TY - BOOK AU - McCredden,Lyn TI - Luminous moments: the contemporary sacred SN - 9781921511967 (electronic bk.) AV - BL65.C8 M3654 2010 U1 - 201.7 22 PY - 2010/// CY - Hindmarsh, S. Aust. PB - ATF Press KW - Religion and culture KW - Religion in literature KW - Religion and literature KW - Australian literature KW - History and criticism KW - Sacred books KW - Sacred music KW - Spirituality KW - RELIGION / Sexuality & Gender Studies KW - bisacsh KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes index; Chapter One; Popular Cultures/Sacredness; Chapter Two; Postmodern Rituals:; Contemporary Australia Responds to Bali; Chapter Three; The Impossible Infinite:; Les Murray, Poetry, and the Sacred; Chapter Four; Tim Winton: Dirt Music and Dreams of Renewal; Chapter Five; Forms of Memory in Post-Colonial Australia; Chapter Six; Sacred Exchange: Peter Carey's Oscar and Lucinda; Chapter Seven; Contemporary Sacredness: The City Poetry of; Vincent Buckley and Sam Wagan Watson; Chapter Eight; 'Untranscended Life Itself':; The Poetry of Pam Brown; Chapter Nine; The Carnal Theologies of Nick Cave N2 - Luminous Moments is an idea, a way of seeing, an imaginative practice of openness to the everyday and the random. In the early twenty-first century, human beings seek new ways of constructing and comprehending ultimate meanings. For many, the revival of evolutionary thinking, along with the centenary of Darwin, is creating a new faith. Long live the prophets Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens! For others, the earth in all its beauty and its present agonies is where they seek to understand their existence. The institutions of church, mosque, temple or shrine still hold out the promise of UR - http://www.ebookscorporation.com UR - http://public.eblib.com/EBLPublic/PublicView.do?ptiID=631140 UR - http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=421294 ER -