Causing Little Ones to Stumble: Paul Bailey and the Millstone of Religion

In Sugar Cane the novelist Paul Bailey describes what happens when someone is exposed at an impressionable age to religion in a brutally corrupt or merely stupid form and has to come to terms with that exposure: whether healing might be possible and what that healing might look like. Bailey suggests...

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Auteur principal: Hardy, Robert (Auteur)
Type de support: Électronique Article
Langue:Anglais
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Publié: Wiley-Blackwell 2017
Dans: New blackfriars
Année: 2017, Volume: 98, Numéro: 1076, Pages: 427-435
Sujets non-standardisés:B Sugar Cane
B Healing
B Irvin Yalom
B oppressive religion
B Paul Bailey
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Édition parallèle:Non-électronique
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Résumé:In Sugar Cane the novelist Paul Bailey describes what happens when someone is exposed at an impressionable age to religion in a brutally corrupt or merely stupid form and has to come to terms with that exposure: whether healing might be possible and what that healing might look like. Bailey suggests an alternative narrative, where, despite the suffering of his characters, the word ‘religion’ means more to him than it does to Irvin Yalom, who wrote of his belief after his own childhood exposure to the authoritarianism of his parents’ Jewish orthodoxy, that ‘faith, like so many other early irrational beliefs and fears, is a burden’.
ISSN:1741-2005
Contient:Enthalten in: New blackfriars
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1111/nbfr.1402