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Hope and the Longing for Utopia: Futures and Illusions in Theology and Narrative

Hope and the Longing for Utopia: Futures and Illusions in Theology and Narrative

Boscaljon, Daniel

Paperback

General ChristianitySelf-HelpSocial Movements

ISBN10: 0227175050
ISBN13: 9780227175057
Publisher: James Clarke Company
Published: Feb 26 2015
Pages: 260
Weight: 0.78
Height: 0.55 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Interdisciplinary essays examining religious and secular visions of utopia, offering a way past ideological certainty to a mature hope for future betterment.

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 the gift of religion. In addition to outlining the value of embracing unknown potentialities, these twelve interdisciplinary essays explore why it has become crucial that we commit to hoping for values that resist traditional ideological commitments. Contextualized by contemporary writing on utopia, and drawing from a wealth of times and cultures ranging from Calvin's Geneva to early twentieth-century Japanese children's stories to Hollywood cinema, these essays cumulatively disclose the fundamental importance of resisting tantalizing certainties while considering the importance of the unknown and unknowable.

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