Dear All,
'Reading Spiritualities: Constructing and Representing the Sacred' (eds) Dawn Llewellyn and Deborah F. Sawyer is now available from Ashgate:
http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754663294
Please find attached a flyer, for your interest, and further information:
The phenomenon of 'sacred text' has undergone radical deconstruction in recent times, reflecting how religion has broken out of its traditional definitions and practices, and how current literary theories have influenced texts inside the religious domain and beyond. Reading Spiritualities presents both commentary and vivid examples of this evolution, engaging with a variety of reading practices that work with traditional texts and those that extend the notion of 'text' itself. The contributors draw on a range of textual sites such as an interview, Caribbean literature, drama and jazz, women's writings, emerging church blogs, Neopagan websites, the reading practices of Buddhist nuns, empirical studies on the reading experiences of Gujarati, Christian and post-Christian women, Chicana short stories, the mosque, cinema, modern art and literature. These examples open up understandings of where and how 'sacred texts' are emerging and being reassessed within contemporary religious and spiritual contexts; and make room for readings where the spiritual resides not only in the textual, but in other unexpected places.
Contents: Introduction, Deborah F. Sawyer and Dawn Llewellyn
Part I Spiritual Journeys:
'Getting a/cross God':An Interview, Michèle Roberts, Dawn Llewellyn and Deborah F. Sawyer
The sacred in Caribbean literature: a theological conversation, Michael N. Jagessar
Dramatic improvisation: a jazz inspired approach to undertaking theology with the marginalized, Anthony G. Reddie.
Part II Authority:
'Gendering the spirit': reading women's spiritualities with a comparative mirror, Ursula King
Our sacred texts: literature, theology and feminism, Heather Walton
The desire for interactivity and the emerging texts of the blogosphere, Katharine Sarah Moody. Part III Readers and Texts:
Spiritual themes and identities in chicana texts: the Virgin of Guadeloupe as a role model for womanhood, María Antonia Álvarez
Bihishti Zewar: a text for respectable women?, Raana Bokhari
Forming community in the 3rd wave: literary texts and women's spiritualities, Dawn Llewellyn. Part IV Accessing the Spiritual
Solomon's narrative: architecture, text and the sacred, Ozayr Saloojee
Reading texts, watching texts: mythopoesis on neopagan websites, Maria Beatrice Bittarello Word and image: Burgess, Zeferelli and Jesus the Man of Nazareth, Graham Holderness
Do not hide your face from me: the sacred and profane body in art and modern literature, David Jasper
Many thanks!
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