Ecotheology and Love - The Converging Poetics of Sohrab Sepehri and James Baldwin

In Ecotheology and Love: The Converging Poetics of Sohrab Sepehri and James Baldwin, Bahar Davary points to the interrelation of religion, poetry, and ecology from a comparative perspective with an emphasis on decoloniality. This work shows how authors Sohrab Seperhi and James Baldwin sought social justice by building their work on love and an authentic way of knowing the world based on an interconnected knowledge of the self. The layers of depth in Sepehri and Baldwin's works and their immediacy for our time has yet to be fully understood, but through Ecotheology and Love, Davary takes a significant step towards achieving such a fuller understanding.

List of contents

Chapter 1. Love: A Way of Knowing and Being in Islamic Contemplative Tradition
Chapter 2. Ecopoetics of a Persian Poet: Beyond Nature Poetry
Chapter 3. Ecotheology and Ecojustice: Beyond The Green Expanse
Chapter 4. Poetry, Politics, Social Justice, and Resistance

About the author

Bahar Davary is professor of religious studies and affiliate faculty of the Ethnic Studies and Asian Studies Departments at the University of San Diego. She is author of Women and the Qur’an: A Study in Islamic Hermeneutics.

Product details

• Authors: Bahar Davary, Bahar Davary, Davary Bahar
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 21.12.2024
• EAN: 9781793642783
• ISBN: 978-1-79364-278-3
• No. of pages: 182
• Series: Environment and Religion in Feminist-Womanist, Queer, and Indigenous Perspectives
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Middle Eastern, POETRY / Subjects & Themes / Love & Erotica, POETRY / Middle Eastern, Middle East, Literature: history & criticism, Literature: history and criticism, Narrative theme: love / relationships, Poetry / Poems