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Product Description: In the first book to consider the study of world religion and world literature in concert, Zhange Ni proposes a new reading strategy that she calls "pagan criticism," which she applies not only to late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century literary texts that engage the global resurgence of religion but also to the very concepts of religion and the secular...read more
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9780813937670 | Univ of Virginia Pr, May 21, 2015, cover price $59.50
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9780813937687 | Univ of Virginia Pr, May 21, 2015, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: In the first book to consider the study of world religion and world literature in concert, Zhange Ni proposes a new reading strategy that she calls "pagan criticism," which she applies not only to late twentieth- and early twenty-first-century literary texts that engage the global resurgence of religion but also to the very concepts of religion and the secular.
Product Description: In Secularization without End: Beckett, Mann, Coetzee, Vincent P. Pecora elaborates an alternative history of the twentieth-century Western novel that explains the resurgence of Christian theological ideas. Standard accounts of secularization in the novel assume the gradual disappearance of religious themes through processes typically described as rationalization: philosophy and science replace faith...read more
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9780268038991 | Univ of Notre Dame Pr, March 15, 2015, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: In Secularization without End: Beckett, Mann, Coetzee, Vincent P.
Product Description: The Postsecular Imagination presents a rich, interdisciplinary study of postsecularism as an affirmational political possibility emerging through the potentials and limits of both secular and religious thought. While secularism and religion can foster inspiration and creativity, they also can be linked with violence, civil war, partition, majoritarianism, and communalism, especially within the framework of the nation-state...read more
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9780415480970 | Routledge, December 19, 2012, cover price $145.00
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9781138822375 | Reprint edition (Routledge, November 10, 2014), cover price $48.95 | About this edition: The Postsecular Imagination presents a rich, interdisciplinary study of postsecularism as an affirmational political possibility emerging through the potentials and limits of both secular and religious thought.
Product Description: Modernist thinkers once presumed a progressive secularity, with the novel replacing religious texts as societyâs moral epics. Yet religionâbeginning with the Iranian revolution of 1979, through the collapse of communism, and culminating in the singular rupture of September 11, 2001âhas not retreated quietly out of sight...read more
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9780810129894 | Northwestern Univ Pr, July 31, 2014, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Modernist thinkers once presumed a progressive secularity, with the novel replacing religious texts as societyâs moral epics.
Secular criticism is a term invented by Edward Said to denote not a theory but a practice that counters the tendency of much modern thinking to reach for a transcendentalist comfort zone, the very space philosophy wrested away from religion in the name of modernity. Using this notion as a compass, this book reconfigures recent secularism debates on an entirely different basis, by showing (1) how the secular imagination is closely linked to society's radical poiesis, its capacity to imagine and create unprecedented forms of worldly existence; and (2) how the space of the secular animates the desire for a radical democratic politics that overturns inherited modes of subjugation, whether religious or secularist.Gourgouris's point is to disrupt the co-dependent relation between the religious and the secular hence, his rejection of fashionable languages of postsecularism in order to engage in a double critique of heteronomous politics of all kinds. For him, secular criticism is a form of political being: critical, antifoundational, disobedient, anarchic, yet not negative for negation's sake but creative of new forms of collective reflection, interrogation, and action that alter not only the current terrain of dominant politics but also the very self-conceptualization of what it means to be human.Written in a free and combative style and given both to close readings of texts and to gazing off into the broad horizon, these essays cover a range of issues historical and philosophical, archaic and contemporary, literary and political that ultimately converge in the significance of contemporary radical politics: the assembly movements we have seen in various parts of the world in recent years. The secular imagination demands a radical pedagogy and unlearning a great many established thought patterns. Its most important dimension is not battling religion per se but dismantling theological politics of sovereignty in favor of radical conditions for social autonomy.
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9780823253784 | Fordham Univ Pr, September 1, 2013, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: Secular criticism is a term invented by Edward Said to denote not a theory but a practice that counters the tendency of much modern thinking to reach for a transcendentalist comfort zone, the very space philosophy wrested away from religion in the name of modernity.
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9780823253791 | Fordham Univ Pr, September 1, 2013, cover price $29.00
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9780268036119 | Univ of Notre Dame Pr, May 15, 2013, cover price $42.00
Product Description: Chilean poet, educator, diplomat, and feminist Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) rose from poverty in the foothills of the Andes to become the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945. This volume provides both a detailed biography of the author and a careful analysis of her writing...read more
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9780786464852 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, July 30, 2012, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Chilean poet, educator, diplomat, and feminist Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957) rose from poverty in the foothills of the Andes to become the first Latin American to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1945.
