{"product_id":"9780889203679","title":"Locations of the Sacred: Essays on Religion, Literature and Canadian Culture","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eWhere do Canadians encounter religious meaning? Not where they used to!\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn ten lively and wide-ranging essays, William Closson James examines various derivations of the sacred in contemporary Canadian culture. Most of the essays focus on the religious aspects of modern Canadian English fiction — for example, in essays on the fiction of Hugh MacLennan, Morley Callaghan, Margaret Atwood and Joy Kogawa. But James also explores other, non-literary events and activities in which Canadians have found something transcendant or revelatory. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEach of the chapters in \u003ci\u003eLocations of the Sacred\u003c\/i\u003e can be read independently as a discrete analysis of its subject. Taken as a whole, the essays make up a powerful argument for a new way of looking at the religious in contemporary Canada — not in the traditional ways of being religious, but in activities and locations previously thought to be “secular.” Thus, the domains and modes of the religious are expanded, not restricted. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wilfrid Laurier University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47028021199088,"sku":"9780889203679","price":42.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780889203679_p0.jpg?v=1763851186","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780889203679","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}