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Challenge of the Silver Screen
An Analysis of the Cinematic Portraits of Jesus, Rama, Buddha and Muhammad
Inbunden, 2009
2648 kr
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In 1897 – only two years after the invention of film – the first feature film about Jesus appeared. This and other films about Jesus became examples for and an inspiration for films on other important religious figures like Rama, Buddha and Muhammad. Although religious leaders did not always …
Sacred Text -- Sacred Space
Architectural, Spiritual and Literary Convergences in England and Wales
Inbunden, 2011
3057 kr
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This book is not designed to define the sacred. It is, rather, a bringing together of case histories (a rich, varied collection from medieval, early modern and nineteenth-century contexts in England and Wales) that goes beyond familiar paradigms to explore the dynamic, protean interaction, in …
Crescent on the Temple
The Dome of the Rock as Image of the Ancient Jewish Sanctuary
Inbunden, 2012
2782 kr
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"The Crescent on the Temple" by Pamela Berger elucidates an obscured tradition—how the Dome of the Rock came to stand for the Temple of Solomon in Christian, Muslim, and Jewish art. The crusaders called the Dome of the Rock the “Temple of the Lord,” while Muslim imagery depicted Solomon enthroned …
Unheard Prayer
Religious Toleration in Shakespeare's Drama
Inbunden, 2012
2543 kr
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Titus shoots his arrows bearing petitions for justice to the gods; Claudius asks ‘what form of prayer can serve my turn?’; Lear wishes he could crack the vault of heaven with his prayers. Again and again, Shakespeare dramatises the scenario of the unheard prayer, in which the one who prays does so …
Mary Magdalene, Iconographic Studies from the Middle Ages to the Baroque
Inbunden, 2012
3847 kr
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Mary Magdalene, Iconographic Studies from the Middle Ages to the Baroque examines the iconographic inventions in Magdalene imagery and the contextual factors that shaped her representation in visual art from the fourteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Unique to other saints in the medieval …
Transcendence and Sensoriness
Perceptions, Revelation, and the Arts
Inbunden, 2015
4225 kr
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Protestant theology and culture are known for a reserved, at times skeptical, attitude to the use of art and aesthetic forms of expression in a religious context. In Transcendence and Sensoriness, this attitude is analysed and discussed both theoretically and through case studies considered in a …
Modernism, Christianity and Apocalypse
Av Erik Tonning
Inbunden, 2014
3052 kr
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Modernism, Christianity and Apocalypse stages an encounter between the fields of ‘Modernism and Christianity’ and ‘Apocalypse Studies’. The modernist impulse to ‘make it new’, to transform and reform culture, is an incipiently apocalyptic one, poised between imaginative representations of an Old …
Spiritus Loci
A Theological Method for Contemporary Church Architecture
Inbunden, 2015
3261 kr
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In Spiritus Loci Bert Daelemans, who graduated as an architect and a theologian, provides an interdisciplinary method for the theological assessment of church architecture. Rather than a theory, this method is based on case studies of contemporary buildings (1995-2015), which are often criticized …
Medieval Presence in the Modernist Aesthetic
Unattended Moments
Av Simone Celine Marshall, Carole M. Cusack
Inbunden, 2017
2242 kr
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In The Medieval Presence in the Modernist Aesthetic: Unattended Moments, editors Simone Celine Marshall and Carole M. Cusack have brought together essays on literary Modernism that uncover medieval themes and tropes that have previously been “unattended”, that is, neglected or ignored. A historical …
In-Between Identities: Signs of Islam in Contemporary American Writing
Inbunden, 2018
2377 kr
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For the writers and artists in In-Between Identities: Signs of Islam in Contemporary American Writing, contemporary Muslim American identity is neither singular nor fixed. Rather than dismiss the tradition in favor of more secular approaches, however, all of the figures here discover in Muhammad’s …
Literary Representations of Christianity in Late Qing and Republican China
Inbunden, 2019
2872 kr
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Literary Representations of Christianity in Late Qing and Republican China contributes to the “literary turn” in the study of Chinese Christianity by foregrounding the importance of literary texts, including the major genres of Chinese Christian literature (novels, drama and poetry) of the late …
Scorsese and Religion
Av Christopher B. Barnett, Clark J. Elliston
Inbunden, 2019
2818 kr
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Scorsese and Religion concerns the religious vision of the great American filmmaker Martin Scorsese. Not only will this volume explore the foundation of Scorsese’s interest in religion—namely, his relation to the Catholic Church—but it will also highlight the religious breadth of Scorsese’s corpus. …
Transformations of Tragedy
Christian Influences from Early Modern to Modern
Av Fionnuala O’Neill Tonning, Erik Tonning m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
3019 kr
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The Transformations of Tragedy: Christian Influences from Early Modern to Modern explores the influence of Christian theology and culture upon the development of post-classical Western tragedy. The volume is divided into three parts: early modern, modern, and contemporary. This series of essays by …
Religious Narratives in Contemporary Culture
Between Cultural Memory and Transmediality
Av Maria Sabina Draga-Alexandru
Inbunden, 2021
2447 kr
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Religious Narratives in Contemporary Culture: Between Cultural Memory and Transmediality analyses the meaning and role of religion in western cultural practices in the twenty-first century. This inquiry situates itself at the intersection between cultural memory studies and the transmedial study of …
Shakespeare and religio mentis
A Study of Christian Hermetism in Four Plays
Inbunden, 2022
2085 kr
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Have you ever wondered why Cordelia has to die? Or how Alonso talks and walks about the isle while his body lies ‘full fathom five’ on the sea floor? Ever wondered why the monument to Shakespeare in the Church of the Holy Trinity in Stratford-upon-Avon names three pagans: Nestor, Socrates, and …
Performing the Sacred: Christian Representation and the Arts
Av Carla M. Bino, Corinna Ricasoli
Inbunden, 2022
2153 kr
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What does 'performance' mean in Christian culture? How is it connected to rituals, dramatic and visual arts, and the written word? Performing the Sacred: Christian Representation and the Arts explores both the meaning of re-presentation and the role of performance within the Christian tradition …
Beauty, Devotion and Spirituality
The Art and Culture of the Oratorians of Saint Philip Neri
Av Joaquim Rodrigues dos Santos
Inbunden, 2024
2132 kr
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There is scant research on the art produced under the Congregation of the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri, with the exception of a couple of general books focused primarily on major Oratorian art pieces. Therefore, this book of essays aims to discuss the art and culture produced by or associated with …
Off-Modern Catholic Aesthetics
Rethinking the Role of Religion in Twentieth-Century Art and Architecture
Inbunden, 2025
2746 kr
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Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction1 Off-Modern Profiles2 Unpacking the Dynamics of Catholic Modernisation3 “The Eclipse of God”: Transplanted Artists4 “Background Metaphorics”: Exchanges between Art and Religion5 Structure of the Book1 Antinomies of Art and Theology. Marie-Alain …
Heretical History of Architecture
Inbunden, 2024
3663 kr
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A Heretical History of Architecture challenges the conventional understanding of significant developments in Western architecture as a series of alignments among dominant ideologies and artistic programs, arguing instead that the most consequential changes in the evolution of artistic and design …
Inventing the Secular
Literature and Religion from Medieval to Modern
Av Erik Tonning, Fionnuala O’Neill Tonning
Inbunden, 2026
2186 kr
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This book explores how literature has actively shaped, rather than merely reflected, ideas of "the secular". Bringing together leading scholars from medieval to modern studies, it traces the imaginative, moral, and political inventions through which Western secularity emerged from within religious …
