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Heretical History Of Architecture

by Andrzej Piotrowski

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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 practices across Europe between the fifth and seventeenth centuries were motivated by tensions between local religious or cultural traditions and centralized power. This groundbreaking study richly demonstrates the processes through which heterodox beliefs that persisted within numerous diverse communities resulted in design experimentation so syncretic that it has heretofore eluded scholars employing conventional Euro-centric taxonomies of architectural styles.
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Off-Modern Catholic Aesthetics - Rethinking The Role Of Religion In Twentieth-Century Art And Architecture

by Samuel O'Connor Perks

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 Acknowledgements List of Illustrations Introduction 1 Off-Modern Profiles 2 Unpacking the Dynamics of Catholic Modernisation 3 "The Eclipse of God": Transplanted Artists 4 "Background Metaphorics": Exchanges between Art and Religion 5 Structure of the Book 1 Antinomies of Art and Theology. Marie-Alain Couturier and the Contradictions of Modern Sacred Culture Introduction: Couturier's Conceptual Zig Zags Prelude. Paris, 1953. The Contradictoires Text Sacred Art between the Mechanical and Natural Attitudes 1 Le Saulchoir/Paris, 1918-1930. Catholic Endgame, or the Narrative of Decline 1.1 "Down with the Republic, Long Live the King!": Couturier's Romantic Anti-Capitalism and the Return to Order (Paris, 1919-1925) 1.2 Couturier's Neo-Thomist Aesthetics (Le Saulchoir, 1925-1930) 2 Rome/Paris, 1930-1940. The Gospels and Fraternal Catholic Modernism 2.1 The Human Truth of the Gospel (Rome, 1930-1932) 2.2 The Art of the Incarnation (Paris, 1935-1937) 3 1940-1953. the Secular Prophet. Couturier on Modern Sacred Architecture 3.1 The Politics of French Artistic Modernity 3.2 Artistic Abstraction and Catholic Humanism 3.3 Conflicted Temporalities of Aesthetic Categories in Couturier's Late Writings 3.4 Modesty: a Critical Counter-Concept to Modernity 3.5 On the Autonomy of Modern Art and Artists 3.6 On the Uses and Abuses of Poverty in the Modern Era 2 Between Mysticism and Industry: the Bauhaus Diaspora, the Benedictines and the Ambiguities of Architectural Symbolism Introduction: Mechanics, Symbols and History 1 Navigating the Divide. Breuer and the Benedictines on Architectural Symbolism 1.1 Breuer's Pre-Modern Imaginary 1.2 Breuer's Architectural Symbolism: Tension-Structures 1.3 Liturgy and Labour 1.4 Benedictine Symbolism, Form, and Function 2 Form and Symbolism: The Language of Religious Experience 2.1 1959: A Divided Committee 2.2 Albers on Form and Tradition 2.3 Albers: Spirituality Contra Science 2.4 The Public Dimension of Symbols Coda. Unpacking the Semantics of the "Sacred" in Modern Architecture 3 Catholic Metaphorology. Dominique de Menil and the Role of Conversion in Aesthetic Education Introduction 1 Connecting the Dots Between Paris and Houston 217 1.1 Dominique de Menil's Rothko Chapel Speech, 1971 1.2 An Intellectual Apprenticeship: Typologies of Engagement 1.3 Conceptual Ramifications: from Religion to Aesthetics 2 Catholicisme Ondoyant 2.1 The Intellectual Context of Congar's Montmartre Lectures in 1936 2.2 A Source of Congar's Pluralism: Thomas Cajetan on the Image 2.3 Organic and Embodied Metaphors 2.4 The Social Dimension of Catholicism: Yves Congar on Unbelief in 1930s France 3 Putting Conversion to Work After World War II 3.1 Art Education and Socia...
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Beauty, Devotion And Spirituality - The Art And Culture Of The Oratorians Of Saint Philip Neri

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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 the Oratorians by providing a broad overview focused especially on rarely investigated issues. The authors focus on this very important artistic production, commonly forgotten when compared with other religious productions of art, by covering geographical areas spanning from Sri Lanka to Mexico, including Italy, Spain, the United Kingdom, India and Brazil.
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Performing The Sacred: Christian Representation And The Arts

