The Longing for Home

by Rouner, Leroy S.

• ISBN13: 9780268013103
• ISBN10: 0268013101
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1997-04-01
• Publisher: Univ of Notre Dame Pr

Summary

In its tradition of dialogue and exchange, the Boston Studies in Philosophy and Religion continues the exploration of major issues in human life which are often neglected by most professional philosophers and religious thinkers. The authors of The Longing for Home explore the notion that home is both a place and a condition of the spirit. While a person may have a place that is home, he or she may also be nostalgic for an inner spiritual home which beckons even as it lies beyond the human grasp. This latest book in the Boston University series explores the spiritual and emotional depths of our human sense of home, providing ample ground for intellectual engagement and personal reflection.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgments	xi
Contributors	xiii
Introduction	1	(16)
Leroy S. Rouner
PART I: TALES OF HOME
Longing for Home	17	(13)
Elie Wiesel
Of Dwelling and Wayfaring: A Quest for Metaphors	30	(17)
Erazim Kohak
The Only Henniker on Earth	47	(16)
Werner Gundersheimer
The Longing for Home	63	(18)
Frederick Buechner
PART II: THE MEANING OF HOME
Home Is Where We've Never Been: Experience and Transcendence	81	(14)
Leroy S. Rouner
Are We at Home in the World?	95	(17)
Remi Brague
Places of Experience and the Experience of Place	112	(16)
Katherine Platt
The Man Who Committed Adultery with His Own Wife	128	(20)
Wendy Doniger
Home and Zakhor---Remember!	148	(22)
Alfred I. Tauber
Shekinah: The Home of the Homeless God	170	(17)
Jurgen Moltmann
PART III: NOSTALGIA AND HOPE IN A HOMELESS AGE
Dwellers, Migrants, Nomads: Home in the Age of the Refugee	187	(17)
Edith Wyschogrod
Hospitality: Home as the Integration of Privacy and Community	204	(13)
Rosemary L. Haughton
Ecofeminism and the Longing for Home	217	(13)
Karen J. Warren
The Indian Diaspora and Its Conception of Home	230	(13)
Bhikhu Parekh
The Terror of Land Loss, the Dream of Finding Home	243	(22)
Martin E. Marty
Author Index	265	(2)
Subject Index	267