عنوان

Finding the Prophetic in Failure

Number

LA125341

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انگلیسی

Title Proper

Finding the Prophetic in Failure

General Material Designation

[Article]

First Statement of Responsibility

Kathryn Ludwig

Place of Publication, Distribution, etc.

Leiden

Name of Publisher, Distributor, etc.

Brill

Text of Note

In recent decades, a body of literary writing has emerged in which religious questions are foregrounded. This body of writing and the criticism connected with it is increasingly referred to as postsecular. In E. L. Doctorow's City of God, the characters and the text perform the struggle of reading prophetically, as it is defined in the writings of Jewish philosopher Martin Buber. In his time, Buber urged not a return to existing models of the religious, but a turn toward prophetic reading, which is founded in relation. Literary writing of this postsecular moment, including City of God, is likewise engaged in a reconceptualization of the religious. Doctorow's novel conveys the idea that engaging the religious involves failure, but that it is through failure that we are pushed to a new modality of reading. In recent decades, a body of literary writing has emerged in which religious questions are foregrounded. This body of writing and the criticism connected with it is increasingly referred to as postsecular. In E. L. Doctorow's City of God, the characters and the text perform the struggle of reading prophetically, as it is defined in the writings of Jewish philosopher Martin Buber. In his time, Buber urged not a return to existing models of the religious, but a turn toward prophetic reading, which is founded in relation. Literary writing of this postsecular moment, including City of God, is likewise engaged in a reconceptualization of the religious. Doctorow's novel conveys the idea that engaging the religious involves failure, but that it is through failure that we are pushed to a new modality of reading.

Date of Publication

2015

Physical description

230-258

Title

Religion and the Arts

Volume Number

19/3

International Standard Serial Number

1568-5292

Subject Term

E. L. Doctorow

Subject Term

fiction

Subject Term

Martin Buber

Subject Term

Midrash

Subject Term

postsecular

Subject Term

prophetic reading

Subject Term

religion

Subject Term

secular

Kathryn Ludwig

Call Number

10.1163/15685292-01903003

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[Article]

275578

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