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UNINA9910782737503321 |
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Ziolkowski Theodore |
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Titolo |
Modes of faith [[electronic resource] ] : secular surrogates for lost religious belief / / Theodore Ziolkowski |
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Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2007 |
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1-281-96690-8 |
9786611966904 |
0-226-98366-8 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (296 p.) |
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Implicit religion - Europe - History - 20th century |
Religion and literature - Europe - History - 20th century |
Secularism - Europe - History - 20th century |
Secularism in literature |
European literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
Europe Religion 20th century |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-272) and index. |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Melancholy, Long, Withdrawing Roar -- 3. Theologians of the Profane -- 4. The Religion of Art -- 5. Pilgrimages to India -- 6. The God That Failed -- 7. The Hunger for Myth -- 8. The Longing for Utopia -- 9. Renewals of Spirituality -- Notes -- Index |
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In the decades surrounding World War I, religious belief receded in the face of radical new ideas such as Marxism, modern science, Nietzschean philosophy, and critical theology. Modes of Faith addresses both this decline of religious belief and the new modes of secular faith that took religion's place in the minds of many writers and poets.Theodore Ziolkowski here examines the motives for this embrace of the secular, locating new modes of faith in art, escapist travel, socialism, politicized myth, and utopian visions. James Joyce, he reveals, turned to art as an esc |
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UNINA9910786613903321 |
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Volkan Vamik D. <1932-> |
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Killing in the name of identity : a study of bloody conflicts / / Vamik Volkan |
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Charlottesville, Virginia : , : Pitchstone Publishing, , 2006 |
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[First edition.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (309 p.) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-293) and index. |
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Massive trauma in the republic of Georgia -- Three generations at the Golden Fleece -- Waiting ten years to mourn or not mourn -- More on refugees and their linking objects -- "Have you read Sophie's Choice?" -- From natural disasters to ethnic cleansing -- AWON and four thousand gold stars -- "Hot places," memorials, apologies, and forgiveness -- The Bataan death march and animal killings -- The political ideology of entitlement and "chosen," "acute," and "hot" traumas -- From formal to unofficial diplomacy : an overview -- From theory to practice : the tree model -- A Fourth of July party with heavy artillery fire. |
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"Why do they hate us so?" Vamik Volkan has the most compelling, humane, and universal response to the riddle of our time. In this extraordinary and timely book, Volkan explains better than anyone the relationship between large-group identities and massive traumas and current events and ongoing conflicts around the world, including those related to the horrific attacks of 9/11. In Killing in the Name of Identity, Volkan has taken us further, and deeper, into the dark and vulnerable collective mind of ethnic, religious, cultural, and national group conflict. Through his eyes and word |
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