The sacred desert : religion, literature, art, and culture / David Jasper.
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TextPublication details: Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004.Description: xix, 208 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN: - 1405119748 (hardcover : alk. paper)
- 1405119756 (pbk. : alk. paper)
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- BV4501.3Â .J37 2004
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-199) and index.
Introduction: meeting points -- The Bible, Schoenberg, and Heidegger -- The desert fathers : wanderings and miracles -- Time and memory, wind and space : the desert and mysticism -- Mysticism and modernity : Thomas Merton meets Don Cupitt -- The literature of the desert, I : travellers and poets -- The literature of the desert, II : novelists -- Artists : Georgia O'Keeffe, Bill Viola, and American abstract expressionism -- Films of the desert : Pier Paolo Pasolini, Wim Wenders, and Claire Denis -- Desert theology and total presence : the poets William Blake and Yves Bonnefoy meet Hegel and Tom Altizer -- Conclusion: meeting point.
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