Spanning 15 centuries, this collection showcases the rich tapestry of Scottish religious poetry, featuring voices from various regions, including Gaelic contributions. It reflects Scotland's diverse and often tumultuous religious landscape, highlighting a distinctive spirituality. Selected and introduced by experts, this eagerly awaited follow-up to a successful 2000 edition presents a unique compilation of profound religious thought, appealing to enthusiasts of Scottish literature and culture.
Focusing on the interplay between biblical texts and literary analysis, this book examines how reading the Bible as literature and within literature can inform each other. It emphasizes the importance of an interdisciplinary approach, considering the diverse backgrounds, preconceptions, and scholarly theories from both literary and biblical studies. The exploration aims to deepen understanding of the Bible's literary qualities while also recognizing its cultural and historical significance.
A multi-layered memoir tackling issues of race, identity, and loss LAWRENCIA'S LAST PARANG: A MEMOIR ON LOSS AND BELONGING AS BLACK IN CANADA is a snapshot of the author's life immediately after the passing of her grandmother Lawrencia, the woman who raised her. Written in the style of patchwork quilt that takes the reader back and forth between the present and the past, she examines her grief from the perspective of a Canadian-born Black woman of Caribbean descent, and she begins to question her identity and what it means to be a Black Canadian in new ways. This means exploring her childhood in Trinidad and her adult life in Kingston, Ontario, a predominantly white city, her experience of raising a mixed-raced child, and the meaning of her interracial marriage. Simultaneously a memoir and a eulogy, the book offers an insightful exploration of race in Canada, one that complicates these issues through the lens of identity and loss, but also through a prism of privilege. Literary Nonfiction. African & African American Studies. Women's Studies.
These 14 essays by scholars who have worked with David Jasper in both church and academy develop original discussions of themes emerging from his writings on literature, theology and hermeneutics. The arts, institutions, literature and liturgy are among the subject areas they cover.
The Making of the FIFA World Cup takes you on the ultimate journey through World Cup history. Telling the stories of 75 of the competition's most memorable and shocking moments, you'll be left in no doubt why the World Cup is sport's most-watched event. The Making of... brings you the pure, unfiltered excitement of the World Cup - in book form.