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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 between arts and drama. The essays in this book demonstrate that the idea of performance was central to Christian theology and that-from the Middle Ages to the Early Modern era-it became a device through which people saw, prayed, preached, wrote, imagined, officiated rites, celebrated cults, and practiced devotions. Seen that performance is a habitus within Christianity, performing the sacred does not just mean representing it, but rather enacting it in a tangible, visible and involved way.
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Studies In The Hymnody Of Isaac Watts

by David W. Music

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 The hymns of Isaac Watts are a remarkable blend of biblical, theological, liturgical, poetic, musical, and practical dimensions, some of which have seldom been touched upon in previous studies of the hymn writer. In this book, you will find analyses of Watts's texts from each of these perspectives. As shown by this study, it is not only these individual factors but their combination that made Watts's hymns innovative but also effective and long lasting in his own time-and that makes many of them still useful and widely sung today.
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Religious Narratives In Contemporary Culture - Between Cultural Memory And Transmediality

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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 narrative and art. Contributors focus on genres which have yet to receive significant critical attention within the field, including speculative fiction films and television series, autobiographical prose and poetry, and action-adventure video games. In this time of crisis, where traces of religious thinking still persist in the presence or absence of religious faith, this volume's collective look into some of their cultural embodiments is necessary and timely. The volume is addressed primarily to scholars and students interested in intersections between religious and cultural studies, revisions of traditional religious narratives, literature as a space of reflection on today's world, contemporary media studies and remediation. Maria-Sabina Draga Alexandru's editing work in the last stages of this volume was supported by a grant of the Romanian Ministry of Education and Research, CNCS - UEFISCDI, project number PN-III-P3-3.6-H2020-0035.
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Transformations Of Tragedy - Christian Influences From Early Modern To Modern

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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 established and emergent scholars offers a sustained study of Christianity's creative influence upon experimental forms of Western tragic drama. Both early modern and modern tragedy emerged within periods of remarkable upheaval in Church history, yet Christianity's diverse influence upon tragedy has too often been either ignored or denounced by major tragic theorists. This book contends instead that the history of tragedy cannot be sufficiently theorised without fully registering the impact of Christianity in transition towards modernity.
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Literary Representations Of Christianity In Late Qing And Republican China

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Literary Representations Of Christianity In Late Qing And Republican China

by John T. P. Lai

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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 Qing and Republican periods. These multifarious types of texts demonstrated the multiple representations and dynamic scenes of Christianity, where Christian imageries and symbolism were transformed by linguistic manipulation into new contextualized forms which nurtured distinctive new fruits of literature and modernized the literary landscape of Chinese literature. The study of the composition and poetics of Chinese Christian literary works helps us rediscover the concerns, priorities, textual strategies of the Christian writers, the cross-cultural challenges involved, and the reception of the Bible.
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In-Between Identities: Signs Of Islam In Contemporary American Writing

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In-Between Identities: Signs Of Islam In Contemporary American Writing

by John Waldmeir

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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 revelation resources for affirming such uncertainty. For them, the Qur'anic notion of a divine "sign" validates creation, even that creativity born of contrasting if not competing assumptions about identity. To develop this claim, individual chapters in the book discuss Muslim faith in the work of poets Naomi Shihab Nye, Kazim Ali, Tyson Amir and Amir Sulaiman; novelists Mohja Kahf, Rabih Alameddine, and Willow Wilson; illustrator Sandow Birk; playwright Ayad Akhtar; and the online record of the 30 Mosques in 30 Days project.
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Medieval Presence In The Modernist Aesthetic - Unattended Moments

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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 span of a century is covered, from musical modernist Richard Wagner's final opera Parsifal (1882) to Russell Hoban's speculative fiction Riddley Walker (1980), and themes of Arthurian literature, scholastic philosophy, Irish legends, classical philology, dream theory, Orthodox theology and textual exegesis are brought into conversation with key Modernist writers, including T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Samuel Beckett, Marcel Proust, W. B. Yeats, Evelyn Waugh and Eugene Ionesco. These scholarly investigations are original, illuminating, and often delightful.
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David Jones: A Christian Modernist?

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 David Jones: A Christian Modernist? is a major reassessment of the work of the poet, artist and essayist David Jones (1895-1974) in light of the complex, ambiguous idea of a 'Christian modernism'. His richly experimental and palimpsestic poetry, art and thought drew extensively on Christian tradition and symbolism as a key to the future: rejecting a technocratic and utilitarian modernity in favour of a revitalised culture of sign and sacrament. This volume examines historical influences on Jones's development, his impassioned engagement with the idea of modernity and with modernist literature and art, the theological sources and resonances of his work, and contemporary or late-modern perspectives on his achievement.
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Transcendence And Sensoriness - Perceptions, Revelation, And The Arts

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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 broad theological and philosophical framework of religious aesthetics. Nordic scholars of theology, philosophy, art, music, and architecture, discuss questions of transcendence, the human senses, and the arts in order to challenge established perspectives within the aesthetics of religion and theology.
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Modernism, Christianity And Apocalypse

