Religion and Revolution: Spiritual and Political Islam in Ernesto Cardenal

Religion and Revolution: Spiritual and Political Islam in Ernesto Cardenal
ISBN-10
1443837679
ISBN-13
9781443837675
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
339
Language
English
Published
2012
Publisher
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Author
John Andrew Morrow

Description

Religion and Revolution provides a comprehensive study of spiritual and political IslÄm in Ernesto Cardenal, the great Latin American poet, priest, and revolutionary. The work studies the relationship between Thomas Merton and á¢Å«fism, Cardenal's connection to spiritual IslÄm, as well as the á¢Å«fÄ« sources cited in his Cosmic Canticle. The work equally examines the impact of political IslÄm on his ideology, focusing particularly on his trip to Iran during the very triumph of the IslÄmic Revolution. Using Cardenal's "Interlude of the Revolution in Iran" as a starting point, the work provides a vivid and detailed description of the early days of the revolution as well as the ties between the IslÄmic Republic of Iran and the Latin American left.

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