Sacred Modes of Being in a Postsecular World - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1009048643 ISBN 13: 9781009048644

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2024

Synopsis

How 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.

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About the Author

Andrew W. Hass is Reader in Religion at the University of Stirling. He works at the intersections of religion, theology, philosophy, art and hermeneutics. He is General Secretary of the International Society of Religion, Literature and Culture, and was a founding member of Critical Religion Association. For many years he was in addition Executive Editor of the journal Literature and Theology. His books include Auden's O and Hegel and the Art of Negation.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1009048643
• ISBN 13: 9781009048644
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 268
• Editor: Andrew W. Hass