{"product_id":"playful-wisdom-robert-leigh-davis-9781793626301","title":"Playful Wisdom: Reimagining the Sacred in American Literature, from Walden to Gilead","description":"\u003cp\u003ePlayful Wisdom examines how Henry David Thoreau's thinking about religious \"play\" created a theological legacy in American literature--one that includes Emily Dickinson, Jack Kerouac, Thomas Merton, Annie Dillard, and Marilynne Robinson. Although these writers differ in many ways, they share with Thoreau an improvisational \"looseness\" or \"mobility\" in their thinking about the sacred, a sense that religious experience unsettles fixed belief and alters the very shape of the perceiving self. From this perspective, Robert Leigh Davis argues, unswerving orthodoxy is not as crucial to a life of faith as a light-handed responsiveness of spirit that constantly revises fixed assumptions in light of new experiences. Dickinson describes this responsiveness as \"nimble believing\" and Thoreau calls it \"holy play.\" Scholars of literature, religion, and philosophy will find this book particularly useful.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Leigh Davis\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1793626308\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781793626301\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Lexington Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/24\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 252\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.82lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.57d","brand":"Robert Leigh Davis","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44078234206463,"sku":"9781793626301","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_2442add5-4297-4e41-b32b-103850a80031.jpg?v=1685474316","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/playful-wisdom-robert-leigh-davis-9781793626301","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}