The Oxford Handbook of Religion and the Arts

ISBN-13: 9780195176674 / Angielski / Twarda / 2014 / 564 str.

Frank Burch Brown

Opis

Nearly every form of religion or spirituality has a vital connection with art. Religions across the world, from Hinduism and Buddhism to Eastern Orthodox Christianity, have been involved over the centuries with a rich array of artistic traditions, both sacred and secular. In its uniquely multi-dimensional consideration of the topic, The Oxford Handbook of Religion and the Arts provides expert guidance to artistry and aesthetic theory in religion.
The Handbook offers nearly forty original essays by an international team of leading scholars on the main topics, issues, methods, and resources for the study of religious and theological aesthetics. The volume ranges from antiquity to the present day to examine religious and artistic imagination, fears of idolatry, aesthetics in worship, and the role of art in social transformation and in popular religion-covering a full array of forms of media, from music and poetry to architecture and film.
An authoritative text for scholars and students, The Oxford Handbook of Religion and the Arts will remain an invaluable resource for years to come.

Recenzje

He skillfully assembles essays that profile the rapidly burgeoning field of religion and the arts in a way that is helpful to experts and non-experts alike ... The Oxford Handbook of Religion and the Arts delivers on its promise providing a useful resource for those wanting to negotiate the contours of the field of religion, the arts and religious aesthetics

O autorze

Frank Burch Brown is Frederick Doyle Kershner Professor of Religion & the Arts at Christian Theological Seminary.