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1	`Can't nothing heal without pain' : healing in Toni Morrison's Beloved Du Plooy, Belinda 31 January 2004 (has links) Toni Morrison reinterprets and reconstitutes American history by placing the lives, stories and experiences of African Americans in a position of centrality, while relegating white American history and cultural traditions to the margins of her narratives. She rewrites American history from an alternative - African American woman's - perspective, and subverts the accepted racist and patriarchally inspired `truths' about life, love and women's experiences through her sympathetic depiction of murderous mother love and complex female relationships in Beloved. She writes about oppression, pain and suffering, and of the need for the acknowledgement and alleviation of the various forms of oppression that scar human existence. Morrison's engagement with healing in Beloved forms the central focus of this short dissertation. The novel is analysed in relation to Mary Douglas's `Two Bodies' theory, John Caputo's ideas on progressive Foucaultian hermeneutics and healing gestures, and Julia Martin's thoughts on alternative healing practices based on non-dualism and interconnectedness. Within this interdisciplinary context, Beloved is read as a `small start' to `creative engagement' with alternative healing practices (Martin, 1996:104). / English / M.A. (English) Healing American chattel slavery Historical embodiment Healing practices Maternal infanticide Non-dualism Foucaultian hermeneutics Two Bodies Mary Douglas John Caputo Michel Foucault Toni Morrison Beloved 813.54 Morrison, Toni -- Beloved Douglas, Mary Healing in literature
2	`Can't nothing heal without pain' : healing in Toni Morrison's Beloved Du Plooy, Belinda 31 January 2004 (has links) Toni Morrison reinterprets and reconstitutes American history by placing the lives, stories and experiences of African Americans in a position of centrality, while relegating white American history and cultural traditions to the margins of her narratives. She rewrites American history from an alternative - African American woman's - perspective, and subverts the accepted racist and patriarchally inspired `truths' about life, love and women's experiences through her sympathetic depiction of murderous mother love and complex female relationships in Beloved. She writes about oppression, pain and suffering, and of the need for the acknowledgement and alleviation of the various forms of oppression that scar human existence. Morrison's engagement with healing in Beloved forms the central focus of this short dissertation. The novel is analysed in relation to Mary Douglas's `Two Bodies' theory, John Caputo's ideas on progressive Foucaultian hermeneutics and healing gestures, and Julia Martin's thoughts on alternative healing practices based on non-dualism and interconnectedness. Within this interdisciplinary context, Beloved is read as a `small start' to `creative engagement' with alternative healing practices (Martin, 1996:104). / English / M.A. (English) Healing American chattel slavery Historical embodiment Healing practices Maternal infanticide Non-dualism Foucaultian hermeneutics Two Bodies Mary Douglas John Caputo Michel Foucault Toni Morrison Beloved 813.54 Morrison, Toni -- Beloved Douglas, Mary Healing in literature
3	Exploring the ‘God after God’ conversations in relation to God’s absence and presence Victor, Timothy January 2019 (has links) Includes bibliographical references (leaves 145-149) / In this dissertation the author reflects on the absence and presence of God within Christianity. This is accomplished through engaging and seeking to understand key conversations following the Copernican Revolution and the-death-of God . The goal is to understand and model how it is that Christianity defines itself as a faith tied to knowing God and yet is appraised by many as a religion characterized by God's conspicuous silence, absence and death. These are 'God after God' conversations understood to include contributions from philosophers, Essentialists, and Christians following the-death-of God. With these 'God after God' conversations are tied to the institutional expression of Christianity and the diversification of and within religion during the modern era. It is with this in mind that the conjunction and disjunction between Christianity as religion, spirituality, and mysticism can perhaps enable a post-institutional expression of Christianity as the practice of the relational presence of God. / Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology / M. Th. (Christian Spirituality) Christian Spirituality Mysticism Anatheism Amnetheism Anamnetheism Worldviews Religious diversification Don Cupitt Richard Kearney John Caputo 231.4 God (Christianity) -- Omnipotence God (Christianity) -- Omnipresence Spirituality -- Christianity -- History Cupitt, Don Kearney, Richard Caputo, John D.

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