Aesthetics And Analysis In Writing On Religion
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Author | : Daniel Gold |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Aesthetics |
ISBN | : 9781597344531 |
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This book addresses a fundamental dilemma in religious studies. Exploring the tension between humanistic and social scientific approaches to thinking and writing about religion, Daniel Gold develops a line of argument that begins with the aesthetics of academic writing in the field. He shows that successful writers on religion employ characteristic aesthetic strategies in communicating their visions of human truths. Gold examines these strategies with regard to epistemology and to the study of religion as a collective endeavor.
Author | : Daniel Gold |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2003-06-10 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0520929519 |
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This book addresses a fundamental dilemma in religious studies. Exploring the tension between humanistic and social scientific approaches to thinking and writing about religion, Daniel Gold develops a line of argument that begins with the aesthetics of academic writing in the field. He shows that successful writers on religion employ characteristic aesthetic strategies in communicating their visions of human truths. Gold examines these strategies with regard to epistemology and to the study of religion as a collective endeavor.
Author | : Daniel Gold |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2003-06-10 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0520236130 |
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Annotation This is a book that looks at contemporary challenges to studying and writing in religion, rethinking the discipline in a way that takes seriously both the aesthetic dimensions and its need for scientific discipline. Gold pursues a new line of thought about the art of religion, arguing for something he calls interpretive writing.
Author | : Dirk Johannsen |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 391 |
Release | : 2020-01-29 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 900442167X |
Download Narrative Cultures and the Aesthetics of Religion Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Narrative Cultures and the Aesthetics of Religion studies narrativity as situated modes of engaging with reality in religious contexts across the globe, equally shaped by the immersive character of the stories told and the sensory qualities of their performances.
Author | : Alexandra K. Grieser |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 2017-12-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3110460459 |
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This volume is the first English language presentation of the innovative approaches developed in the aesthetics of religion. The chapters present diverse material and detailed analysis on descriptive, methodological and theoretical concepts that together explore the potential of an aesthetic approach for investigating religion as a sensory and mediated practice. In dialogue with, yet different from, other major movements in the field (material culture, anthropology of the senses, for instance), it is the specific intent of this approach to create a framework for understanding the interplay between sensory, cognitive and socio-cultural aspects of world-construction. The volume demonstrates that aesthetics, as a theory of sensory knowledge, offers an elaborate repertoire of concepts that can help to understand religious traditions. These approaches take into account contemporary developments in scientific theories of perception, neuro-aesthetics and cultural studies, highlighting the socio-cultural and political context informing how humans perceive themselves and the world around them. Developing since the 1990s, the aesthetic approach has responded to debates in the study of religion, in particular striving to overcome biased categories that confined religion either to texts and abstract beliefs, or to an indisputable sui generis mode of experience. This volume documents what has been achieved to date, its significance for the study of religion and for interdisciplinary scholarship.
Author | : Frank Burch Brown |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 1993-05-09 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0691024723 |
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In this groundbreaking work, Brown shows how aesthetics, no less than ethics, can play a central role in the study of religion and in the practice of theology. "An important book, wide ranging, often very witty . . . showing an impressive grasp of the current state of aesthetics and possible new directions".--Nick McAdoo, British Journal of Aesthetics.
Author | : S. Brent Plate |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 2005-07-08 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1135879567 |
Download Walter Benjamin, Religion and Aesthetics Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Walter Benjamin, Religion, and Aesthetics is an innovative and creative attempt to unsettle and reconceive the key concepts of religious studies through a reading with, and against, Walter Benjamin. Constructing what he calls an "allegorical aesthetics," Plate sifts through Benjamin's writings showing how his concepts of art, allegory, and experience undo traditionally stabilizing religious concepts such as myth, symbol, memory, narrative, creation, and redemption.
Author | : Charles Taliaferro |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 2021-04-08 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1108470742 |
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An essay on the religious significance of the person in philosophy of beauty, aesthetic experience, and the philosophy of art.
Author | : Ines Weinrich |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2020-10-09 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781013292781 |
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Religious aesthetics have gained increasing importance over the past few years in the fields of Religious studies and Islamic studies. This volume highlights the transcultural dimensions of the theoretical foundations of religious aesthetics. It explores aesthetic experience in the religious field through a series of case studies. These include Islamic sermons from the Middle East and South Asia, Islamic religious chanting, a chapter of the Qurʾān, a German performance artist, Indian rasa theory, and Arabic and Bengali literature. Together, the authors demonstrate that the analysis of the aesthetic forms of religious mediation across regions and genres is a fruitful approach to transcultural studies. This work was published by Saint Philip Street Press pursuant to a Creative Commons license permitting commercial use. All rights not granted by the work's license are retained by the author or authors.
Author | : Gregory D. Alles |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2010-03 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 113415271X |
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Drawing on recent developments in the comparative study of religion, this book explores the trends of the past sixty years from a global perspective. Each of the ten chapters covers the study of religion in a different region of the world, from Europe and the Americas to Asia and the Far East. Topics covered include: local background to the study of religions formation of religious studies in the region important thinkers and writings institutions interregional diversity and interregional connections emerging issues. This book is a major contribution to the field of religious studies and a valuable reference for scholars, researchers and graduate students.