Author: Magnus Ankarsjö
Publisher: McFarland
ISBN: 0786455489
Size: 67.90 MB
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Category : Religion
Languages : en
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William Blake And Religion

by Magnus Ankarsjö, William Blake And Religion Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download William Blake And Religion books, Over the last ten years the field of Blake studies has profited from new discoveries about Blake’s life and work. This book examines the effect that Blake’s mother’s recently discovered Moravianism has had on our understanding of his poetry, and gives special attention to Moravianism and Swedenborgianism and their relation to his sexual politics. This is accomplished by a close reading of Blake’s poetry, which examines in detail the subjects of religion, sex, and the attempted colonization of Africa by a Swedenborgian utopian group.

Author: Robert Rix
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351872958
Size: 36.55 MB
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 192
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William Blake And The Cultures Of Radical Christianity

by Robert Rix, William Blake And The Cultures Of Radical Christianity Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download William Blake And The Cultures Of Radical Christianity books, This study traces the links between William Blake's ideas and radical Christian cultures in late eighteenth-century England. Drawing on a significant number of historical sources, Robert W. Rix examines how Blake and his contemporaries re-appropriated the sources they read within new cultural and political frameworks. By unravelling their strategies, the book opens up a new perspective on what has often been seen as Blake's individual and idiosyncratic ideas. We are also presented with the first comprehensive study of Blake's reception of Swedenborgianism. At the time Blake took an interest in Emanuel Swedenborg, the mystical and spiritual writings of the theosophist had become a platform for radical and revolutionary politics, as well as numerous heterodox practices, among his followers in England. Rix focuses on Swedenborgianism as a concrete and identifiable sub-culture from which a number of essential themes in Blake's works are reassessed. This book will appeal not only to Blake scholars, but to anyone studying the radical and sub- culture, religious, intellectual and cultural history of this period.

Author: Selina Kunz
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3640412311
Size: 22.51 MB
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Pages : 28
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William Blake S Idiosyncratic Beliefs And His Poetry

by Selina Kunz, William Blake S Idiosyncratic Beliefs And His Poetry Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download William Blake S Idiosyncratic Beliefs And His Poetry books, Seminar paper from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 2,0, University of Trier (Fachbereich II, Anglistik), course: Literature and Religion: From the Renaissance to Romanticism, language: English, abstract: The English poet and painter William Blake appears to be mysterious, mainly because his works are not easy to comprehend. His poems and books are full of religious and philosophical questions and metaphors, some of his works are even accompanied by paintings which make his legacy even more complex. Blake lived in revolutionary times. The era can be characterised as a time of big upheavals and major changes in society. Reasons for this are the French and the American Revolution which had an influence on writers of the early Romantic period. Furthermore the first signs of industrialisation in the late 18th century showed the need for political reforms. A connection between the events in France and the apocalyptic prophecies in the bible was drawn - a belief in a universal peace, similar to the promise of paradise following this apocalypse in the bible. When this hope was not satisfied, thinkers did not abandon it, but started a quiet, moralistic revolution. In Blake's work, both the social criticism and the religious aspect can clearly be found. This paper wants to find out about William Blake's (religious) beliefs which are often seen as idiosyncratic. It tries to explain the most significant influences on Blake and his writing by illustrating his relationship with the Church of his time, the ideas of the Deist movement and the influence of the mystic Emanuel Swedenborg. Afterwards it will describe the influences of religion on the well-known volumes of poetry "Songs of Innocence" and "Songs of Experience" by commenting on exemplary poems of both volumes.

Author: Jennifer Jesse
Publisher: Lexington Books
ISBN: 0739177915
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 312
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William Blake S Religious Vision

by Jennifer Jesse, William Blake S Religious Vision Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download William Blake S Religious Vision books, Analyzing Blake’s works theologically through a wide-angled lens that encompasses the major religious movements he addressed in his art, Jesse concludes Blake was a theological moderate who defended an evangelical faith akin to the Methodism of John Wesley. She argues that, once we collate the different messages he constructed for each of his target audiences, we find him advocating a system that would have been recognized by his contemporaries as Wesleyan in character.

Author: M. Farrell
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137455500
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 259
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Blake And The Methodists

by M. Farrell, Blake And The Methodists Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Blake And The Methodists books, Exploring the work of William Blake within the context of Methodism – the largest 'dissenting' religious group during his lifetime – this book contributes to ongoing critical debates surrounding Blake's religious affinities by suggesting that, contrary to previous thinking, Blake held sympathies with certain aspects of Methodism.

Author: Charles Taylor
Publisher: Suhrkamp Verlag
ISBN: 3518740407
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Category : Philosophy
Languages : de
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Ein S Kulares Zeitalter

by Charles Taylor, Ein S Kulares Zeitalter Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Ein S Kulares Zeitalter books, Was heißt es, daß wir heute in einem säkularen Zeitalter leben? Was ist geschehen zwischen 1500 – als Gott noch seinen festen Platz im naturwissenschaftlichen Kosmos, im gesellschaftlichen Gefüge und im Alltag der Menschen hatte – und heute, da der Glaube an Gott, jedenfalls in der westlichen Welt, nur noch eine Option unter vielen ist? Um diesen Wandel zu bestimmen und in seinen Folgen für die gegenwärtige Gesellschaft auszuloten, muß die große Geschichte der Säkularisierung in der nordatlantischen Welt von der frühen Neuzeit bis in die Gegenwart erzählt werden – ein herkulisches Unterfangen, dem sich der kanadische Philosoph Charles Taylor in seinem mit Spannung erwarteten neuen Buch stellt. Mit einem Fokus auf dem »lateinischen Christentum«, dem vorherrschenden Glauben in Europa, rekonstruiert er in geradezu verschwenderischem Detail die entscheidenden Entwicklungslinien in den Naturwissenschaften, der Philosophie, der Staats- und Rechtstheorie und in den Künsten. Dem berühmten Diktum von der wissenschaftlich-technischen »Entzauberung der Welt« und anderen eingeschliffenen Säkularisierungstheorien setzt er die These entgegen, daß es die Religion selbst war, die das Säkulare hervorgebracht hat, und entfaltet eine komplexe Mentalitätsgeschichte des modernen Subjekts, das heute im Niemandsland zwischen Glauben und Atheismus gefangen ist.

