The longing for home / 
edited by Leroy S. Rouner. 
 - Notre Dame, Ind. :  University of Notre Dame Press,  c1996. 
 - xvii, 268 p. ;268  24 cm. 
 - Boston University studies in philosophy and religion ;  v. 17 .
 - Boston University studies in philosophy and religion ;  v. 17. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0268013101 (alk. paper) 9780268013103 (alk. paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>96030449 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Home.<br/>Home--Religious aspects.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>B105.P53  / L66 1996 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>128 ROUL