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An Ecofeminist Perspective on Ash Wednesday and Lent - 9781433107399

Un libro in lingua di Sweeney Sylvia A. edito da Peter Lang Pub Inc, 2009

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Sweeney (Bloy House, The Episcopal Theological School at Claremont, California) examines one unique day in the church's liturgical calendar, and how it came to find expression through the ages--the morning after Mardi Gras. Ash Wednesday has functioned in the history of the Christian Church as what David Tracy calls a religious classic, she contends, and the gesture of imposing ashes is itself a central and paradigmatic element of it. She begins by tracing the rite from its antecedents and origin through the Middle Ages and the Cranmerian influences in the Anglican tradition, to the Book of Common Prayer in 1979. Then she sets out ecofeminist hermeneutics of mortality and death. The final section presents a conversation between ecofeminism and Ash Wednesday. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

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