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1 online resource (241 pages) |
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| Summary |
The result of a dialogue between poets and scholars on the meaning and making of the sacred, this book endeavours to determine how the sacred emerges in sacred script as well as in poetic discourse. It ranges through scholarship in areas as apparently disparate as postmodernism and Buddhism. The perspectives developed are various and without closure, locating the sacred in modes as diverse as patristic traditions, feminist retranslations of biblical texts, and oral and written versions of documents from the world's religions. The essays cohere in their preoccupation with the crucial role lang. |
| Contents |
Table of Contents; Foreword; About the Authors; Introduction; Notes; I: Experience of the Sacred by Poets and Writers; II: The Sacred Word in Specific Settings; III: Conclusion; Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Holy, The, in literature -- Congresses.
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Holy, The, in literature. |
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Language and languages -- Religious aspects -- Congresses.
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Language and languages -- Religious aspects. |
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Silence -- Religious aspects -- Congresses.
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Silence -- Religious aspects. |
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Poetry -- History and criticism -- Congresses.
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Poetry. |
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Coward, Harold G.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Blodgett, E.D. Silence, the Word and the Sacred. Waterloo : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, ©2006 9780889209817 |
| ISBN |
9780889205246 (electronic book) |
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0889205248 (electronic book) |
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9780889208797 |
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0889208794 |
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