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Titolo |
Silence, the word and the sacred : essays / / by Rudy Wiebe ... [et al.] ; edited by E.D. Blodgett and H.G. Coward |
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Waterloo, Ont., : Published by Wilfrid Laurier University Press for the Calgary Institute for the Humanities, c1989 |
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ISBN |
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0-88920-524-8 |
1-280-92592-2 |
9786610925926 |
0-88920-879-4 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (241 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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WiebeRudy Henry <1934-> |
BlodgettE. D |
CowardHarold G |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Holy, The, in literature |
Language and languages - Religious aspects |
Silence - Religious aspects |
Poetry - History and criticism |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Papers presented at the conference, Silence, the Sacred and the Word, held in Calgary, Alta., Oct. 2-5, 1986. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Table of Contents; Foreword; About the Authors; Introduction; Notes; I: Experience of the Sacred by Poets and Writers; II: The Sacred Word in Specific Settings; III: Conclusion; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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The result of a dialogue between poets and scholars on the meaning and making of the sacred, this book endeavours to determine how the sacred emerges in sacred script as well as in poetic discourse. It ranges through scholarship in areas as apparently disparate as postmodernism and Buddhism. The perspectives developed are various and without closure, locating the sacred in modes as diverse as patristic traditions, feminist retranslations of biblical texts, and oral and written versions of documents from the world's religions. The essays cohere in their preoccupation with the crucial role l |
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