The sacred desert: religion, literature, art, and culture
David Jasper
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Title and Author
The sacred desert: religion, literature, art, and culture / David JasperPublication Details
مالدن : Blackwell Pub، 2004مPhysical Description
xix, 208 p.: ill.; 24 cm.Subject
Spiritual life ChristianityDeserts Religious aspects Christianity
Language
انگلیسیIncludes bibliographical references )p. 981-991( and index.
Contents
Introduction: meeting points -- The Bible, Schoenberg, and Heidegger -- The desert fathers : wanderings and miracles -- Time and memory, wind and space : the desert and mysticism -- Mysticism and modernity : Thomas Merton meets Don Cupitt -- The literature of the desert, I : travellers and poets -- The literature of the desert, II : novelists -- Artists : Georgia O'Keeffe, Bill Viola, and American abstract expressionism -- Films of the desert : Pier Paolo Pasolini, Wim Wenders, and Claire Denis -- Desert theology and total presence : the poets William Blake and Yves Bonnefoy meet Hegel and Tom Altizer -- Conclusion: meeting point