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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 Era or civilization and the experimental promise of the New. Christianity figures in formative tension with the 'new', but its apocalyptic paradigms continued to impact modernist visions of cultural revitalization.In three sections tracing a rough chronology from the late nineteenth century fin de siecle, via interwar conflicts and the rise of 'political religions', to post-1945 anxieties such as the Bomb, this thematic is explored in nineteen far-ranging scholarly contributions, outlining a distinctive and fresh interdisciplinary field of study.
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Mary Magdalene, Iconographic Studies From The Middle Ages To The Baroque

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Mary Magdalene, Iconographic Studies From The Middle Ages To The Baroque

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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 lexicon, images of Mary Magdalene were altered over time to satisfy the changing needs of her patrons as well as her audience. By shedding light on the relationship between the Magdalene and her patrons, both corporate and private, as well as the religious institutions and regions where her imagery is found, this anthology reveals the flexibility of the Magdalene's character in art and, in essence, the reinvention of her iconography from one generation to the next.
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Crescent On The Temple - The Dome Of The Rock As Image Of The Ancient Jewish Sanctuary

by Pamela Berger

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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 within the domed structure. Jews knew that the ancient Temple had been destroyed. Nevertheless, in their imagery, they commonly labeled the Muslim shrine "The Temple." That domed "Temple" was often represented with a crescent on top. This iconography, long hidden in plain sight, reflects one aspect of an historical affinity between Jews and Muslims.
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Unheard Prayer - Religious Toleration In Shakespeare'S Drama

by Joseph Sterrett

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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 full well in the knowledge that no one is listening, interested, or even there at all. The scenario is keyed to the anxieties that surrounded the act of praying itself, so full as it was with controversy, the centrepiece of sectarian dispute over what was good and bad religion. This study reads the unheard prayer scenario as itself an appeal for a vision of tolerance, unobtainable perhaps, but nevertheless desired and imagined.
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Sacred Text -- Sacred Space - Architectural, Spiritual And Literary Convergences In England And Wales

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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 different times and places, between sacred space and text. Essentially an interdisciplinary enterprise, it focuses a range of historical and critical methodologies on that complex process of transformation and transmission whereby spiritual intuitions, experiences and teachings are made palpable 'in art and architecture, poetry and prayer, in histories, scriptures and liturgies, even landscapes. So the sacred, variously constructed and inscribed, makes itself felt 'on the pulse'; is a presence, a voice even now not stilled.
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Mystery And Matter - On The Relationship Between Liturgy And Architecture In The Thought Of Dom Hans Van Der Laan Osb (1904-1991)

by Michel Remery

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 Most of the scholarship regarding the Dutch monk and architect Dom Hans van der Laan OSB (1904-1991) has been narrowly focused on his architectural theory and projects. The liturgical and theological dimensions have been virtually neglected, though they are vital for a proper understanding of his thought. Through a thorough reading of the original sources, including previously unexplored documents from various archives, this book takes an interdisciplinary approach to Van der Laan's theory. It brings together the different aspects of his work by studying both the liturgical-theological and architectural elements. On this basis the book offers a synthesis of the way in which Van der Laan was able to link earthly matter to the divine Mystery.
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Traversing The Heart - Journeys Of The Inter-Religious Imagination

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 The key wager of Traversing the Heart - Journeys of the Inter-religious Imagination is that a spiritual imaginary operating at the level of metaphor, narrative, symbol and epiphany can traverse the borders of dogma and ideology and open genuine conversations between wisdom traditions. Like every hermeneutics of the heart, this journey begins to unfold in a concrete space and time: the interreligious conference at Bangalore in June 2007. While this collection does not claim to cover the religious traditions of all continents, its concluding essay on transculturation in Andean-Christian art highlights the importance of the North-South dialogue as a necessary supplement to the East-West one largely addressed in the book. As a call to future journeys and dialogue, this volume aims to communicate the one seminal lesson learned during the India conference: that in our third millennium, religions will be inter-religious or they will not be at peace.
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Challenge Of The Silver Screen - An Analysis Of The Cinematic Portraits Of Jesus, Rama, Buddha And Muhammad

by Freek L. Bakker

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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 approve of these films, they did find a ready audience among believers.This book explores these films and looks at how these films dealt with the fundamental question of portraying an individual thought to have either divine status or a very special and unique status among human beings. This book will thus benefit not only students of religious film but also those studying the portrayal of central religious figures in the contemporary world.

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