Reproaching the Divine: Poetic Theologies of Protest as a Resource for Expanding the Philosophy of Religion
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- Author or attribution
- Mikel Burley
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- Language
- English
- Date / edition
- 2021
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- Oxford University Press for the American Academy of Religion; White Rose Research Online repository
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- Open access
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- Kali Ma Additional Sources; Academic Research and Peer-Reviewed Articles; Philosophy, Theology, and Comparative Religion; Bengali Kali Literature
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Burley compares the poetry of Ramprasad Sen and R. S. Thomas to argue for a broader philosophy of religion attentive to devotional protest. Rather than treating reproach of a deity as a simple rejection of faith, the article examines how accusation, dependence, doubt, and devotion coexist. Its substantial Ramprasad section explores Kali’s maternal and frightening dimensions and the poet’s complaints about poverty, suffering, and apparent divine indifference. It also explains why attribution requires caution: the corpus associated with Ramprasad developed through oral circulation, variant versions, and later edited collections, and cannot automatically be assigned to a single historical author. The study is useful both as modern interpretation and as a bibliographic route into Bengali devotional scholarship. Its comparative framework should be distinguished from the primary poems themselves, and the article does not settle their individual textual histories. The repository supplies the complete published article, including references, allowing readers to follow its arguments and citations without payment. Reuse is governed by the stated Creative Commons attribution license.
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Reproaching the Divine: Poetic Theologies of Protest as a Resource for Expanding the Philosophy of Religion
English title: Reproaching the Divine: Poetic Theologies of Protest as a Resource for Expanding the Philosophy of Religion
Author / attribution: Mikel Burley
Publication: 2021
Publisher / repository: Oxford University Press for the American Academy of Religion; White Rose Research Online repository
Edition details: Journal of the American Academy of Religion 89(4), December 2021, pp.1229–1255; advance publication 8 December 2021
Language: English
Type: Peer-reviewed scholarly article
Subjects: Academic Research and Peer-Reviewed Articles; Philosophy, Theology, and Comparative Religion; Bengali Kali Literature
Burley compares the poetry of Ramprasad Sen and R. S. Thomas to argue for a broader philosophy of religion attentive to devotional protest. Rather than treating reproach of a deity as a simple rejection of faith, the article examines how accusation, dependence, doubt, and devotion coexist. Its substantial Ramprasad section explores Kali’s maternal and frightening dimensions and the poet’s complaints about poverty, suffering, and apparent divine indifference. It also explains why attribution requires caution: the corpus associated with Ramprasad developed through oral circulation, variant versions, and later edited collections, and cannot automatically be assigned to a single historical author. The study is useful both as modern interpretation and as a bibliographic route into Bengali devotional scholarship. Its comparative framework should be distinguished from the primary poems themselves, and the article does not settle their individual textual histories. The repository supplies the complete published article, including references, allowing readers to follow its arguments and citations without payment. Reuse is governed by the stated Creative Commons attribution license.
Kali relevance: Directly concerns Kali devotion and its interpretation.
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Composition date: Modern comparative scholarship on eighteenth-century Bengali devotion and twentieth-century Welsh poetry
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Mikel Burley. Reproaching the Divine: Poetic Theologies of Protest as a Resource for Expanding the Philosophy of Religion. Oxford University Press for the American Academy of Religion; White Rose Research Online repository. 2021.
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