Literature & Spirituality | Richard Rodriguez, poet
Thursday, September 18, 2014 - 5:30pm to 6:30pm
Location:
Golden Center, St. Thomas More Chapel and Center at Yale
268 Park St
New Haven, CT 06511Richard Rodriguez: In Real Time
Lecture and reading followed by reception and book-signing.
Presented in collaboration with the Yale Divinity Student Book Supply, with support from the St. Thomas More Chapel and Center at Yale; additional support from Yale Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies; and Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Studies
Hailed in The Washington Post as “one of the most eloquent and probing public intellectuals in America,” Richard Rodriguez now considers religious violence worldwide, growing public atheism in the West, and his own mortality.
Rodriguez’s stylish new memoir—the first book in a decade from the Pulitzer Prize finalist—moves from Jerusalem to Silicon Valley, from Moses to Liberace, from Lance Armstrong to Mother Teresa. Rodriguez is a homosexual who writes with love of the religions of the desert that exclude him. He is a passionate, unorthodox Christian who is always mindful of his relationship to Judaism and Islam because of a shared belief in the God who revealed himself within an ecology of emptiness. And at the center of this book is a consideration of women—their importance to Rodriguez’s spiritual formation and their centrality to the future of the desert religions.
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