Drawing On Religion

Author : Ken Koltun-Fromm
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-11
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9780271088501

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Drawing on Religion by Ken Koltun-Fromm Pdf

Comics traffic in stereotypes, which can translate into real danger, as was the case when, in 2015, two Muslim gunmen opened fire at the offices of Charlie Hebdo, which had published depictions of Islam and Muhammad perceived by many to be blasphemous. As a response to that tragedy, Ken Koltun-Fromm calls for us to expand our moral imaginations through readings of graphic religious narratives. Utilizing a range of comic books and graphic novels, including R. Crumb’s Book of Genesis Illustrated, Craig Thompson’s Blankets, the Vakil brothers’ 40 Sufi Comics, and Ms. Marvel, Koltun-Fromm argues that representing religion in these formats is an ethical issue. By focusing on the representation of Christian, Jewish, Muslim, and Hindu religious traditions, the comics discussed in this book bear witness to the ethical imagination, the possibilities of traversing religious landscapes, and the problematic status of racial, classed, and gendered characterizations of religious persons. Koltun-Fromm explores what religious stereotypes do and how they function in comics in ways that might expand or diminish our imaginative worlds. The pedagogical challenge, he argues, is to linger in that space and see those worlds well, with both ethical sensitivity and moral imagination. Accessibly written and vibrantly illustrated, this book sheds new light on the ways in which comic arts depict religious faith and culture. It will appeal to students and scholars of religion, literature, and comic studies.

Author : Jolyon Baraka Thomas
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-10-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780824835897

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Drawing on Tradition by Jolyon Baraka Thomas Pdf

Manga and anime (illustrated serial novels and animated films) are highly influential Japanese entertainment media that boast tremendous domestic consumption as well as worldwide distribution and an international audience. Drawing on Tradition examines religious aspects of the culture of manga and anime production and consumption through a methodological synthesis of narrative and visual analysis, history, and ethnography. Rather than merely describing the incidence of religions such as Buddhism or Shinto in these media, Jolyon Baraka Thomas shows that authors and audiences create and re-create “religious frames of mind” through their imaginative and ritualized interactions with illustrated worlds. Manga and anime therefore not only contribute to familiarity with traditional religious doctrines and imagery, but also allow authors, directors, and audiences to modify and elaborate upon such traditional tropes, sometimes creating hitherto unforeseen religious ideas and practices. The book takes play seriously by highlighting these recursive relationships between recreation and religion, emphasizing throughout the double sense of play as entertainment and play as adulteration (i.e., the whimsical or parodic representation of religious figures, doctrines, and imagery). Building on recent developments in academic studies of manga and anime—as well as on recent advances in the study of religion as related to art and film—Thomas demonstrates that the specific aesthetic qualities and industrial dispositions of manga and anime invite practices of rendition and reception that can and do influence the ways that religious institutions and lay authors have attempted to captivate new audiences. Drawing on Tradition will appeal to both the dilettante and the specialist: Fans and self-professed otaku will find an engaging academic perspective on often overlooked facets of the media and culture of manga and anime, while scholars and students of religion will discover a fresh approach to the complicated relationships between religion and visual media, religion and quotidian practice, and the putative differences between “traditional” and “new” religions.

Author : Jeri Gerding
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art and religion
ISBN : 189373224X

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Drawing to God by Jeri Gerding Pdf

Jeri Gerding believes that anyone can pray by drawing, by painting, by doing whatever kind of art attracts them. You don't have to be an accomplished artist. You may be just a beginner. You may think of yourself as having no artistic ability. Wherever you may place yourself in the spectrum of artistic ability, these fifteen art activities, described in easy-to-follow detail, will show you how to create your own art as a form of prayer.

