"This book explores the much debated relation of language and bodily experience (i.e. the 'flesh'), considering in particular how poetry functions as revelatory discourse and thus relates to the formal horizon of theological inquiry. The central thematic focus is around a 'pheno…
This book explores the much debated relation of language and bodily experience (i.e. the'flesh'), considering in particular how poetry functions as revelatory discourse and thus relates to the formal horizon of theological inquiry. The central thematic focus is around a'phenomen…
This book explores the much debated relation of language and bodily experience (i.e. the'flesh'), considering in particular how poetry functions as revelatory discourse and thus relates to the formal horizon of theological inquiry. The central thematic focus is around a'phenomen…
This study addresses a vital form of the religious expressive experience: madih nabawi (poetry in praise of Prophet Muhammad). It is an intensive examination and analysis of the roles madih poetry plays in the lives of two northern Sudanese riverain communities; the Bidairiyyah …
Religious poetry has often been regarded as minor poetry and dismissed in large part because poetry is taken to require direct experience; whereas religious poetry is taken to be based on faith, that is, on second or third hand experience. The best methods of thinking about "exp…
Religious poetry has often been regarded as minor poetry and dismissed in large part because poetry is taken to require direct experience; whereas religious poetry is taken to be based on faith, that is, second- or third-hand experience. This book proposes that the best tools fo…