Product Description: The Play of Reasons argues that Salman Rushdieâs eclectic and hybridized work can be situated within an Islamic genealogy of theological and literary traditions. Rushdieâs prose is difficult to conceive as unitary in meaning precisely because it operates according to a polymorphous Islamic literary and theological register, while also being divided by the Greek, Abrahamic, and Indian dimensions...read more
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9781433113260 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, June 10, 2012, cover price $83.95 | About this edition: The Play of Reasons argues that Salman Rushdieâs eclectic and hybridized work can be situated within an Islamic genealogy of theological and literary traditions.
Product Description: Literary depictions of the sacred and the secular from the Middle Ages are representative of the era's widely held cultural understandings related to religion and the nature of lived experience. Using late Medieval English literature, including some of Chaucer's writings, these essays do not try to define a secular realm distinct and separate from the divine or religious, but instead analyze intersections of the sacred and the profane, suggesting that these two categories are mutually constitutive rather than antithetical...read more
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9781442640818 | Univ of Toronto Pr, November 1, 2010, cover price $64.00 | About this edition: Literary depictions of the sacred and the secular from the Middle Ages are representative of the era's widely held cultural understandings related to religion and the nature of lived experience.
Product Description: This study explores the connections between a secular Indian nation and fiction in English by a number of postcolonial Indian writers of the 1980s and 90s. Examining writers such as Vikram Seth, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, Shashi Tharoor, and Rohinton Mistry, with particularly close readings of Midnight�s Children, A Suitable Boy, The Shadow Lines and The Satanic Verses, Neelam Srivastava investigates different aspects of postcolonial identity within the secular framework of the Anglophone novel...read more
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9780415402958 | Routledge, October 30, 2007, cover price $130.00 | About this edition: This study explores the connections between a secular Indian nation and fiction in English by a number of postcolonial Indian writers of the 1980s and 90s.
Product Description: This book focuses on one of Africa's major novelists, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, who depicts and analyzes many of the tensions associated with the colonization of East Africa by Europeans. Through his Christian education in Kenya, Ngugi became highly knowledgeable of both the Old and New Testament Scriptures and of inconsistencies between the political policies of foreign-controlled imperial administrations and their lip-service to Christian beliefs...read more
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9780773454965 | Edwin Mellen Pr, March 1, 2007, cover price $139.95 | About this edition: This book focuses on one of Africa's major novelists, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, who depicts and analyzes many of the tensions associated with the colonization of East Africa by Europeans.
Product Description: This book illuminates the pervasive interplay of 'sacred' and 'secular' phenomena in the literature, history, politics, and religion of the Middle Ages and Early Modern periods. The essays gathered here constitute a new way of applying a classic dichotomy to major cultural phenomena of the pre-modern era...read more
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9781403967329 | Palgrave Macmillan, February 5, 2006, cover price $115.00 | About this edition: This book illuminates the pervasive interplay of 'sacred' and 'secular' phenomena in the literature, history, politics, and religion of the Middle Ages and Early Modern periods.
Product Description: The idea of God, in one form or another, is a fundamental part of human experience - a given, almost. And yet, for over one hundred and fifty years, we have lived in a world become increasingly secular. The goal of this book is to reconcile these facts, or rather to examine their interaction and, in so doing, to understand the idea and the experience of secularism...read more
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9780838756096 | Bucknell Univ Pr, December 1, 2005, cover price $44.50 | About this edition: The idea of God, in one form or another, is a fundamental part of human experience - a given, almost.
9781611482263 | Bucknell Univ Pr, December 1, 2005, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: This is a literary and philosophical study that links the idea of secularism to the form of the novel.
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9780809137084 | Paulist Pr, May 1, 1997, cover price $9.95
After Eden: The Secularization of American Space in the Fiction of Willa Cather and Theodore Dreiser
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9781611480627 | Bucknell Univ Pr, July 1, 1990, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: The transformation of the American sense of religious identity and destiny that occurred toward the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth is illustrated through a literary and cultural analysis of the fiction of Willa Cather and Theodore Dreiser.
9780838751688 | Bucknell Univ Pr, June 1, 1990, cover price $32.50 | About this edition: The transformation of the American sense of religious identity and destiny that occurred toward the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth is illustrated through a literary and cultural analysis of the fiction of Willa Cather and Theodore Dreiser.
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