The sacred desert : religion, literature, art, and culture / David Jasper.
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Malden, MA :
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / David E. Klemm
- 1. Introduction : meeting points
- 2. The Bible, Schoenberg and Heidegger
- 3. The desert fathers : wanderings and miracles
- 4. Time and memory, wind and space : the desert and mysticism
- 5. Mysticism and modernity : Thomas Merton meets Don Cupitt
- 6. The literature of the desert, I : travellers and poets
- 7. The literature of the desert, II - novelists
- 8. Artists : Georgia O'Keeffe, Bill Viola and American Abstract Expressionism
- 9. Films of the desert : Pier Paolo Pasolini, Wim Wenders and Claire Denis
- 10. Desert theology and total presence : the poets William Blake and Yves Bonnefoy meet Hegel and Tom Altizer
- 11. Conclusion : meeting point
- Postscript : the desert and the recent wars in Iraq.