Author: Kathleen Raine
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136663940
Size: 63.14 MB
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 190
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Blake And The New Age Routledge Revivals

by Kathleen Raine, Blake And The New Age Routledge Revivals Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Blake And The New Age Routledge Revivals books, First published in 1979, this is a very welcome reissue of Kathleen Raine's seminal study of William Blake - England’s only prophet. He challenged with extraordinary vigour the premises which now underline much of Western civilization, hitting hard at the ideas of a naive materialist philosophy which, even in his own day, was already eating at the roots of English national life. In his insistence that ‘mental things are alone real’, Blake was ahead of his time. Materialist views are now challenged from various quarters; the depth psychologies of Freud and Jung, the study of Far Easter religion and philosophy, the reappraisal of myth and folk lore, the wealth of psychical research have all prepared the way for an understanding of Blake’s thought. We are ready to acknowledge that in attacking ‘the sickness of Albion’ Blake penetrated to the inner worlds of man and explored them in a way that is quite unique. Dr Raine, who has made a long study of Blake’s sources, presents him as a lonely powerful genius who stands within the spiritual tradition of Sophia Perennis, ‘the Everlasting Gospel’. From the standpoint of this great human Norm, our immediate past described by W.B. Yeats as ‘the three provincial centuries’, is a tragic deviation; catastrophic, as Blake believed, in its spiritual and material consequences. Only now do we possess the necessary knowledge to understand William Blake and the ever-growing number of people who turn to him surely justifies his faith in the eternal truths he strove to communicate.

Author: Steffen Laaß
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3640146751
Size: 27.59 MB
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Pages : 40
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William Blake A Literary Figure To Approach Religion

by Steffen Laaß, William Blake A Literary Figure To Approach Religion Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download William Blake A Literary Figure To Approach Religion books, Seminar paper from the year 2004 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg, 13 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: "We have war, injustice, and unhappiness because our way of life is founded on mistaken beliefs." This quotation by William Blake set me thinking and distracted me from my actual project: I wanted to write an essay on a poem. But during my work I, fortunately, ended up in a chaos of philosophical questions: Who are we? Where do we come from? Is our universe only a dust particle of something larger? Is there a force guiding us? Who or what is God? From time immemorial, people have been racking their brains over these ageless and puzzling questions, and I doubt whether we are able to provide convincing responses to them. Someone who might give us a wise answer is William Blake (1757-1827). He is considered to be the first major Romantic poet, and a central theme of his works is religion (e.g. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, The Book of Urizen). Admittedly, there is no easy access to Blake because he is one of the most obscure and inscrutable poets. Nevertheless, I would like to make the daring attempt to uncover the secrets of Blake's religious mysticism. For this reason, I will discuss one of his first works There Is No Natural Religion (1788). My design is to make this essay accessible to a wide readership, especially to those who have so far avoided profoundly dealing with a particular topic: religion. I also had no serious interest in religion at all - until I started to learn Arabic. Once you have mastered "Allah's difficult but most ornate language," you have got a completely different outlook on the world. Beside this, I felt an urgent personal need to deal with the concept of faith in greater detail. This has in part something to do with the changing idea and role of religion in the 21st century. Unfortunately, a number of armed conflicts have be

Author: Rahl Bellin
Publisher: Chrysalis Books
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 157
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Blake And Swedenborg Opposition Is True Friendship

by Rahl Bellin, Blake And Swedenborg Opposition Is True Friendship Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Blake And Swedenborg Opposition Is True Friendship books, A new anthology drawing upon a variety of academic, literary and historical works to reveal the sources and meanings of Blake's visionary arts in the writings of the 18th century scientist-theologian, Emanuel Swedenborg.

Author: Yaroslav Levchenko
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
ISBN: 3640584503
Size: 62.86 MB
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Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 6
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Religious Symbolism In William Blake S Songs Of Innocence And Of Experience

by Yaroslav Levchenko, Religious Symbolism In William Blake S Songs Of Innocence And Of Experience Books available in PDF, EPUB, Mobi Format. Download Religious Symbolism In William Blake S Songs Of Innocence And Of Experience books, Research Paper (postgraduate) from the year 2009 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 10, Luhansk Taras Shevchenko National University, language: English, abstract: The poetry as well as the whole art of William Blake is abundant with symbols and allegories that carry a strong charge – inspirational, charismatic and religious. It is the result of numerous factors including the peculiarity of Blake’s epoch, the city he was born, raised and lived in, the traditions of his family, and, of course, his personal features that are imprinted on every line of his writings and every engraving or picture he created. Moreover, he was the first poet after Edmund Spenser who produced his own mythological reality [1, 192], which proves the power of his imagination and creative potential. In his childhood and youth, William Blake was surrounded and impacted by objects, phenomena and people that were of pronounced symbolic character – his Dissenter origin, Bible study, visions and revelations that visited him throughout all his life, work in Westminster Abbey [1, 74] – and they could not but be incorporated in his masterpieces. If we add here interest in and adherence to Emmanuel Svedenborg and Jacob Boehme [2, xxi], the background of his symbolism may become more or less clear.