Religion Art And Visual Culture

Author : S. Plate
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2002-04-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0312240295

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Religion, Art, and Visual Culture by S. Plate Pdf

Religion, Art, and Visual Culture is a cross-cultural exploration of the study of visuality and the arts from a religious perspective. This forward looking and accessible collection gathers together the most current scholarship for those interested in art, religion, visual culture, and cultural studies. Inherently interdisciplinary, this reader approaches the study of world religions through the human, meaning-making activity of seeing. The volume oscillates between specific visual subjects (painting, landscape gardens, calligraphy, architecture, mass media) and the broader theoretical discourses which are relevant to Humanities students today.

Author : Birgit Meyer,Christiane Kruse,Anne-Marie Korte
Publisher : Brill Fink
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Blasphemy
ISBN : 377056345X

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Taking Offense by Birgit Meyer,Christiane Kruse,Anne-Marie Korte Pdf

What makes a picture offensive to some people and not to others? In diverse, pluralistic societies around the world, images are triggering heated controversy as never before. Their study offers a perfect entry point into the clashes between different values, ideas, and sensibilities. How is the relation between regimes of visibility in art, journalism, politics, and religion negotiated in plural settings? Situated at the interface of art history, anthropology and religious studies, this volume unravels the dynamics of taking offense in current politics and aesthetics of cultural representation in Europe and beyond.

Author : Cécile Fromont
Publisher : UNC Press Books
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-19
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781469618722

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The Art of Conversion by Cécile Fromont Pdf

Between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries, the west central African kingdom of Kongo practiced Christianity and actively participated in the Atlantic world as an independent, cosmopolitan realm. Drawing on an expansive and largely unpublished set of objects, images, and documents, Cecile Fromont examines the advent of Kongo Christian visual culture and traces its development across four centuries marked by war, the Atlantic slave trade, and, finally, the rise of nineteenth-century European colonialism. By offering an extensive analysis of the religious, political, and artistic innovations through which the Kongo embraced Christianity, Fromont approaches the country's conversion as a dynamic process that unfolded across centuries. The African kingdom's elite independently and gradually intertwined old and new, local and foreign religious thought, political concepts, and visual forms to mold a novel and constantly evolving Kongo Christian worldview. Fromont sheds light on the cross-cultural exchanges between Africa, Europe, and Latin America that shaped the early modern world, and she outlines the religious, artistic, and social background of the countless men and women displaced by the slave trade from central Africa to all corners of the Atlantic world.

Author : Nathan Rees
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-03-17
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000349795

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Mormon Visual Culture and the American West by Nathan Rees Pdf

This book explores the place of art in Latter-day Saint society during the first 50 years of the Utah settlement, beginning in 1847. Nathan Rees uncovers the critical role that images played in nineteenth-century Mormon religion, politics, and social practice. These artists not only represented, but actively participated in debates about theology, politics, race, gender, and sexuality at a time when Latter-day Saints were grappling with evolving doctrine, conflict with Native Americans, and political turmoil resulting from their practice of polygamy. The book makes an important contribution to art history, Mormon studies, American studies, and religious studies.

Author : David Morgan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2023-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520938304

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The Sacred Gaze by David Morgan Pdf

"Sacred gaze" denotes any way of seeing that invests its object—an image, a person, a time, a place—with spiritual significance. Drawing from many different fields, David Morgan investigates key aspects of vision and imagery in a variety of religious traditions. His lively, innovative book explores how viewers absorb and process religious imagery and how their experience contributes to the social, intellectual, and perceptual construction of reality. Ranging widely from thirteenth-century Japan and eighteenth-century Tibet to contemporary America, Thailand, and Africa, The Sacred Gaze discusses the religious functions of images and the tools viewers use to interpret them. Morgan questions how fear and disgust of images relate to one another and explains how scholars study the long and evolving histories of images as they pass from culture to culture. An intriguing strand of the narrative details how images have helped to shape popular conceptions of gender and masculinity. The opening chapter considers definitions of "visual culture" and how these relate to the traditional practice of art history. Amply illustrated with more than seventy images from diverse religious traditions, this masterful interdisciplinary study provides a comprehensive and accessible resource for everyone interested in how religious images and visual practice order space and time, communicate with the transcendent, and embody forms of communion with the divine. The Sacred Gaze is a vital introduction to the study of the visual culture of religions.

Author : William A. Dyrness
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2001-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780801022975

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Visual Faith by William A. Dyrness Pdf

An intriguing, substantive look into the relationship between the church and the world of art.

