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Author |
: Manav Ratti |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2013-01-04 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781135096892 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1135096899 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Postsecular Imagination by : Manav Ratti
The Postsecular Imagination presents a rich, interdisciplinary study of postsecularism as an affirmational political possibility emerging through the potentials and limits of both secular and religious thought. While secularism and religion can foster inspiration and creativity, they also can be linked with violence, civil war, partition, majoritarianism, and communalism, especially within the framework of the nation-state. Through close readings of novels that engage with animism, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Sikhism, Manav Ratti examines how questions of ethics and the need for faith, awe, wonder, and enchantment can find expression and significance in the wake of such crises. While focusing on Michael Ondaatje and Salman Rushdie, Ratti addresses the work of several other writers as well, including Shauna Singh Baldwin, Mahasweta Devi, Amitav Ghosh, and Allan Sealy. Ratti shows the extent of courage and risk involved in the radical imagination of these postsecular works, examining how writers experiment with and gesture toward the compelling paradoxes of a non-secular secularism and a non-religious religion. Drawing on South Asian Anglophone literatures and postcolonial theory, and situating itself within the most provocative contemporary debates in secularism and religion, The Postsecular Imagination will be important for readers interested in the relations among culture, literature, theory, and politics.
Author |
: Taylor & Francis Group |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: |
Release |
: 2017-11-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0815363044 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780815363040 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Postsecular Imagination by : Taylor & Francis Group
The Postsecular Imagination presents a rich, interdisciplinary study of postsecularism as an affirmational political possibility emerging through the potentials and limits of both secular and religious thought. While secularism and religion can foster inspiration and creativity, they also can be linked with violence, civil war, partition, majoritarianism, and communalism, especially within the framework of the nation-state. Through close readings of novels that engage with animism, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Sikhism, Manav Ratti examines how questions of ethics and the need for faith, awe, wonder, and enchantment can find expression and significance in the wake of such crises. While focusing on Michael Ondaatje and Salman Rushdie, Ratti addresses the work of several other writers as well, including Shauna Singh Baldwin, Mahasweta Devi, Amitav Ghosh, and Allan Sealy. Ratti shows the extent of courage and risk involved in the radical imagination of these postsecular works, examining how writers experiment with and gesture toward the compelling paradoxes of a non-secular secularism and a non-religious religion. Drawing on South Asian Anglophone literatures and postcolonial theory, and situating itself within the most provocative contemporary debates in secularism and religion, The Postsecular Imagination will be important for readers interested in the relations among culture, literature, theory, and politics.
Author |
: Manav Ratti |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780415480970 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0415480973 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (70 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Postsecular Imagination by : Manav Ratti
The Postsecular Imagination presents a rich, interdisciplinary study of postsecularism as an affirmational political possibility emerging through the potentials and limits of both secular and religious thought. While secularism and religion can foster inspiration and creativity, they also can be linked with violence, civil war, partition, majoritarianism, and communalism, especially within the framework of the nation-state. Through close readings of novels that engage with animism, Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism, Islam, and Sikhism, Manav Ratti examines how questions of ethics and the need for faith, awe, wonder, and enchantment can find expression and significance in the wake of such crises. While focusing on Michael Ondaatje and Salman Rushdie, Ratti addresses the work of several other writers as well, including Shauna Singh Baldwin, Mahasweta Devi, Amitav Ghosh, and Allan Sealy. Ratti shows the extent of courage and risk involved in the radical imagination of these postsecular works, examining how writers experiment with and gesture toward the compelling paradoxes of a non-secular secularism and a non-religious religion. Drawing on South Asian Anglophone literatures and postcolonial theory, and situating itself within the most provocative contemporary debates in secularism and religion, The Postsecular Imagination will be important for readers interested in the relations among culture, literature, theory, and politics.
Author |
: Jo Carruthers |
Publisher |
: Peter Lang |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 2010 |
ISBN-10 |
: 3039119257 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9783039119257 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis Spiritual Identities by : Jo Carruthers
This collection of essays considers the return of the religious in contemporary literary studies. In the twenty-first century it is now possible to detect a new sacred 'turn' in thought and writing. For some writers, this post-secular identity plays itself out in both a recuperation of religious traditions (Catholicism, Puritanism, Judaism) and a re-invention of the religious imaginary (apophaticism, messianism, apocalypticism, fundamentalism). In literary studies, the implications of the post-secular are revitalizing critical engagement with canonical works and fuelling the reclaiming of neglected writings as questions of the construction of spiritual identities come once again to the fore.
