Hope and the longing for Utopia : futures and illusions in theology and narrative /

At present the battle over who defines our future is being waged most publicly by secular and religious fundamentalists. 'Hope and the Longing for Utopia' offers an alternative position, disclosing a conceptual path toward potential worlds that resist a limited view of human potential and...

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Other Authors / Creators:Boscaljon, Daniel, editor.
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Language:English
Imprint: Cambridge : James Clarke & Co., [2015]
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505 0 |a Front Cover; Title Page; Copyright Information; Dedication; Contents; Biographical Information for Contributors; Introduction: The Value of Cultivating Longing in a Secularized World; Part 1. Relating Hope and Utopia; 1. Utopia and Narrative: Theology between the Boundaries of Overhumanization and Hypertheism; 2. Hope, Hatred, and the Ambiguities of Utopic Longing; 3. What Means Utopia to Us? Reconsidering More's Message; 4. Desiring Utopian Subjects: Collectivity and Its Discontents; Part 2. Historical and Literary Utopian Visions. 
505 8 |a 5. John Calvin, Geneva, and Godly Patriarchs: Hope and Reality in the Creation of a Christian Utopia6. Fruit, Fossils, Footprints: Cathecting Utopia in the Work of Miyazawa Kenji; 7. Walter Kerr's Utopia of Re-Creation; 8. Reframed Hope: Transcendent Technology and Spiraling Subjectivity in Dystopian Cinema; Part 3. The Hope for Atheism as a Religious Utopia; 9. Who We Are Is God's Dying: The Real Presence of God's Absence in Bonhoeffer's Prison Poems; 10. TechnoTopia: The Convergence of Art and Technology in the Twentieth Century and Beyond. 
505 8 |a 11. The Coming Community: Agamben, Benjamin, and the Hope for a Materialist-Messianic Redemption of the Present12. No-Places for Sacred Communities: Hope and the Failure of Fight Club; Back Cover. 
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