TY - BOOK AU - Jasper,David TI - The sacred desert: religion, literature, art, and culture SN - 1405119748 (hardcover : alk. paper) AV - BV4501.3 .J37 2004 U1 - 248 22 PY - 2004/// CY - Malden, MA PB - Blackwell Pub. KW - Spiritual life KW - Christianity KW - Deserts KW - Religious aspects N1 - 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 UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip048/2003019365.html ER -