Silence and its imaginary. A Book of Silence de Sara Maitland under interrogation

• Autor(a) principal: Araújo, Alberto Filipe Ribeiro de Abreu
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: García del Dujo, Ángel
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Horizonte - Revista de Estudos de Teologia e Ciências da Religião
• Texto Completo: http://periodicos.pucminas.br/index.php/horizonte/article/view/P.2175-5841.2018v16n49p257-298
• topic: Silence; Imaginary; Book of Silence; Sara Maitland; Spirituality; Religious studies; Silêncio; Imaginário; Livro do Silêncio; Sara Maitland; Espiritualidade; Ciências da Religião

The present study is based on the work by Sara Maitland entitled A Book of Silence and seeks to reflect on this theme in the line of high spirituality by crossing it with the figures of the imaginary that form the silence itself. To this end, we seek in the first part, devoted to silence, to understand the nature of silence in its manifestations, types and images, as it was thought and studied by Sara Maitland in her A Book of Silence. Then, in the second part, reflect on the meaning of this constellation of images to try to delineate the imaginary of silence. In the third part, taking into account the developments of the first and second parts, we will reflect on the trilogy of silence-imaginary-creativity. We will conclude with some reflections and questions raised by the analysis of the author’s work.