The sacred desert : religion, literature, art, and culture - Jasper, David (Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., 2004)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-199) and index.
Keywords: Spiritual life -- Christianity; Deserts -- Religious aspects -- Christianity