The Art of Anatheism

Contents

Introduction: Who Do You Speak From?

Part I: Anatheism and Theopoetics

1 God Making: Theopoetics and Anatheism

2 Theopoetics: A Becoming History

3 Theology, Poetry, and Theopoetics

4 Cracked: The Black Theology of Anatheism

Part II: Painting Anatheism

5 Anatheism and Judeo-Christian Art

6 Paradise Gardens and the Anatheism of Art

7 The Everyday Art of Theopoiesis: Good-for-Nothing Slaves

8 One-Hand Clapping: Anatheism and Contemporary Buddhist Art

9 The Annunciate and the Self-Deconstruction of Mon-a-theism

Part III: Performing Anatheism

10 Sacred Songsters: Anatheist Themes in Dylan, The Beatles, Cohen, and U2

11 More Fully to the Risk: Hip-Hop as Anatheistic Resistance

12 Performing Anatheism: Dialogic Hospitality in Syriac Liturgical Poetry

13 American Anatheism: The Art of Narrative Healing

14 Materiality and the Sacred in Anatheism

Part IV: Screening Anatheism

15 The God of the Lost Ones: Anatheism in Three Contemporary Films

16 After God: Screening The Passion as Ana-Liturgy

17 The Still Born God, Again: Overcoming the Aporia of Anatheopoetics

Part V: Writing Anatheism

18 Marilynne Robinson and Anatheism

19 Anatheism and a New Apocalyptic Poetics

20 Anatheism for One

List of Contributors

Bibliography

Index