by Lynda Sexson (Author)
Ordinarily Sacred aims to illuminate the sacred quality of experience that on the surface appears mundane or secular. Through stories, metaphors, and images, the author claims, we discover the religious or the sacred in the activities of ordinary life - dreams, play, and memory. In these activites, the author suggests, we create texts, make meaning and imagine reality in such a way as to lend symbolic significance to life. She also suggests that through these activities, we define our relation to the divine, and to one another.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 134
Edition: New edition
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 30 Nov 1992
ISBN 10: 0813914167
ISBN 13: 9780813914169
Lynda Sexson offers a theology of everyday experience in this enchanting book that shows how religious traditions of the world lie slightly concealed in the details and commonplaces of ordinary life.
--Thomas Moore, author of Care of the SoulOrdinarily Sacred is an extraordinarily original book whose importance has yet to be fully recognized.
--Frederick Turner, University of Texas at DallasLynda Sexson, in this beautifully written book, brings us back to the first metaphysics of Western culture and to the understanding that the ground she is treading on is ours, our common way of making experience..which holds universally across cultures, literal, oral, scientific, popular.
--Antonio T. de Nicolas Journal of Social and Biological StructuresLynda Sexson is Associate Professor of Humanities at Montana State University. She is author of Margaret of the Imperfect: Stories.
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