Hope and the longing for Utopia : futures and illusions in theology and narrative /: futures and illusions in theology and narrative. ([2015])
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- Book
- Title:
- Hope and the longing for Utopia : futures and illusions in theology and narrative /: futures and illusions in theology and narrative. ([2015])
- Main Title:
- Hope and the longing for Utopia : futures and illusions in theology and narrative
- Further Information:
- Note: Edited by Daniel Boscaljon.
- Editors:
- Boscaljon, Daniel
- Contents:
- Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Information; Dedication; Contents; Biographical Information for Contributors; Introduction: The Value of Cultivating Longing in a Secularized World; Part 1. Relating Hope and Utopia; 1. Utopia and Narrative: Theology between the Boundaries of Overhumanization and Hypertheism; 2. Hope, Hatred, and the Ambiguities of Utopic Longing; 3. What Means Utopia to Us? Reconsidering More's Message; 4. Desiring Utopian Subjects: Collectivity and Its Discontents; Part 2. Historical and Literary Utopian Visions. 5. John Calvin, Geneva, and Godly Patriarchs: Hope and Reality in the Creation of a Christian Utopia6. Fruit, Fossils, Footprints: Cathecting Utopia in the Work of Miyazawa Kenji; 7. Walter Kerr's Utopia of Re-Creation; 8. Reframed Hope: Transcendent Technology and Spiraling Subjectivity in Dystopian Cinema; Part 3. The Hope for Atheism as a Religious Utopia; 9. Who We Are Is God's Dying: The Real Presence of God's Absence in Bonhoeffer's Prison Poems; 10. TechnoTopia: The Convergence of Art and Technology in the Twentieth Century and Beyond. 11. The Coming Community: Agamben, Benjamin, and the Hope for a Materialist-Messianic Redemption of the Present12. No-Places for Sacred Communities: Hope and the Failure of Fight Club; Back Cover.
- Publisher Details:
- Cambridge : James Clarke & Co
- Publication Date:
- 2015
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 321.07
Utopias
Utopias -- Religious aspects
Religion and civilization
Secularism
Atheism
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General
RELIGION -- Christian Theology -- Christology
Atheism
Religion and civilization
Secularism
Utopias
Utopias -- Religious aspects
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- English
- ISBNs:
- 9780227903902
0227903900
0227175050
9780227175057 - Related ISBNs:
- 9780227175057
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