{"product_id":"the-sacred-desert-religion-literature-art-and-culture","title":"The Sacred Desert: Religion, Literature, Art, and Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook info:\u003c\/strong\u003e The Sacred Desert: Religion, Literature, Art, and Culture (Paperback, 231 pages) – *Wiley-Blackwell, 2004. Language: English.\u003c\/p\u003e\n \u003cp\u003eThe Sacred Desert is a reflection on the role of the desert in theology, history, literature, art and film.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAn original reflection on the role of the desert in theology, history, literature, art and film.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDiscusses figures as diverse as Jesus, the early Christian Desert Fathers, T.E. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot, Georgia O'Keeffe, Wim Wenders and Jim Crace.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eMakes connections across millennia of desert literature.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDeepens the reader's understanding of the desert as a real place, as an interior space, and as a textual site,\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eConcludes with comments on the recent conflicts in Iraq.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWritten in a readable and engaging style.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e  \n        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).      ","brand":"David Jasper","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46070538207466,"sku":"9781405119757","price":41.55,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0714\/5301\/6298\/files\/71dHSROA7lL._SL1500.jpg?v=1781268811","url":"https:\/\/textbookme.store\/products\/the-sacred-desert-religion-literature-art-and-culture","provider":"TextbookMe","version":"1.0","type":"link"}