Author : Jeanette Siufanua
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 64 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1513610430

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Temples by Jeanette Siufanua Pdf

Author : Pierre-Yves Brandt,Zhargalma Dandarova-Robert,Christelle Cocco,Dominique Vinck,Frédéric Darbellay
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2023-01-04
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030944292

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When Children Draw Gods by Pierre-Yves Brandt,Zhargalma Dandarova-Robert,Christelle Cocco,Dominique Vinck,Frédéric Darbellay Pdf

This open access book explores how children draw god. It looks at children’s drawings collected in a large variety of cultural and religious traditions. Coverage demonstrates the richness of drawing as a method for studying representations of the divine. In the process, it also contributes to our understanding of this concept, its origins, and its development. This intercultural work brings together scholars from different disciplines and countries, including Switzerland, Japan, Russia, Iran, Brazil, and the Netherlands. It does more than share the results of their research and analysis. The volume also critically examines the contributions and limitations of this methodology. In addition, it also reflects on the new empirical and theoretical perspectives within the broader framework of the study of this concept. The concept of god is one of the most difficult to grasp. This volume offers new insights by focusing on the many different ways children depict god throughout the world. Readers will discover the importance of spatial imagery and color choices in drawings of god. They will also learn about how the divine's emotional expression correlates to age, gender, and religiosity as well as strategies used by children who are prohibited from representing their god.

Author : Mark C. Taylor
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1999-07
Category : Computers
ISBN : 0226791629

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About Religion by Mark C. Taylor Pdf

"Religion," Mark C. Taylor maintains, "is most interesting where it is least obvious." From global financial networks to the casinos of Las Vegas, from images flickering on computer terminals to steel sculpture, material culture bears unexpected traces of the divine. In a world where the economies of faith are obscure, yet pervasive, Taylor shows that approaching religion directly is less instructive than thinking about it. Traveling from high culture to pop culture and back again, About Religion approaches cyberspace and Las Vegas through Hegel and Kant and reads Melville's The Confidence-Man through the film Wall Street. As astonishing juxtapositions and associations proliferate, formerly uncharted territories of virtual culture disclose theological vestiges, showing that faith in contemporary culture is as unavoidable as it is elusive. The most accessible presentation of Taylor's revolutionary ideas to date, About Religion gives us a dazzling and disturbing vision of life at the end of the old and beginning of the new millennium.

Author : I. I. I. Radcliffe G. G. Edmonds III,Radcliffe G. Edmonds III
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-12-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691230214

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Drawing Down the Moon by I. I. I. Radcliffe G. G. Edmonds III,Radcliffe G. Edmonds III Pdf

An unparalleled exploration of magic in the Greco-Roman world What did magic mean to the people of ancient Greece and Rome? How did Greeks and Romans not only imagine what magic could do, but also use it to try to influence the world around them? In Drawing Down the Moon, Radcliffe Edmonds, one of the foremost experts on magic, religion, and the occult in the ancient world, provides the most comprehensive account of the varieties of phenomena labeled as magic in classical antiquity. Exploring why certain practices, images, and ideas were labeled as “magic” and set apart from “normal” kinds of practices, Edmonds gives insight into the shifting ideas of religion and the divine in the ancient past and later Western tradition. Using fresh approaches to the history of religions and the social contexts in which magic was exercised, Edmonds delves into the archaeological record and classical literary traditions to examine images of witches, ghosts, and demons as well as the fantastic powers of metamorphosis, erotic attraction, and reversals of nature, such as the famous trick of drawing down the moon. From prayer and divination to astrology and alchemy, Edmonds journeys through all manner of ancient magical rituals and paraphernalia—ancient tablets, spell books, bindings and curses, love charms and healing potions, and amulets and talismans. He considers the ways in which the Greco-Roman discourse of magic was formed amid the cultures of the ancient Mediterranean, including Egypt and the Near East. An investigation of the mystical and marvelous, Drawing Down the Moon offers an unparalleled record of the origins, nature, and functions of ancient magic.

Author : Karen Kiefer
Publisher : Paraclete Press (MA)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1640601872

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Drawing God by Karen Kiefer Pdf

Emma wants to draw something beyond spectacular and decides to draw God. She is quick to share her masterpiece with her best friend at school, but he can't see God in her drawing. She realizes the power of her contagious inspiration when she returns to school to find everyone drawing God -- and every picture is different.rent.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-02
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004299320

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The Concept of Religion by Anonim Pdf

In The Concept of Religion Hans Schilderman edits a volume on the definition and empirical study of religious beliefs and practices within a variety of settings of schools, churches and society at large.