Author |
: Anthony Paul Smith |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 0 |
Release |
: 2011 |
ISBN-10 |
: 1443827045 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9781443827041 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (45 Downloads) |
Synopsis After the Postsecular and the Postmodern by : Anthony Paul Smith
Continental philosophy of religion has been dominated for two decades by 'postsecular' and 'postmodern' thought. This title questions what comes after the postsecular and the postmodern. It argues that philosophy of religion must either liberate itself from theological norms or mutate into a different practice of thinking.
Author |
: Zuzanna Bogumił |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 418 |
Release |
: 2022-02-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000543308 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000543307 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (08 Downloads) |
Synopsis Memory and Religion from a Postsecular Perspective by : Zuzanna Bogumił
The book argues that religion is a system of significant meanings that have an impact on other systems and spheres of social life, including cultural memory. The editors call for a postsecular turn in memory studies which would provide a more reflective and meaningful approach to the constant interplay between the religious and the secular. This opens up new perspectives on the intersection of memory and religion and helps memory scholars become more aware of the religious roots of the language they are using in their studies of memory. By drawing on examples from different parts of the world, the contributors to this volume explain how the interactions between the religious and the secular produce new memory forms and content in the heterogenous societies of the present-day world. These analyzed cases demonstrate that religion has a significant impact on cultural memory, family memory and the contemporary politics of history in secularized societies. At the same time, politics, grassroots movements and different secular agents and processes have so much influence on the formation of memory by religious actors that even religious, ecclesiastic and confessional memories are affected by the secular. This volume is ideal for students and scholars of memory studies, religious studies and history.
Author |
: J. Benjamin Hurlbut |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 379 |
Release |
: 2016-02-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783658110444 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3658110449 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Perfecting Human Futures by : J. Benjamin Hurlbut
Humans have always imagined better futures. From the desire to overcome death to the aspiration to dominion over the world, imaginations of the technological future reveal the commitments, values, and norms of those who construct them. Today, the human future is thrown into question by emerging technologies that promise radical control over human life and elicit corollary imaginations of human perfectibility. This interdisciplinary volume assembles scholars of science and technology studies, sociology, philosophy, theology, ethics, and history to examine imaginations of technological progress that promises to transcend the constraints of human body and being. Attending in particular to transhumanist and posthumanist visions, the volume breaks new ground by exploring their utopian and eschatological dimensions and situating them within a broader context of ideas, institutions, and practices of innovation. The volume invites specialists and general readers to explore the stakes of contemporary imaginations of technological innovation as a source of progress, a force of social and historical transformation, and as the defining essence of human life.
Author |
: Jasbeer Musthafa Mamalipurath |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 182 |
Release |
: |
ISBN-10 |
: 9789819737482 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9819737486 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (82 Downloads) |
Synopsis TEDified Islam by : Jasbeer Musthafa Mamalipurath
Author |
: David S. Hogsette |
Publisher |
: McFarland |
Total Pages |
: 233 |
Release |
: 2022-07-22 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781476647357 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1476647356 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (57 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Transcendent Vision of Mythopoeic Fantasy by : David S. Hogsette
An ever-expanding critical library on fantasy fiction requires an analysis of why the genre is so ubiquitous, enduring and beloved. This work analyzes the mythic elements in foundational fantasy texts, arguing that mythopoeic fantasy reveals timeless truths that link human cultures past and present. Through close readings of works like Phantastes, The King of Elfland's Daughter, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe, A Wizard of Earthsea, The Neverending Story, A Wrinkle in Time and Out of the Silent Planet, this book explores how mythopoeic fantasy speaks to the deepest concerns of the human heart. It investigates the genre's use of an imagination that is sometimes atrophied by the demands of contemporary life, and explores how fantasy provides restoration, consolation and hope within a cultural context that too often decries such ideas. Each chapter focuses on a representative text, providing author background and engaging relevant scholarship on a variety of relevant thematic issues. Offering new insights on these classic texts by drawing upon post-secular critical approaches, this work is suitable for both new and seasoned students of fantasy.
Author |
: Nasima Selim |
Publisher |
: Berghahn Books |
Total Pages |
: 280 |
Release |
: 2024-01-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781805392361 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1805392360 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (61 Downloads) |
Synopsis Breathing Hearts by : Nasima Selim
Sufism is known as the mystical dimension of Islam. Breathing Hearts explores this definition to find out what it means to ‘breathe well’ along the Sufi path in the context of anti-Muslim racism. It is the first book-length ethnographic account of Sufi practices and politics in Berlin and describes how Sufi practices are mobilized in healing secular and religious suffering. It tracks the Desire Lines of multi-ethnic immigrants of color, and white German interlocutors to show how Sufi practices complicate the post secular imagination of healing in Germany.