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The Palm at the End of the Mind

Relatedness, Religiosity, and the Real [Paperback]

by Michael Jackson

    • Author

      Michael Jackson

    • Book Format

      Paperback

    • Publisher

      Duke University Press

    • Published

      February 2009

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      In many societies, and for many people, religiosity is only incidentally connected with texts or theologies, church or mosque, temple or monastery. Drawing on a lifetime's ethnographic work among people for whom religion is not principally a matter of faith, doctrine, or definition, Michael Jackson turns his attention to those situations in life where we come up against the limits of language, our strength, and our knowledge, yet are sometimes thrown open to new ways of understanding our being-in-the-world, new ways of connecting with others. Through sixty-one beautifully crafted essays based on sojourns in Europe, West Africa, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand, and taking his cue from Wallace Stevens' late poem, "Of Mere Being", Jackson explores a range of experiences where 'the palm at the end of the mind' stands 'beyond thought', on 'the edge of space', 'a foreign song'.Moments of crisis as well as everyday experiences in cafes, airports, and offices disclose the subtle ways in which a single life shades into others, the boundaries between cultures become blurred, fate unfolds through genealogical time, elective affinities make their appearance, and different values contend.

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      • Author

        Michael Jackson

      • Book Format

        Paperback

      • Publisher

        Duke University Press

      • Published

        February 2009

      • Weight

        430g

      • Page Count

        256

      • Dimensions

        155 x 232 x 18 mm

      • ISBN

        9780822343813

      • ISBN-10

        0822343819

      • Eden Code

        3867043

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      • Author/Creator: Michael Jackson

      • ISBN: 9780822343813

      • Publisher: Duke University Press

      • Release Date: February 2009

      • Weight: 430g

      • Dimensions: 155 x 232 x 18 mm

      • Eden Code: 3867043


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