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11	Natural strange beatitudes : Geoffrey Hill's The Orchards of Syon, poetic oxymoron and post-secular poetics, and, An Atheist's Prayer-Book Wooding, Jonathan January 2015 (has links) Geoffrey Hill’s The Orchards of Syon (2002) occupies a contradictory position in twenty-first century poetry in being a major religious work in a post-religious age. Contemporary secular and atheistic insistence on the fundamentally crafted and flawed nature of religious faith has led Hill not to the abandoning of religious vision, but to a theologically disciplined approach to syntax, grammar and etymology. This dissertation examines Hill’s claim to a poetics of agnostic faith that mediate his alienation from a cynical and debased Anglophone contemporaneity. The oxymoronic nature of a faith co-existent with existential loss is the primary focus. The semantic distinction between paradox and poetic oxymoron is examined, and the agonistic and aporetic dimensions of the oxymoron are considered as affording theological significance. Poetic oxymoron as site of both foolish babbling and Pentecostal exuberance is made explicit, as is Hill’s relation to the oxymoronic nature of beatitudinous expression and the Kenotic Hymn. Hill’s reading of and relation to other theologically engaged poets is outlined. Thomas Hardy’s tragic-comic vision, Gerard Manley Hopkins’ restrained rapture in ‘The Windhover’, and T. S. Eliot’s expression of kenotic dissolution in ‘Marina’ are read as precursors to Hill’s revisionary God-language. William Empson’s significant difficulties with aspects of Hopkins’ and Eliot’s poetics is appraised as evidence of an oxymoronic and theological dimension within poetic ambiguity. Hill’s imperative to embody and enact theological vision and responsibility is tested in a reading of The Orchards of Syon. Paul Ricoeur’s perception of the religious significance of atheism is provocation for my own creative practice, as is the performative theology implicit in both Graham Shaw’s hermeneutic approach, and Hill’s visionary philology. Creative process draws on Simone Weil’s notion of decreation, the kenotic paradigm as exemplified in the life and writings of Dietrich Bonhoeffer, and the continuing secular vitality of the apostrophic lyric mode. 821.009
12	Representation av ateism och icke-tro i religionsundervisning / Representation of Atheism and Non-belief in Religious Education Hagstedt, Kaj January 2021 (has links) Sverige är ett sekulariserat land där stat och kyrka ej längre går hand i hand. I detta land ska skolors undervisning vara icke-konfessionell samtidigt som utbildningen ska vila på den tradition som förvaltats av kristen tradition. Religionsämnet är brett och ska enligt läroplanen omfatta religioner och andra livsåskådningar, med fokus på världsreligioner och etiska och moraliska frågeställningar kopplat till livsfrågor. Många i Sverige är icke-troende eller ateister, men ateism behandlas först i läroplanen för årskurs 7-9 och fördjupas senare i gymnasiet. Genom en kvalitativ studie har uppsatsen haft som syfte att undersöka representation av ateism i religionsundervisning årskurs 4-6, och empirin visar att lärare inte planerar för undervisning om ateism och att elever inte känner till begreppet. Vidare redogörs för lärares och elevers diskurs om religionsundervisning och om hur religiös positionering ses som resurs i undervisningen. Atheism non-confessional belief non-belief confessional curriculum secularization post-secular religion religious absence religious education RE representation Ateism icke-konfessionell tro icke-tro konfessionell läroplan sekularisering post-sekularisering religion religionsfrånvaro religionsundervisning representation Pedagogical Work Pedagogiskt arbete Religious Studies Religionsvetenskap
13	Philosophie und Literatur im post-sakularen Zeitalter - religiose Gewalt im zeitgenossischen Roman Holznienkemper, Alex 02 June 2014 (has links) No description available. American Literature Germanic Literature Literature Philosophy Juergen Habermas Charles Taylor Sherko Fatah John Updike Christoph Peters post-secular public sphere normativity terrorism religious fundamentalism communicative action strategic action public discourse
14	Mitchell's mandalas : mapping David Mitchell's textual universe Harris-Birtill, Rosemary January 2017 (has links) This study uses the Tibetan mandala, a Buddhist meditation aid and sacred artform, as a secular critical model by which to analyse the complete fictions of author David Mitchell. Discussing his novels, short stories and libretti, this study maps the author's fictions as an interconnected world-system whose re-evaluation of secular belief in galvanising compassionate ethical action is revealed by a critical comparison with the mandala's methods of world-building. Using the mandala as an interpretive tool to critique the author's Buddhist influences, this thesis reads the mandala as a metaphysical map, a fitting medium for mapping the author's ethical worldview. The introduction evaluates critical structures already suggested to describe the author's worlds, and introduces the mandala as an alternative which more fully addresses Mitchell's fictional terrain. Chapter I investigates the mandala's cartographic properties, mapping Mitchell's short stories as integral islandic narratives within his fictional world which, combined, re-evaluate the role of secular belief in galvanising positive ethical action. Chapter II discusses the Tibetan sand mandala in diaspora as a form of performance when created for unfamiliar audiences, reading its cross-cultural deployment in parallel with the regenerative approaches to tragedy in the author's libretti Wake and Sunken Garden. Chapter III identifies Mitchell's use of reincarnation as a form of non-linear temporality that advocates future-facing ethical action in the face of humanitarian crises, reading the reincarnated Marinus as a form of secular bodhisattva. Chapter IV deconstructs the mandala to address its theoretical limitations, identifying the panopticon as its sinister counterpart, and analysing its effects in number9dream. Chapter V shifts this study's use of the mandala from interpretive tool to emerging category, identifying the transferrable traits that form the emerging category of mandalic literature within other post-secular contemporary fictions, discussing works by Michael Ondaatje, Ali Smith, Yann Martel, Will Self, and Margaret Atwood.

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