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Author | : Andrew M. Greeley |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2017-07-05 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1351493787 |
Religion as Poetry continues in the grand tradition of the sociology of religion pioneered by Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and Talcott Parsons, among other giants in intellectual history. Too many present-day sociologists either ignore or disparage religious currents. In this provocative book, Andrew M. Greeley argues that various religions have endured for thousands of years as poetic rituals and stories. Religion as Poetry proposes a theoretical framework for understanding religion that emphasizes insights derived from religious stories. By virtue of his own rare abilities as a novelist as well as sociologist, Greeley is uniquely qualified for this task.Greeley first considers classical theories of the sociology of religion, and then, drawing upon them, he explicates his own interpretation. He critically examines the viewpoint that society is becoming more secular, and that religion is declining. He observes that this theory stands in the way of persuading sociologists that religion is still worth studying. In contrast, Greeley is interested in why religions persist despite secular trends and alongside them. He argues that it is poetic elements that touch the human soul. Greeley then sets out to test this viewpoint.Greeley maintains that his theory is not the only, or necessarily even the best approach to study religion. Rather, it is his contention that it uniquely provides sociologists with perspectives on religion that other theories too often overlook or disregard. Religion as Poetry, an original and intriguing study by a distinguished social scientist and major novelist, will be enjoyed and evaluated by sociologists, ' theologians, and philosophers alike.
Author | : Andrew M. Greeley |
Publisher | : Transaction Publishers |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2011-12-31 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1412832950 |
Religion as Poetry continues in the grand tradition of the sociology of religion pioneered by Emile Durkheim, Max Weber, and Talcott Parsons, among other giants in intellectual history. Too many present-day sociologists either ignore or disparage religious currents. In this provocative book, Andrew M. Greeley argues that various religions have endured for thousands of years as poetic rituals and stories. Religion as Poetry proposes a theoretical framework for understanding religion that emphasizes insights derived from religious stories. By virtue of his own rare abilities as a novelist as well as sociologist, Greeley is uniquely qualified for this task. Greeley first considers classical theories of the sociology of religion, and then, drawing upon them, he explicates his own interpretation. He critically examines the viewpoint that society is becoming more secular, and that religion is declining. He observes that this theory stands in the way of persuading sociologists that religion is still worth studying. In contrast, Greeley is interested in why religions persist despite secular trends and alongside them. He argues that it is poetic elements that touch the human soul. Greeley then sets out to test this viewpoint. Greeley maintains that his theory is not the only, or necessarily even the best approach to study religion. Rather, it is his contention that it uniquely provides sociologists with perspectives on religion that other theories too often overlook or disregard. Religion as Poetry, an original and intriguing study by a distinguished social scientist and major novelist, will be enjoyed and evaluated by sociologists, ' theologians, and philosophers alike.
Author | : Andrew M. Greeley |
Publisher | : Transaction Publishers |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 1560008997 |
"While drawing upon Weber, Durkheim, Eliade, and others, Greeley offers a theory of religion-genesis' that deserves to take its place alongside the seminal works of the aforementioned giants. An altogether remarkable volume." --Doug McAdam, University of Arizona "Father Greeley's study and the impressive data he has assembled may help us understand and begin to solve some of humankind's most pressing problems." --Reverend Michael P. Orsi, Philadelphia Inquirer
Author | : George Santayana |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 312 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : Aesthetics |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Francesca Bugliani Knox |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2016-04-22 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1317079353 |
What is the role of spiritual experience in poetry? What are the marks of a religious imagination? How close can the secular and the religious be brought together? How do poetic imagination and religious beliefs interact? Exploring such questions through the concept of the religious imagination, this book integrates interdisciplinary research in the area of poetry on the one hand, and theology, philosophy and Christian spirituality on the other. Established theologians, philosophers, literary critics and creative writers explain, by way of contemporary and historical examples, the primary role of the religious imagination in the writing as well as in the reading of poetry.
Author | : Cynthia Scheinberg |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 2002-05-30 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1139434225 |
Victorian women poets lived in a time when religion was a vital aspect of their identities. Cynthia Scheinberg examines Anglo-Jewish (Grace Aguilar and Amy Levy) and Christian (Elizabeth Barrett Browning and Christina Rossetti) women poets, and argues that there are important connections between the discourses of nineteenth-century poetry, gender and religious identity. Further, Scheinberg argues that Jewish and Christian women poets had a special interest in Jewish discourse; calling on images from Judaism and the Hebrew Scriptures, their poetry created complex arguments about the relationships between Jewish and female artistic identity. She suggests that Jewish and Christian women used poetry as a site for creative and original theological interpretation, and that they entered into dialogue through their poetry about their own and each other's religious and artistic identities. This book's interdisciplinary methodology calls on poetics, religious studies, feminist literary criticism, and little read Anglo-Jewish primary sources.
Author | : Michael D. Hurley |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2017-11-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1474234097 |
In this ambitious book, Michael D. Hurley explores how five great writers – William Blake, Alfred Tennyson, Christina Rossetti, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and T. S. Eliot – engaged their religious faith in poetry, with a view to asking why they chose that literary form in the first place. What did they believe poetry could say or do that other kinds of language or expression could not? And how might poetry itself operate as a unique mode of believing? These deep questions meet at the crossroads of poetics and metaphysics, and the writers considered here offer different answers. But these writers also collectively shed light on the interplay between literature and theology across the long nineteenth century, at a time when the authority and practice of both was being fiercely reimagined.
Author | : Kirstie Blair |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2012-05-24 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0199644500 |
This study explores Victorian poetry in relation to Victorian religion, with particular emphasis on the bitter contemporary debates over the use of forms in worship. It discusses major Victorian poets - Tennyson, the Brownings, Rossetti, Hopkins, Hardy - and also argues that their work was influenced by a host of minor and less studied writers.
Author | : James P. Carse |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781594201691 |
Argues that inappropriate beliefs, rather than organized religion, are responsible for conflicts in today's world, explaining that belief systems that perpetuate discrimination and thought restriction are not supported by core religions.
Author | : C. Walker |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 163 |
Release | : 2005-07-07 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1403979480 |
In God and Elizabeth Bishop Cheryl Walker takes the bold step of looking at the work of Elizabeth Bishop as though it might have something fresh to say about religion and poetry. Going wholly against the tide of recent academic practice, especially as applied to Bishop, she delights in presenting herself as an engaged Christian who nevertheless believes that a skeptical modern poet might feed our spiritual hungers. This is a book that reminds us of the rich tradition of religious poetry written in English, at the same time taking delicious detours into realms of humour, social responsibility, and mysticism.