Earthquakes and Gardens: Saint Hilarion�s Cyprus (Class 200: New Studies in Religion)

Virginia Burrus is the Bishop W. Earl Ledden professor of religion at Syracuse University. She is the author of many books, including Ancient Christian Ecopoetics: Cosmologies, Saints, Things.

Title: Earthquakes and Gardens: Saint Hilarion�s Cyprus (Class 200: New Studies in Religion)

Author: Burrus, Virginia

ISBN: 9780226824567

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Publisher: The University of Chicago Press

Publication Date: 2023-02-19

Number of Pages: 208

Weight: 0.3001 kg

This is a book about care. Burrus thinks with the reader about tenderness, fragility, loss, protectiveness, and the quiet fact of being alive in a place, and in so doing gives us a walled and green early Christian world that is deeply entwined with our own. It is a pure pleasure. -- Catherine Michael Chin, University of California, Davis
Quaking and flowering, this captivatingly beautiful book twists free of disciplinary inhibitors to perform a literary cartography of illimitable place. In its dazzling multidimensional collage, a startling spiritual geography unfolds. From the Greek island where she poignantly is not, through earth-bursts of the here and there, then and now, Burrus takes the reader on an unprecedented journey. -- Catherine Keller, Drew University
With agile imagination and lyrical prose, Burrus troubles how we do history. From the seismic eons of a tectonic earth to bits of Jerome laid out like poetry, Burrus reveals a world of destruction and regeneration on a mythic and literary Cyprus. Translating, fragmenting, recombining, and repurposing, Burrus composes chamber music, a small masterpiece. -- Derek Krueger, University of North Carolina at Greensboro