Locations of the Sacred: Essays on Religion, Literature, and Canadian CultureWhere do Canadians encounter religious meaning? Not where they used to! In ten lively and wide-ranging essays, William Closson James examines various derivations of the sacred in contemporary Canadian culture. Most of the essays focus on the religious aspects of modern Canadian English fiction — for example, in essays on the fiction of Hugh MacLennan, Morley Callaghan, Margaret Atwood and Joy Kogawa. But James also explores other, non-literary events and activities in which Canadians have found something transcendant or revelatory. Each of the chapters in Locations of the Sacred can be read independently as a discrete analysis of its subject. Taken as a whole, the essays make up a powerful argument for a new way of looking at the religious in contemporary Canada — not in the traditional ways of being religious, but in activities and locations previously thought to be “secular.” Thus, the domains and modes of the religious are expanded, not restricted. |
Contents
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The Protestant Voice | 19 |
The Human Ground of Transcendence | 39 |
CHAPTER 3 Nature as the Locale of the Sacred | 61 |
The Canoe Trip | 81 |
The Belcher Islands Massacre | 101 |
A M Klein and Hugh MacLennan | 131 |
The Ambiguities of Morley Callaghans Such Is My Beloved | 155 |
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