{"product_id":"sacred-modes-of-being-in-a-postsecular-world-hardback-9781316517918","title":"Sacred Modes of Being in a Postsecular World (Hardback) 9781316517918","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eSacred Modes of Being in a Postsecular World\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA powerful new exploration of the sacred, from many distinguished theologians, that speaks to a postsecular context and its challenges.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eAndrew W. Hass (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781316517918, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 16 September 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.8 x 2 cm, 0.53 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis volume assembles high-calibre contributions from an impressive, international group of theologians at the top of their profession writing on an important subject: the place of the sacred in the post-secular world. I greatly admire what this volume accomplishes in contributing to a number of significant debates. Eric Ziolkowski, Lafayette College\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHow do we talk meaningfully about the sacred in contexts where conventional religious expression has so often lost its power? Inspired by the influential work of David Jasper, this important volume builds on his thinking to identify sacrality in a world where the old religious and secular debates have exhausted themselves and theology struggles for a new language in their wake. Distinguished writers explore here the idea of the sacred as one that exists, paradoxically, in a space that is both possible and impossible: profoundly theological on the one hand, but also deeply this-worldly and irreligious on the other. This is a sacredness that is simultaneously 'present' and 'absent': one which encompasses – as Jasper himself characterises it – 'the impossible possibility of an absolute vision'. The book teaches us that the sacred assumes a renewed potency when fully engaged with the creativity that happens across religion, literature, philosophy and the arts.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction Andrew W. Hass\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Jasper's Sacred Mode of Being: 1. The sacred opening Andrew W. Hass\u003cbr\u003e 2. A sacramental world: Refiguring the sacred and the secular in David Jasper's 'Sacred' trilogy Paul S. Fiddes\u003cbr\u003e 3. Sacred thinking? Thinking theologically with David Jasper and Paul Gauguin Mattias Martinson\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Theology's Cultural Mode of the Sacred: 4. Theology as literature, rhetoric and ideology Graham Ward\u003cbr\u003e 5. Hope in the sacred community Werner G. Jeanrond\u003cbr\u003e 6. The advent of the nothing Thomas J.J. Altizer\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Culture's Theological Mode of the Sacred: 7. The interdisciplinary nature of literature and theology Yang Huilin\u003cbr\u003e 8. William Blake as leitourgos Christopher Rowland\u003cbr\u003e 9. Bodies dead or alive? Intermediality, ambiguity, and the politics of dying Mieke Bal\u003cbr\u003e 10. The desert is in the words we speak George Pattison\u003cbr\u003e Afterword David Jasper.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Theology [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Theology\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Theology%20%5BHRLB%5D%22\"\u003eHRLB\u003c\/a\u003e], Philosophy of religion [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Philosophy of religion\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Philosophy%20of%20religion%20%5BHRAB%5D%22\"\u003eHRAB\u003c\/a\u003e], Literary theory [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary theory\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20theory%20%5BDSA%5D%22\"\u003eDSA\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46266473808152,"sku":"9781316517918","price":72.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781316517918i_4c0ac7c0-3478-4c7e-9c0e-68790d55f470.jpg?v=1696681781","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/sacred-modes-of-being-in-a-postsecular-world-hardback-9781316517918","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}