Hope and the Longing for Utopia: Futures and Illusions in Theology and Narrative - Couverture souple

Boscaljon, Daniel

 
9781620329337: Hope and the Longing for Utopia: Futures and Illusions in Theology and Narrative
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ISBN 10 : 1620329336 ISBN 13 : 9781620329337
Editeur : Pickwick Publications, 2014

Synopsis

At present the battle over who defines our future is being waged most publicly by secular and religious fundamentalists. Hope and the Longing for Utopia offers an alternative position, disclosing a conceptual path toward potential worlds that resist a limited view of human potential and the gift of religion. In addition to outlining the value of embracing unknown potentialities, these twelve interdisciplinary essays explore why it has become crucial that we commit to hoping for values that resist traditional ideological commitments. Contextualized by contemporary writing on utopia, and drawing from a wealth of times and cultures ranging from Calvin's Geneva to early twentieth-century Japanese children's stories to Hollywood cinema, these essays cumulatively disclose the fundamental importance of resisting tantalizing certainties while considering the importance of the unknown and unknowable. Beginning with a set of four essays outlining the importance of hope and utopia as diagnostic concepts, and following with four concrete examples, the collection ends with a set of essays that provide theological speculations on the need to embrace finitude and limitations in a world increasingly enframed by secularizing impulses. Overall, this book discloses how hope and utopia illuminate ways to think past simplified wishes for the future.

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À propos de l'auteur

Daniel Boscaljon is Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Iowa. He has doctorates in Religious Studies, focusing on secularism and modern religious thought, and in English, focusing on nineteenth-century American literature. He is the author of Vigilant Faith: Passionate Agnosticism in a Secular World (2013) and editor of Resisting the Place of Belonging (2013).

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Éditeur
Pickwick Publications
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1620329336
ISBN 13 
9781620329337
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
260
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  1498234798 ISBN 13 :  9781498234795
Editeur : Wipf & Stock Publishers, 2014
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