellamy |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 516 |
Release | : 1897 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : UCD:31175024114228 |
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