Earthquakes and Gardens: Saint Hilarion's Cyprus (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780226823225)

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.

Author: Virginia Burrus
ISBN-10: 0226823229
ISBN-13: 9780226823225
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 02/19/2023
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d