Playful wisdom : reimagining the sacred in American literature, from Walden to Gilead /
"This book examines play and religion in American literature, exploring a unique kind of modern piety that arises not based on fixed doctrines or ecclesiastical structures, but on a light-handed responsiveness of spirit that constantly adapts to new perspectives and revises fixed assumptions in...
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Lanham, Maryland :
Lexington Books, an imprint of The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc.,
[2020]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: This is play
- Play and attunement : the spirituality of Walden
- Play and possibility : Emily Dickinson's theology of perhaps
- Play and improvisation : Jack Kerouac's singing theology
- Play and nonsense : Thomas Merton's last poem
- Play and risk : Annie Dillard's daredevil faith
- Play and understanding : Marilynne Robinson's religious hermeneutics.