The Sacred Desert: Religion, Literature, Art, and Culture

The Sacred Desert is a reflection on the role of the desert in theology, history, literature, art and film.

• An original reflection on the role of the desert in theology, history, literature, art and film.
  
• Discusses figures as diverse as Jesus, the early Christian Desert Fathers, T.E. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot, Georgia O'Keeffe, Wim Wenders and Jim Crace.
  
• Makes connections across millennia of desert literature.
  
• Deepens the reader's understanding of the desert as a real place, as an interior space, and as a textual site,
  
• Concludes with comments on the recent conflicts in Iraq.
  
• Written in a readable and engaging style.

Author: David Jasper
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 06/18/2004
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.28h x 6.20w x 0.72d
ISBN: 9781405119740

About the Author
David Jasper is Professor of Literature and Theology at the University of Glasgow, and was the founding editor of the journal, Literature and Theology. He is the author of The Sacred and Secular Canon in Romanticism (1999) and co-editor of The Bible and Literature: A Reader (edited with Stephen Prickett, Blackwell Publishing, 1999) and Religion and Literature: A Reader (edited with Robert Detweiler, 2000).