The Society for Ricoeur Studies is pleased to share three exciting announcements:
- New publication: Refiguring the Sacred: Conversations with Paul Ricoeur has been released as part of the Lexington Books series Studies in the Thought of Paul Ricoeur.
- Upcoming presentation: The book will be featured in a special panel session at our 18th Annual Meeting of the Society for Ricoeur Studies, October 24-27, 2024. Join us Friday morning, Oct. 25, to hear the editors and contributors discuss the book. (Details below)
- Special offer: Enjoy a 30% discount on both hardcover and ebook editions when ordering directly from Rowman & Littlefield. Use special discount code LXFANDF30 at checkout. (See discount flyer below).
Interested in exploring this new contribution to Ricoeur scholarship? Visit the Rowman & Littlefield website to learn more and order your copy.
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666919097/Refiguring-the-Sacred-Conversations-with-Paul-Ricoeur
Refiguring the Sacred
Special Discount Flyer
About the Book:
Refiguring the Sacred: Conversations with Paul Ricoeur, edited by Joseph A. Edelheit, James F. Moore, and Mark I. Wallace presents an opportunity for Ricoeur scholars to reflect and engage on Ricoeur’s religious ideas, nearly 20 years after his death. This collection uses the twenty-one papers collected by Mark I. Wallace in Paul Ricoeur’s Figuring the Sacred, translated by David Pellauer, as its primary resource. Contributions by several significant Ricoeur scholars prompt questions which initiate new conversations almost 30 years after its original publication. Ricoeur’s life-long engagement with texts illuminates his embrace of the sacred, as well as his significant thinking and writings on religious imagination, theology, the Bible, hope, and praxis—all ideas which require more reading and reflection in order to refigure of our understanding of Ricoeur. Wallace brings two additional essays that could not be included in his original collection and explains why they remain essential to our understanding of Ricoeur. Refiguring the Sacred demonstrates the foundational multidisciplinary scholarship inherent in the interfaith dialogues through which Paul Ricoeur embodied the Sacred.
See Table of Contents here:
https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781666919097/Refiguring-the-Sacred-Conversations-with-Paul-Ricoeur
About the Special Session
Friday, Oct. 25, 10:30 am (CDT) in-person and hybrid (Zoom)
This plenary session at the University of Chicago Divinity School will highlight the recent publication Refiguring the Sacred: Conversations with Paul Ricoeur (Lexington Press, 2024), edited by Joseph A. Edelheit, James F. Moore, and Mark I. Wallace. The volume complements the 1995 anthology Figuring the Sacred: Religion, Narrative, and Imagination (Fortress Press) that collected many of Ricoeur’s essays on religion and biblical hermeneutics in the 1970s-80s written during his years at the University of Chicago Divinity School. The new volume offers fresh perspectives on Ricoeur’s hermeneutical philosophy of religions and the enduring legacy of his approach and seeks to continue the conversation. The panel, featuring the book’s editors and contributors, will explore Ricoeur’s insights on religious language, biblical interpretation, and imagination, examining their relevance to contemporary issues of faith, praxis, meaning, interfaith dialogue, and experiences of evil and trauma. The session aims to stimulate discussions on Ricoeur’s interdisciplinary approach to religion and its significance for current debates in religious and philosophical studies. Panelists include Joseph A. Edelheit (St. Cloud State University), James F. Moore (Valparaiso University), Mark I. Wallace (Swarthmore College), Stephanie Arel (Fordham University), Steven Kepnes (Colgate University), Dan R. Stiver (Jesse C. Fletcher Seminary), George H. Taylor (University of Pittsburgh), and Timo Helenius (University of Turku, Finland).