Author : William Watkiss Lloyd
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1865
Category : Bible
ISBN : BL:A0018418768

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Christianity in the Cartoons by William Watkiss Lloyd Pdf

A study of Raphael's cartoons for the Sistine Chapel.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004496200

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Research in the Social Scientific Study of Religion, Volume 12 by Anonim Pdf

The purpose of this book is to provide an outlet for original research articles examining the role and value of religious and spiritual constructs across the social sciences. The aim of the series is to include an international and interfaith voice to this research dialogue. An effort is made to be interdisciplinary and academically eclectic. The articles in the current volume represent a wide array of perspectives and research projects. Most of the articles report the findings of quantitative or qualitative investigations, but some deal with methodology, theory, or applications of social science studies in the field of religion, and some are applied, demonstrating the relevance of the social sciences to religious organizations and their clergy. The value of the volume is that it gives to researchers in this area a broad perspective on the issues and methods of religious research across a spectrum of academic disciplines. The aim of the book is to stimulate a creative, integrative dialogue that will enhance interdisciplinary research.

Author : Jamie Aten,Kari O'Grady,Everett Worthington, Jr.
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-06-19
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135224370

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The Psychology of Religion and Spirituality for Clinicians by Jamie Aten,Kari O'Grady,Everett Worthington, Jr. Pdf

"The purpose of this edited book is to provide mental health practitioners with a functional understanding of the empirical literature on the psychology of religion and spirituality, while at the same time outlining clinical implications, assessments, and strategies for counseling and psychotherapy. This text is different from others on this topic because it will help to bridge the gap between the psychology of religion and spirituality research and clinical practice. Each chapter covers clinically relevant topics, such as religious and spiritual development, religious and spiritual coping, and mystical and spiritual experiences as well as discuss clinical implications, clinical assessment, and treatment strategies. Diverse religious and spiritual (e.g., Jewish, Islamic, Christian, and Buddhist, etc.) clinical examples are also be integrated throughout the chapters to further connect the psychology of religion and spirituality research with related clinical implications."--Provided by publisher.

Author : Sarah B. Barber,Arthur A. Joyce
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317440826

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Religion and Politics in the Ancient Americas by Sarah B. Barber,Arthur A. Joyce Pdf

This exciting collection explores the interplay of religion and politics in the precolumbian Americas. Each thought-provoking contribution positions religion as a primary factor influencing political innovations in this period, reinterpreting major changes through an examination of how religion both facilitated and constrained transformations in political organization and status relations. Offering unparalleled geographic and temporal coverage of this subject, Religion and Politics in the Ancient Americas spans the entire precolumbian period, from Preceramic Peru to the Contact period in eastern North America, with case studies from North, Middle, and South America. Religion and Politics in the Ancient Americas considers the ways in which religion itself generated political innovation and thus enabled political centralization to occur. It moves beyond a "Great Tradition" focus on elite religion to understand how local political authority was negotiated, contested, bolstered, and undermined within diverse constituencies, demonstrating how religion has transformed non-Western societies. As well as offering readers fresh perspectives on specific archaeological cases, this book breaks new ground in the archaeological examination of religion and society.

Author : Bryan Rennie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-02-13
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000046793

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An Ethology of Religion and Art by Bryan Rennie Pdf

Drawing from sources including the ethology of art and the cognitive science of religion this book proposes an improved understanding of both art and religion as behaviors developed in the process of human evolution. Looking at both art and religion as closely related, but not identical, behaviors a more coherent definition of religion can be formed that avoids pitfalls such as the Eurocentric characterization of religion as belief or the dismissal of the category as nothing more than false belief or the product of scholarly invention. The book integrates highly relevant insights from the ethology and anthropology of art, particularly the identification of "the special" by Ellen Dissanayake and art as agency by Alfred Gell, with insights from, among others, Ann Taves, who similarly identified "specialness" as characteristic of religion. It integrates these insights into a useful and accurate understanding and explanation of the relationship of art and religion and of religion as a human behavior. This in turn is used to suggest how art can contribute to the development and maintenance of religions. The innovative combination of art, science, and religion in this book makes it a vital resource for scholars of Religion and the Arts, Aesthetics, Religious Studies, Religion and Science and Religious Anthropology.

Author : W. Richard Cowper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 516 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1884
Category : Education
ISBN : PSU:000057389905

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Proceedings by W. Richard Cowper Pdf