Locations of the Sacred : Essays on Religion, Literature and Canadian Culture.

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Main Author: James, William Closson
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Language:English
Published: Waterloo : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006.

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505 0 |a Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1 Dislocating the Sacred: The Protestant Voice -- The Protestant Voice -- A Protestant Trio: Davies, MacLennan, and Laurence -- Imprisonment and Liberation -- How Is Canadian Literature Religious? -- The Protestant Principle in English-Canadian Fiction -- A Tentative Conclusion -- CHAPTER 2 Relocating the Sacred: The Human Ground of Transcendence -- Eternity and Transcendence -- Eternity in Callaghan and MacLennan -- The Ordinary and the Sacred in Mitchell and Munro. 
505 8 |a Divining the Depths in Davies, Laurence, and AtwoodConclusion -- CHAPTER 3 Nature as the Locale of the Sacred -- Native and Christian Attitudes -- Some Typical Canadian Views -- Geography over History -- A New Direction -- CHAPTER 4 In Quest of the Sacred: The Canoe Trip -- The Quest Pattern -- States of the Quest -- Transformative Quest and Canadian Character -- The Canoe Trip as Initiation Rite -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 5 Sacred Death: The Belcher Islands Massacre -- Introduction -- Geographical and Religious Backgrounds -- Narrative of the Events. 
505 8 |a The Contemporary Reaction to the MurdersAnalysis -- A Personal Epilogue -- CHAPTER 6 Theodicy and the Sacred: A.M. Klein and Hugh MacLennan -- Parallel Dislocations -- The Second Scroll as Theodicy -- The Watch that Ends the Night and Selfhood -- The Everyman and the Self -- Chaos into Cosmos -- CHAPTER 7 Love and the Sacred: The Ambiguities of Morley Callaghan's Such Is My Beloved -- Callaghan's Certain Perceptions -- The Two Conflicting Realms -- The Song of Songs: Love and the Sacred -- Conclusion: Incarnational Humanism. 
505 8 |a CHAPTER 8 Sacred Passages: Native Symbols in Atwood and EngelThe Female Initiation Pattern -- Atwood's Surfacing -- Engel's Bear -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 9 Nordicity and the Sacred: The Journeys of Thomas York and Aritha van Herk -- The Fugitive -- The Spiritual Quest -- The Return to the South in Desireless -- No End to This Road: Aritha van Herk -- CHAPTER 10 Mutuality and the Sacred: Joy Kogawa -- From Divine Abandonment to Human Solidarity -- Bread and Stones and Names in Obasan -- From Silence to Communion -- Conclusion -- References -- Index. 
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