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Full-Text Articles in Arts and Humanities
The Family And Religion, Gordon Babst
The Family And Religion, Gordon Babst
Political Science Faculty Books and Book Chapters
This introduction focuses on religious beliefs in American families.
Rajasthan: Mirabai And Her Poetry, Nancy M. Martin
Rajasthan: Mirabai And Her Poetry, Nancy M. Martin
Religious Studies Faculty Books and Book Chapters
"Mirabai (born c. 1500) is among the most well-known and loved of the Hindu women saints devoted to Krishna. Her devotion to her Lord is absolute, as her life and songs attest. Her story is a romantic tale of star-crossed lovers—one human, the other divine—marked by perseverance and triumph in the midst of great suffering. Songs sung in her name speak of the joys and trials of the devotional life and evoke the full range of romantic love, from the devastating longing that marks separated lovers and the blazing anger of a woman betrayed to the sweet and intoxicating pleasures …
Review Of Paul Pfeiffer At Mc Kunst, Micol Hebron
Review Of Paul Pfeiffer At Mc Kunst, Micol Hebron
Art Faculty Articles and Research
This article focuses on Pfeiffer's "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" series as they explore notions of spectacle and spectatorship.
Scatology And The Sacred In Milton's Paradise Lost, Kent Lehnhof
Scatology And The Sacred In Milton's Paradise Lost, Kent Lehnhof
English Faculty Articles and Research
In his classic study, "The Dialectics of Creation," Michael Lieb foregrounds the myriad ways in which Milton uses scatology throughout "Paradise Lost" to describe the depravity of the devil. But Satan is not the only character in the epic to be associated with excretion. Milton's angels and Milton's God are also implicated in the operations of the lower bodily stratum. In these instances, however, allusions to the evacuative functions attest to an exalted divinity rather than a disgusting diabolism. Evacuation in "Paradise Lost" is thus a highly complex signifier. Not simply a pejorative pointing inevitably at a damnable degradation, scatology …