Religion, Love, and Death: East & West

Comparative Reflections

Religion -> Death -> Love = a full circle

1. Theories of the Storied Self

Brockelman, Bruner, Foucault

Zhuangzi (Daoism), Sekida (Zen)

Augustine, Freud, and the Myth of the Knight and the Princess

2. Hidden Stories, Ruptured Narratives

Graham and secrets, Nelson and Narrative Repair

Campbell and relational remembering

3. Which self, which reality

Jacob's Ladder; Maura O'Halloran, Pure Heart, Enlightened Self

4. Stories of the Multicolored Self

Alice Walker, Color Purple; Etty Hillesum, An Interrupted LIfe

Robert Akeret, "Naomi: Dancer from the the Dance"