Locations of the sacred : essays on religion, literature, and Canadian culture /

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Author / Creator:James, William C. (William Closson), 1943-
Imprint:Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1998.
Description:1 online resource (xviii, 270 pages)
Language:English
Subject:Spirituality in literature.
Religion in literature.
Religion and culture -- Canada.
Canadian literature (English) -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Spiritualité dans la littérature.
Religion dans la littérature.
Religion et culture -- Canada.
ART -- Reference.
ART -- Performance.
Religion and culture.
Religion in literature.
Spirituality in literature.
Canada.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Livres numériques.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11110670
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ISBN:0585261873
9780585261874
9780889202931
0889202931
0889207577
9780889207578
1280925043
9781280925047
0889202931
9786610925049
6610925046
Notes:Includes notes at chapter ends, bibliographical references (pages 245-264), and index.
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Summary:Where do Canadians encounter religious meaning? Not where they used to! In ten lively and wide-ranging essays, William Closson James examines various derivations of the sacred in contemporary Canadian culture. Most of the essays focus on the religious aspects of modern Canadian English fiction -- for example, in essays on the fiction of Hugh MacLennan, Morley Callaghan, Margaret Atwood and Joy Kogawa. But James also explores other, non-literary events and activities in which Canadians have found something transcendant or revelatory. Each of the chapters in Locations of the Sacred can be read independently as a discrete analysis of its subject. Taken as a whole, the essays make up a powerful argument for a new way of looking at the religious in contemporary Canada -- not in the traditional ways of being religious, but in activities and locations previously thought to be "secular." Thus, the domains and modes of the religious are expanded, not restricted.
Other form:Print version: James, William Closson. Locations of the sacred. Waterloo, Ont. : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1998 0889202931