Imagining Our Neighbors as Ourselves - McCampbell, Mary W.
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"In this book, Mary W. McCampbell looks at how narrative art--whether literature, film, television, or popular music--expands our imaginations and, in so doing, emboldens our ability to love our neighbors as ourselves. The prophetic artists in these pages--Graham Greene, Toni Morrison, and Flannery O'Connor among them--show through the form and content of their narrative craft that in order to love, we must be able to effectively imagine the lives of others. But even through we have these rich opportunities to grow emotionally and spiritually, we have been culturally trained as consumers to…mehr

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"In this book, Mary W. McCampbell looks at how narrative art--whether literature, film, television, or popular music--expands our imaginations and, in so doing, emboldens our ability to love our neighbors as ourselves. The prophetic artists in these pages--Graham Greene, Toni Morrison, and Flannery O'Connor among them--show through the form and content of their narrative craft that in order to love, we must be able to effectively imagine the lives of others. But even through we have these rich opportunities to grow emotionally and spiritually, we have been culturally trained as consumers to treat our reading, watching, and listening as mere acts of consumption." -- Book jacket.
Autorenporträt
Mary W. McCampbell is associate professor of humanities at Lee University, where she regularly teaches courses on contemporary fiction, film, popular culture, and modernism. A native Tennessean, she completed her doctorate at the University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne (UK). She is the author of pieces in Spiritual Identities: Literature and the Post-Secular Imagination, Sacred and Immoral: On the Writings of Chuck Palahniuk, The Modern Humanities Research Association's Yearbook of English Studies, Image, The Other Journal, Relevant, Christianity Today, and The Curator. McCampbell was the Summer 2014 Writer-in-Residence at L'Abri Fellowship in Greatham, England, and a 2018 Winter/Spring Scholar-in-Residence at Regent Theological College in Vancouver, British Columbia.