Bridging the gap between cognition and culture, this handbook explores both social scientific and humanities approaches to understanding the physical processes of religious life, tradition, practice, and belief. It reflects the cultural turn within the study of religion and puts…
"This work tells a forgotten story of beauty in Islam through the writings of celebrated but little-studied Sufi scholar and saint Rūzbihān Baqlī, 1128-1209. Rūzbihān argued that the pursuit of beauty in the world and in oneself was the goal of Muslim life. One should become bea…
Reveals the importance of the sacramental imagination as the key to the renewal of Christology and of modern Christian literature
This unique contribution to the developing field of theological aesthetics links the theology of Hans Urs von Balthasar and that of Jacques Maritain to the Agrarian writers of the American South: Caroline Gordon, John Crowe Ransom, Allan Tate, and William Lynch. For all of these…
"Offering a processual art history, Gods in the Time of Democracy examines the circuits between aesthetics, religion, politics, and commerce in the monumental statues proliferating in India since the economic reforms of the 1990s"--
"Offering a processual art history, Gods in the Time of Democracy examines the circuits between aesthetics, religion, politics, and commerce in the monumental statues proliferating in India since the economic reforms of the 1990s"--
Emergence -- Statues and Sculptors -- Democracy -- Iconopraxis -- Cars and Land -- Scale. "Offering a processual art history, Gods in the Time of Democracy examines the circuits between aesthetics, religion, politics, and commerce in the monumental statues proliferating in Indi…