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The longing for home / edited by Leroy S. Rouner.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Boston University studies in philosophy and religion ; v. 17.Publication details: Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c1996.Description: xvii, 268 p. ;268 24 cmISBN:
  • 0268013101 (alk. paper)
  • 9780268013103 (alk. paper)
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Online version:: Longing for home.DDC classification:
  • 128 ROUL
LOC classification:
  • B105.P53 L66 1996
Contents:
Longing for home / Elie Wiesel -- Of dwelling and wayfaring: a quest for metaphors / Erazim Kohák -- The only Henniker on Earth / Werner Gundersheimer -- The longing for home / Frederick Buechner -- Home is where we've never been: experience and transcendence / Leroy S. Rouner -- Are we at home in the world? / Rémi Brague -- Places of experience and the experience of place / Katherine Platt -- The man who committed adultery with his own wife / Wendy Doniger -- Home and Zakhor, remember! / Alfred I. Tauber -- Shekinah: the home of the homeless God / Jürgen Moltmann -- Dwellers, migrants, nomads: home in the age of the refugee / Edith Wyschogrod -- Hospitality: home as the integration of privacy and community / Rosemary L. Haughton -- Ecofeminism and the longing for home / Karen J. Warren -- The Indian diaspora and its conception of home / Bhikhu Parekh -- The terror of land loss, the dream of finding home / Martin E. Marty.
Summary: The authors of The Longing for Home explore the notion that home is both a place and a condition of the spirit. While a person may have a place that is home, he or she may also be nostalgic for an inner spiritual home, which beckons even as it lies beyond the human grasp.
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Longing for home / Elie Wiesel -- Of dwelling and wayfaring: a quest for metaphors / Erazim Kohák -- The only Henniker on Earth / Werner Gundersheimer -- The longing for home / Frederick Buechner -- Home is where we've never been: experience and transcendence / Leroy S. Rouner -- Are we at home in the world? / Rémi Brague -- Places of experience and the experience of place / Katherine Platt -- The man who committed adultery with his own wife / Wendy Doniger -- Home and Zakhor, remember! / Alfred I. Tauber -- Shekinah: the home of the homeless God / Jürgen Moltmann -- Dwellers, migrants, nomads: home in the age of the refugee / Edith Wyschogrod -- Hospitality: home as the integration of privacy and community / Rosemary L. Haughton -- Ecofeminism and the longing for home / Karen J. Warren -- The Indian diaspora and its conception of home / Bhikhu Parekh -- The terror of land loss, the dream of finding home / Martin E. Marty.

The authors of The Longing for Home explore the notion that home is both a place and a condition of the spirit. While a person may have a place that is home, he or she may also be nostalgic for an inner spiritual home, which beckons even as it lies beyond the human grasp.

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