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100 1 $aDowning, Frederick L.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86069274
245 10 $aElie Wiesel :$ba religious biography /$cFrederick L. Downing.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aMacon, Ga. :$bMercer University Press,$c[2008], ©2008.
300 $axiv, 282 pages ;$c24 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [247]-278) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tIntroduction -- $gI.$tOrientation/Shattering -- $g2.$tSighet: A Small European Jerusalem -- $g3.$tA Refuge: Grandfather and His Stories -- $g4.$tBar Mitzvah and Approaching Tyranny -- $g5.$tThe Curse and the Crisis -- $g6.$tWrestling Like Jacob -- $gII.$tDisorientation/Evoking -- $g7.$tWriting Like Jeremiah: The Poetics of Memory and Justice -- $g8.$tFurther into Darkness: A Very Troubled Man -- $g9.$tWriting Like Jeremiah II: Evoking a New Universe -- $g10.$tThe Poetics of Grief: Choosing Between Life and Death -- $g11.$tA Town Beyond the Walls: Creating an Alternative Community Beyond Suffering and Pain -- $gIII.$tReorientation/Enacting -- $g12.$tThe Return: Re-envisioning God and Faith -- $g13.$tMan and Event: Becoming a Great Man in Israel -- $g14.$tRe-envisioning Faith and Tradition -- $g15.$tA Poet/Prophet for the Nations: The Quest for a Universalizing Faith -- $g16.$tConclusion.
520 1 $a"Elie Wiesel: I Religious Biography argues that Wiesel's religious faith is the driving force behind Wiesel's status as a moral authority - that he is essentially a generative religious personality, a poet-prophet - who deepened his own particular Jewish vision to eventually become a "link" with humanity. In time, he begins to identify with the world's oppressed through a stance of universalizing faith, As a religious genius and spiritual innovator of the Postmodern era, Wiesel is a conflicted individual who joins his own personal and existential struggle for meaning and identity with the quest of the oppressed after the Holocaust." "Through a social-scientific methodology similar to that of Erikson and Fowler, one sees Wiesel as a genuine "homo religiosus" in quest of a universalizing perspective. Likewise through the work of Walter Brueggemann on the "poet-prophet," Wiesel's literary code is described as that of Jeremiah: "shattering," "evoking," and "enacting."" "Indeed, Wiesel has followed the code of Jeremiah ben Hilkiah. Wiesel's early writing "shattered" the Western conception of normalcy. His work "evoked" a world that a later generation could not imagine, yet lie eventually began to "evoke" a new way of being religious in the postmodern world. The final aspect of his "poetics" is his praxis orientation of "enacting" - the living out of his faith - that has pushed him to travel to the jungles and ghettoes of the world to identify with the oppressed the world over. An encounter with Wiesel presents the possibility that the world has now become Jewish, in Wiesel's terms, and now solidarity must be extended to oppressed.persons everywhere."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aWiesel, Elie,$d1928-2016$xReligion.
650 0 $aAuthors, French$y20th century$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007100556
650 0 $aJewish authors$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008122294
650 0 $aHolocaust survivors$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105720
852 00 $bbar$hPQ2683.I32$iZ656 2008