Literature and Spirituality

by Adu-Gyamfi, Yaw; Schmidt, Mark Ray

• ISBN13: 9780205744886
• ISBN10: 0205744885
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2019-11-12
• Publisher: Pearson

Summary

Literature and Spirituality#xA0;is part of Longman's The Essential Literature Series.#xA0;This book takes the reader on a literary spritiual journal through diverse works of literature.#xA0; This anthology of literary works gives a taste of some of the ways writers have explored, shared, dismissed, or argued about the ultimate, spiritual questions of life.#xA0; The first goal of this book is to give a range of works which show how authors can take us beyond our immediate, daily experience.#xA0; The second, more subtle, goal of this work is that readers will seek to find health in their spiritual lives.#xA0; In spite of radical differences, the religions of the world share a common concern:#xA0; humanity is searching for a spiritual peace which can give the individual an anchor to survive the storms of life.#xA0; The editors of this anthology have their firm conclusions about how people can find peace with God.#xA0; They invite you to also explore this issue for yourself.#xA0; They hope that these selections will challenge you to seek the personal peace and spiritual health which Jesus promised. #xA0;

Table of Contents

Genre Approach to Spirituality	p. ix
American Literature from Theism to Postmodernism: A Historiography of Spirituality	p. xi
Spirituality in the Context of the Judeo-Christian Tradition	p. xiii
Spirituality in Non-Western, Non-Judeo-Christian Contexts	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Spirituality As Quest	p. 4
from Dhammapada	p. 4
from Tâo Teh King	p. 7
from Siddhartha	p. 9
Three Parables about Losing and Finding (including the Prodigal Son)	p. 17
from Confessions	p. 19
The Ascent of Mount Ventoux	p. 30
from Confessions	p. 36
The New Colossus	p. 44
The Waste Land	p. 46
Journey of the Magi	p. 49
from Zaabalawi	p. 51
Movie Guide for The Fiddler on the Roof	p. 59
Spirituality in the Context of Pride, Rebellion, and Submission	p. 64
from Mere Christianity	p. 65
from The Screwtape Letters	p. 71
from The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe	p. 75
from One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich	p. 84
On His Blindness (When I Consider How My Light Is Spent)	p. 99
Holy Sonnet 14: Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God	p. 100
The Collar	p. 101
The Anvil-God's Word	p. 102
Dead Men's Path	p. 104
Movie Guide for Chariots of Fire	p. 107
Products of Spirituality: Belief, Prayers, Worship, and Morality	p. 110
The Story of Joseph	p. 110
Joseph in the Bible	p. 111
Joseph in the Koran	p. 127
Psalms	p. 134
Psalm 51-from The Bible	p. 135
Psalm 104-from The Bible	p. 136
Psalm 139-from The Bible	p. 138
from the Bhagavad-Gita	p. 140
Husband Inside	p. 149
Let Us Go to a Realm Beyond Going	p. 151
Healing Prayer from the Beautyway Chant	p. 152
Contemplations	p. 153
The Declaration of Independence	p. 161
God's Grandeur	p. 164
Ralph Waldo Emerson	p. 165
Each and All	p. 166
Uriel	p. 167
The Gift	p. 169
Dawn	p. 170
Two Kinds	p. 171
Where Mountain Lion Lay Down with Deer	p. 180
The Bear	p. 182
Movie Guide for A Man for All Seasons	p. 183
Challenges of Spirituality: Faith, Dilemma, Duplicity, and Doubt	p. 187
Young Goodman Brown	p. 187
The Second Coming	p. 197
Emily Dickinson	p. 198
Some Keep the Sabbath Going to Church	p. 199
The Lightning is a Yellow Fork	p. 199
The Preacher: Ruminates Behind the Sermon	p. 200
We Wear the Mask	p. 201
Salvation	p. 202
The Fury of Aerial Bombardment	p. 205
from The House on Mango Street	p. 206
from Stealing Buddha's Dinner	p. 209
Movie Guide for Sergeant York	p. 217
Life, Redemption, Death, and the Afterlife in Context of Spirituality	p. 220
Spirituals	p. 220
Go Down, Moses	p. 221
I Know Moon-Rise	p. 221
Thanatopsis	p. 223
The Ephemera: An Emblem of Human Life	p. 225
The Middle Years	p. 227
A Mystery of Heroism	p. 243
Last Words	p. 250
Facing It	p. 251
A Good Man Is Hard to Find	p. 253
Everyman	p. 265
Credits	p. 289
Index	p. 291
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