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Religion and the Arts: History and Method
Häftad, 2017
1214 kr
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In Religion and the Arts: History and Method, Diane Apostolos-Cappadona presents an overview of the 19th century origins of this discrete field of study and its methodological journey to the present-day through issues of repatriation, museum exhibitions, and globalization. Apostolos-Cappadona …
What is Protestant Art?
Häftad, 2018
1214 kr
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What is Protestant Art? presents an introduction to Protestant visual culture from the Reformation to the present. Examining historical images as evidence of changing practices and attitudes, Andrew T. Coates explores three major themes in the history of Protestant visual culture: 1) the religious …
History of Theory and Method in the Study of Religion and Dance
Past, Present, and Future
Häftad, 2018
1214 kr
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The relationship between religion and dance is as old as humankind. Contemporary methods for studying this relationship date back a century. The difference between these two time frames is significant: scholars are still developing theories and methods capable of illuminating this vast history that …
Modern Jewish Art
Definitions, Problems, and Opportunities
Av Ori Soltes
Häftad, 2019
1240 kr
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In Modern Jewish Art: Definitions, Problems, and Opportunities, Ori Z. Soltes considers both the emerging and evolving discussion on, and the expanding array of practitioners of ‘Jewish art’ in the past two hundred years. He notes the developing problem of how to define ‘Judaism’ in the 19th …
Beyond the Return of Religion: Art and the Postsecular
Av Lieke Wijnia
Häftad, 2019
1201 kr
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Beyond the Return of Religion: Art and the Postsecular explores the conceptual potential of the postsecular for investigations of (late) modern art and religion. Indicating a public co-existence and merging of religion and the secular, the postsecular is approached as an alternative to the return …
Clothing as Devotion in Contemporary Hinduism
Av Urmila Mohan
Häftad, 2019
1214 kr
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In Clothing as Devotion in Contemporary Hinduism, Urmila Mohan explores the materiality and visuality of cloth and clothing as devotional media in contemporary Hinduism. Drawing upon ethnographic research into the global missionizing group “International Society for Krishna Consciousness” (ISKCON), …
Religion and Literature: History and Method
Häftad, 2019
1240 kr
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Religion and literature is the study of interrelationships between religious or theological traditions and literary traditions, both oral and written, with special attention to religious or theological underpinnings of, influences upon, and reflections in, individual “texts” (oral and written) or …
Intersections between Jews and Media
Häftad, 2020
1214 kr
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In this volume, the relationship between Jews and media is not only vividly illustrated, but it is consciously drawn into the formation of modern Jewish history and modern media. Maya Balakirsky Katz addresses key Jewish-media intersections in which Jews and mass media implicated (or were …
Jewish Art in Late Antiquity
The State of Research in Ancient Jewish Art
Häftad, 2021
1110 kr
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Antique Jewish art visualized the idea that the essence of God is beyond the world of forms. In the Bible, the Israelites were commanded to build sanctuaries without cult statues. Following the destruction of the Second Temple, Jews turned to literary and visual aids to fill the void. In this …
Religion and Prison Art in Ming China (1368–1644)
Creative Environment, Creative Subjects
Av Ying Zhang
Häftad, 2020
2335 kr
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Approaching the prison as a creative environment and imprisoned officials as creative subjects in Ming China (1368-1644), Ying Zhang introduces important themes at the intersection of premodern Chinese religion, poetry, and visual and material culture. The Ming is known for its extraordinary …
Architecture of the World’s Major Religions
An Essay on Themes, Differences, and Similarities
Häftad, 2020
2405 kr
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In Architecture of the World’s Major Religions: An Essay on Themes, Differences, and Similarities, Thomas Barrie presents and explains religious architecture in ways that challenge predominant presumptions regarding its aesthetic, formal, spatial, and scenographic elements. Two positions frame its …
Religion and the Digital Arts
Av Sage Elwell
Häftad, 2020
2405 kr
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This slim volume offers a thematic exploration of religion and the digital arts. Over the course of six brief sections, this extended essay examines identity and community, authority and authenticity, word and image, ritual and practice, body and space, and myth and faith. Each of these paired sets …
Religion and the Arts in The Hunger Games
Av Zhange Ni
Häftad, 2020
2558 kr
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In this selective overview of scholarship generated by The Hunger Games—the young adult dystopian fiction and film series which has won popular and critical acclaim—Zhange Ni showcases various investigations into the entanglement of religion and the arts in the new millennium. Ni introduces …
Scholarship on Spanish Mystical Literature
Through an Orientalist Lens
Häftad, 2021
1216 kr
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Gloria Maité Hernández offers an engaging critical review of scholarly works on Spanish mystical literature during the twentieth and early twenty-first century in Europe and the Americas. Bringing together for the first time an ample variety of sources, and letting the scholars’ own voices be …
Is the Sublime Sustainable? A Comparative Aesthetics Approach to the Sublime
Häftad, 2023
1086 kr
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Is the Sublime Sustainable? introduces the key points of debate around the sublime while opening new avenues for future inquiry, especially through its comparative aesthetics approach. In it, you will discover how thinking on the sublime emerged historically and then engage with the recent critical …
