Hope and the longing for Utopia : futures and illusions in theology and narrative /: futures and illusions in theology and narrative. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• 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; Electronic books; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780227903902; 0227903900; 0227175050; 9780227175057
• Related ISBNs: 9780227175057
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