Research Catalog

Title

Hope and the longing for utopia : futures and illusions in theology and narrative / edited by Daniel Boscaljon.

Publication

Eugene, Oregon : Pickwick Publications, [2014]

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Details

Additional Authors

Boscaljon, Daniel.

Description

xx, 239 pages; 23 cm

Subject

• Utopias
• Utopias > Religious aspects
• Religion and civilization
• Secularism
• Atheism
• Utopies
• Religion et civilisation
• Athéisme
• utopian literature
• utopias
• atheism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part 1. Relating hope and Utopia -- Utopia and narrative: theology between the boundaries of overhumanization and hypertheisms / Verna Ehret -- Hope, hatred, and the ambiguities of Utopic longing / Diana Fritz Cates -- What means Utopia to us? Reconsidering More's message / Marybeth Baggett -- Desiring Utopian subjects: collectivity and its discontents/ Holly White -- Part 2. Historical and literary Utopian visions -- John Calvin, Geneva, and godly patriarchs: hope and reality in the creation of a Christian Utopia / Ezra L. Plank -- Fruit, fossils, footprints: cathecting Utopia in the work of Miyazawa Kenjo / Melissa Anne-Marie Curley -- Walter Kerr's Utopia of re-creation / Benjamin K. Hunnicutt-- Reframed hope: trancendent technology and spiraling subjectivity in Dystopian cinema / Everett Hamner-- Part 3. The hope for atheism as a religious Utopia -- Who we are is God's dying: the real presence of God's absence in Bonhoeffer's prison poems / Steven Schroeder --Techno topia: the convergence of art and technology in the twentieth century and beyond J. Sage Elwell -- The coming community: Agamben, Benjamin, and the hope for a materialist-Messianic redemption of the present / W. David Hall -- No-places for sacred communities: hope and the failure of Fight Club / Daniel Boscaljon.

ISBN

• 1620329336
• 9781620329337

OCLC

• 890614882
• SCSB-12546947

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library