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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Kotrosits, Maia
• Taussig, Hal,

Titel

Re-reading the Gospel of Mark Amidst Loss and Trauma [electronic resource]

Auflage

1st ed. 2013

Ort / Verlag

New York : Palgrave Macmillan US

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Description based upon print version of record.
• Includes bibliographical references (pages [183]-184) and index.
• Mark's trauma-filled ending -- Mark's carefully crafted story -- Blood relations : pain and the social body -- National brokenness and belonging -- Brightness and repair in the face of poverty -- When the inner circle collapses : family and betrayal -- Disillusionment and the allure of destruction -- Visions of the end -- Suspense, wonder, and indirect addresses to loss -- Following Mark's Jesus toward provisional selfhood.
• Examining contemporary films, sculptures, and graphic novels influenced by the Gospel of Mark, Hal Taussig and Maia Kotrosits break new ground in ways of understanding traditional religious texts. The authors avoid traditional dogmatic assumptions, and use the Gospel of Mark as a resource for coping and healing.