There was an impulse to return the arts to their original sacred function in ritual, particularly in the theater.
reconcile the material and spiritual worlds, a union that had been fragmented by rational philosophy and empirical science. Russian creative intelligentsia saw art as a way to. Western scholarship has focused on the sources, structure, and style of the musical score, while it has demonstrated less understanding of the concept that motivated Igor Stravinsky and Nikolai Roerich. D.)-University of Washington, 1997 This study reexamines The Rite of Spring as a product of turn-of-the-century Russian culture. He is the author of several articles on the sociopolitical contexts of infectious disease and on the cultural phenomenology of suffering and violence. If read carefully and with due patience, Sacred Fire is one of those books that burns through the world, and leaves it changed.ĭon Seeman is assistant professor of anthropology at Emory University. Worch's translation and introductory essay are very good. The work will be of interest to scholars of religion as well as literary theorists and theorists of human emotion. Rabbi Shapira's wartime writing struggled to reframe the "problem of suffering" in phenomenological terms, as a quest for ritual efficacy rather than discursive "meaning" alone. Clearly, this is a book that will help to revise our view of Holocaust victims' inner lives, but that is not all. The Hebrew manuscript was recovered in 1960 but has only now been made available to readers in English. Its author, Kalonymos Shapira, was a Hasidic mystic and communal leader interned in the Warsaw Ghetto from 1939 until his deportation and murder in 1943. These are some of the themes that emerge in Sacred Fire, a collection of homiletic and interpretive essays thought to constitute the last work of traditional Jewish scholarship ever composed on Polish soil. A woman who "allows" herself to be broken by suffering sends a protest message to God about the nature of human frailty. God's pain would destroy the world were it not mediated by sacred textuality.
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