Literature and Spirituality
ISBN: 9780205744886 | 0205744885
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: Longman
Pub. Date: 12/7/2010
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Literature and Spirituality is part of Longman's The Essential Literature Series. This book takes the reader on a literary spritiual journal through diverse works of literature. This anthology of literary works gives a taste of some of the ways writers have explored, shared, dismissed, or argued about the ultimate, spiritual questions of life. The first goal of this book is to give a range of works which show how authors can take us beyond our immediate, daily experience. The second, more subtle, goal of this work is that readers will seek to f... MORE
| Genre Approach to Spirituality | p. ix |
| American Literature from Theism to Postmodernism: A Historiography of Spirituality | p. xi |
| Spirituality in the Context of the Judeo-Christian Tradition | p. xiii |
| Spirituality in Non-Western, Non-Judeo-Christian Contexts | p. xv |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Spirituality As Quest | p. 4 |
| from Dhammapada | p. 4 |
| from Tâo Teh King | p. 7 | ... MORE
| from Siddhartha | p. 9 |
| Three Parables about Losing and Finding (including the Prodigal Son) | p. 17 |
| from Confessions | p. 19 |
| The Ascent of Mount Ventoux | p. 30 |
| from Confessions | p. 36 |
| The New Colossus | p. 44 |
| The Waste Land | p. 46 |
| Journey of the Magi | p. 49 |
| from Zaabalawi | p. 51 |
| Movie Guide for The Fiddler on the Roof | p. 59 |
| Spirituality in the Context of Pride, Rebellion, and Submission | p. 64 |
| from Mere Christianity | p. 65 |
| from The Screwtape Letters | p. 71 |
| from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe | p. 75 |
| from One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | p. 84 |
| On His Blindness (When I Consider How My Light Is Spent) | p. 99 |
| Holy Sonnet 14: Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God | p. 100 |
| The Collar | p. 101 |
| The Anvil-God's Word | p. 102 |
| Dead Men's Path | p. 104 |
| Movie Guide for Chariots of Fire | p. 107 |
| Products of Spirituality: Belief, Prayers, Worship, and Morality | p. 110 |
| The Story of Joseph | p. 110 |
| Joseph in the Bible | p. 111 |
| Joseph in the Koran | p. 127 |
| Psalms | p. 134 |
| Psalm 51-from The Bible | p. 135 |
| Psalm 104-from The Bible | p. 136 |
| Psalm 139-from The Bible | p. 138 |
| from the Bhagavad-Gita | p. 140 |
| Husband Inside | p. 149 |
| Let Us Go to a Realm Beyond Going | p. 151 |
| Healing Prayer from the Beautyway Chant | p. 152 |
| Contemplations | p. 153 |
| The Declaration of Independence | p. 161 |
| God's Grandeur | p. 164 |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | p. 165 |
| Each and All | p. 166 |
| Uriel | p. 167 |
| The Gift | p. 169 |
| Dawn | p. 170 |
| Two Kinds | p. 171 |
| Where Mountain Lion Lay Down with Deer | p. 180 |
| The Bear | p. 182 |
| Movie Guide for A Man for All Seasons | p. 183 |
| Challenges of Spirituality: Faith, Dilemma, Duplicity, and Doubt | p. 187 |
| Young Goodman Brown | p. 187 |
| The Second Coming | p. 197 |
| Emily Dickinson | p. 198 |
| Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church | p. 199 |
| The Lightning is a Yellow Fork | p. 199 |
| The Preacher: Ruminates Behind the Sermon | p. 200 |
| We Wear the Mask | p. 201 |
| Salvation | p. 202 |
| The Fury of Aerial Bombardment | p. 205 |
| from The House on Mango Street | p. 206 |
| from Stealing Buddha's Dinner | p. 209 |
| Movie Guide for Sergeant York | p. 217 |
| Life, Redemption, Death, and the Afterlife in Context of Spirituality | p. 220 |
| Spirituals | p. 220 |
| Go Down, Moses | p. 221 |
| I Know Moon-Rise | p. 221 |
| Thanatopsis | p. 223 |
| The Ephemera: An Emblem of Human Life | p. 225 |
| The Middle Years | p. 227 |
| A Mystery of Heroism | p. 243 |
| Last Words | p. 250 |
| Facing It | p. 251 |
| A Good Man Is Hard to Find | p. 253 |
| Everyman | p. 265 |
| Credits | p. 289 |
| Index | p. 291 |
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