In Search of the Sacred Book
Title | In Search of the Sacred Book PDF eBook |
Author | Aníbal González |
Publisher | University of Pittsburgh Press |
Total Pages | 324 |
Release | 2018-05-03 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 0822983028 |
In Search of the Sacred Book studies the artistic incorporation of religious concepts such as prophecy, eternity, and the afterlife in the contemporary Latin American novel. It departs from sociopolitical readings by noting the continued relevance of religion in Latin American life and culture, despite modernity's powerful secularizing influence. Analyzing Jorge Luis Borges's secularized "narrative theology" in his essays and short stories, the book follows the development of the Latin American novel from the early twentieth century until today by examining the attempts of major novelists, from María Luisa Bombal, Alejo Carpentier, and Juan Rulfo, to Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, and José Lezama Lima, to "sacralize" the novel by incorporating traits present in the sacred texts of many religions. It concludes with a view of the "desacralization" of the novel by more recent authors, from Elena Poniatowska and Fernando Vallejo to Roberto Bolaño.
Reinventing the Sacred
Title | Reinventing the Sacred PDF eBook |
Author | Stuart A. Kauffman |
Publisher | ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | 534 |
Release | 2010-11-29 |
Genre | Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | 1458722066 |
Consider the complexity of a living cell after 3.8 billion years of evolution. Is it more awesome to suppose that a transcendent God fashioned the cell at a stroke, or to realize that it evolved with no Almighty Hand, but arose on its own in the c...
The Mark of the Sacred
Title | The Mark of the Sacred PDF eBook |
Author | Jean-Pierre Dupuy |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | 239 |
Release | 2013-10-30 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0804788456 |
This study of religion and violence “forces us to reexamine some of our most cherished self-images of modern liberal democratic societies” (Charles Taylor). Jean-Pierre Dupuy, prophet of what he calls “enlightened doomsaying,” has long warned that modern society is on a path to self-destruction. In this book, he pleads for a subversion of this crisis from within, arguing that it is our lopsided view of religion and reason that has set us on this course. In denial of our sacred origins and hubristically convinced of the powers of human reason, we cease to know our own limits: our disenchanted world leaves us defenseless against a headlong rush into the abyss of global warming, nuclear holocaust, and the other catastrophes that loom on our horizon. Reviving the religious anthropology of Max Weber, Emile Durkheim, and Marcel Mauss and in dialogue with the work of René Girard, Dupuy shows that we must remember the world’s sacredness in order to keep human violence in check. A metaphysical and theological detective, he tracks the sacred in the very fields where human reason considers itself most free from everything it judges irrational: science, technology, economics, political and strategic thought. In making such claims, The Mark of the Sacred takes on religion bashers, secularists, and fundamentalists at once. Written by one of the deepest and most versatile thinkers of our time, it militates for a world where reason is no longer an enemy of faith. “The Mark of the Sacred is one of those rare books . . . which, in an enlightened well-organized state, should be printed and freely distributed in all schools!” —Slavoj Žižek
Violence and the Sacred
Title | Violence and the Sacred PDF eBook |
Author | René Girard |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Total Pages | 361 |
Release | 2005-04-13 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0826477186 |
René Girard (1923-) was Professor of French Language, Literature and Civilization at Stanford Unviersity from 1981 until his retirement in 1995. Violence and the Sacred is Girard's brilliant study of human evil. Girard explores violence as it is represented and occurs throughout history, literature and myth. Girard's forceful and thought-provoking analyses of Biblical narrative, Greek tragedy and the lynchings and pogroms propagated by contemporary states illustrate his central argument that violence belongs to everyone and is at the heart of the sacred. Translated by Patrick Gregory>
The Sacred Book
Title | The Sacred Book PDF eBook |
Author | Bilal Ahmed |
Publisher | Lulu.com |
Total Pages | 281 |
Release | 2013-07-09 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1304213463 |
On a journey through spiritual awakening, living in the moment, no memory of the past, no plans for the future, the only reality being the sound of silence, or OM, a gateway in the cosmic, receiving divine guidance. A journey through various ashrams in San Francisco, learning from the most enlightenment gurus and masters who ever walked on mother earth, themselves travelling towards the West, to help create the new dawn of spirituality, from the East. As predicted in the past, helping build a Golden era, with Divine Love, Knowledge and Existence, together in Oneness of male and female aspects of divinity, respecting and loving the divine mother or nature.
Conversations with the Sacred
Title | Conversations with the Sacred PDF eBook |
Author | Manish Mishra-Marzetti |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Meditations |
ISBN | 9781558968516 |
"A testimony to the power of prayer as a form of sacred conversation"--
The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East
Title | The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East PDF eBook |
Author | Charles Francis Horne |
Publisher | |
Total Pages | 432 |
Release | 1917 |
Genre | English literature |
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