Paul E. Kerry

Light Beyond All Shadow: Religious Experience in Tolkien's Work

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What forms can religious experience take in a world without cult or creed? Organized religion is notably absent from J. R. R. Tolkien's Secondary Universe despite author's own Catholic faith. Contributors to Light beyond All Shadows probe both the mind of the maker and the world he made. These essays examine the full sweep of Tolkien's legendarium plus Peter Jackson's film trilogy. They propose that Tolkien's Catholic imagination was shaped by his iconography, its meditative techniques, and St. Philip Neri's 'Mediterranean' style of Catholicism. They identify Tolkien's Biblical typology and broader mythic resonances. They defend his work as n… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Miesel, Sandra

ISBN: 978-1-61147-010-9
EAN: 9781611470109
Produktnummer: 11309075
Verlag: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 220 S.
Masse: H23.1 cm x B15.7 cm x D2.3 cm 544 g
Gewicht: 544

Über den Autor

Paul E. Kerry is an associate professor of history at Brigham Young University, research associate at Corpus Christi College and visiting fellow at the Woolf Institute, Cambridge. Sandra Miesel holds mastersO degrees in biochemistry and medieval history from the University of Illinois. She is the co-author of The Da Vinci Hoax: Exposing the Errors in The Da Vinci Code and has written numerous articles for the Catholic press.