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Earthquakes and Gardens: Saint Hilarion's Cyprus

by Virginia Burrus

  • Paperback
  • 208 pages
  • Publisher: University of Chicago Press
  • 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.2 cm

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Essays about ruination, resilience, reading, and religion generated by a reflection on a fourth-century hagiography. In Jerome's Life of Saint Hilarion, a fourth-century saint briefly encounters the ruins of an earthquake-toppled city and a haunted garden in Cyprus. From these two fragmentary passages, Virginia Burrus delivers a series of sweeping meditations on our experience of place and the more-than-human worlds--the earth and its gods--that surround us. Moving between the personal and geological, Earthquakes and Gardens ruminates on destruction and resilience, ruination and resurgence, grief and consolation in times of disaster and loss. Ultimately, Burrus's close readings reimagine religion as a practice that unsettles certainty and develops mutual flourishing.
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  • Title

    Earthquakes and Gardens: Saint Hilarion's Cyprus

  • Author

    Virginia Burrus

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    University of Chicago Press

  • Published

    February 2023

  • Weight

    310g

  • Page Count

    208

  • Dimensions

    15.2 x 22.9 x 1.2 cm

  • ISBN

    9780226824567

  • ISBN-10

    022682456X

  • Eden Code

    5706250

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