Author : David Morgan
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780195130294

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Protestants & Pictures by David Morgan Pdf

In exploring the rise of this culture, author David Morgan shows how Protestants used mass-produced images to dedicate religious revival, proselytism, mass education, and domestic nurture to the aim of national renewal."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Sandra Cardarelli,Emily Jane Anderson,John Richards
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Art and society
ISBN : 1443836281

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Art and Identity by Sandra Cardarelli,Emily Jane Anderson,John Richards Pdf

This book provides a fully contextualised overview on aspects of visual culture, and how this was the product of patronage, politics, and religion in some European countries between the 13th and 17th centuries. The research that is showcased here offers new perspectives on the conception, production and reception of artworks as a means of projecting core values, ideals, and traditions of individuals, groups, and communities. This volume features contributions from established scholars and new researchers in the field, and examines how art contributed to the construction of identities by means of new archival research and a thorough interdisciplinary approach. The authors suggest that the use of conventions in style and iconography allowed the local and wider community to take part in rituals and devotional practices where these works were widely recognized symbols. However, alongside established traditions, new, ad-hoc developments in style and iconography were devised to suit individual requirements, and these are fully discussed in relevant case-studies. This book also contributes to a new understanding of the interaction between artists, patrons, and viewers in Medieval and Renaissance times.

Author : David Morgan,Sally M. Promey
Publisher : Taylor & Francis US
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Art
ISBN : 0520225228

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The Visual Culture of American Religions by David Morgan,Sally M. Promey Pdf

Contemporary artists have often clashed with conservative American evangelicals, giving the impression that art and religion are completely at odds. These essays challenge this tension by investigating their long-standing relationship from the early-19th century to the present day.

Author : David Morgan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1999-09-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520219328

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Visual Piety by David Morgan Pdf

This superb collection of essays challenges the growing tension about religion and the arts by dissecting the intriguing ways religion and the arts have inte frsected in a long, vivid, necessary, and largely positive relationship from the early nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth century. The essays here are unusually strong, sophisticated, mature, and insightful. They are remarkably readable, not merely for art historians but for a broadly interested and intelligent audience. The result is a truly fascinating collection whose essays touch on a wide range of important and fascinating topics in the two-hundred year experience of both American art and American religion. —Jon Butler, Yale University, author of Awash in a Sea of Faith: Christianizing the American People and Religion in American History: A Reader.

Author : S. Brent Plate
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005-07-08
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781135879563

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Walter Benjamin, Religion and Aesthetics by S. Brent Plate Pdf

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 : Suzanna Ivanic
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2022-06-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780500252543

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Catholica by Suzanna Ivanic Pdf

This richly illustrated book provides the visual keys for any art lover to decode and understand the iconography, tenets, sites, and rituals of the Catholic faith through accessible analysis of its visual and material culture. Focusing on a carefully curated selection of Catholic art and artifacts, this volume explores the influence of iconography and the mystic power of a range of ritual objects. Expert Suzanna Ivanic identifies hidden visual symbols in paintings and examines them close-up, building a catalog of key symbols for readers to use to interpret Catholic art and culture. Catholica is organized into three sections—”Tenet,” “Locus,” and “Spiritus”—each with three themed subdivisions. Part one introduces the centerpieces of the faith, surveying symbolism in the artistic representation of the holy family, apostles, and saints in stories from scripture. The second part examines places of worship, identifying the essential elements of the cathedral and presenting evocative images of roadside shrines. The third part explores celebrations and traditions, in addition to personal devotional tools and jewelry. For each of the nine central themes of the faith, introductory text is followed by pages that look in-depth at paintings and artifacts, identifying and explaining the symbolism and stories depicted. As the book progresses, readers build up their knowledge of the entire Catholic visual code—the symbols that define Catholic practice, the attributes of the saints, the parts of the cathedral—allowing them to interpret all Catholic imagery and objects wherever they find them and consequently to better understand the tenets, sites, and rituals of this faith.

Author : Frank Burch Brown
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 565 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780190871192

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The Oxford Handbook of Religion and the Arts by Frank Burch Brown Pdf

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.

Author : David Morgan
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520272224

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The Embodied Eye by David Morgan Pdf

"Exploring a dazzling variety of religious imagery, David Morgan shows how vision functions as an active, physical process, embedded in bodily experience and profoundly shaped by social practice. Morgan's bold, thoughtful interpretations will fascinate art historians and students of visual culture as well as historians of religion.” -Pepe Karmel, Department of Art History, New York University "The Embodied Eye is an important and truly groundbreaking book. It represents a substantive and quite fascinating extension of David Morgan's previous work- especially as it impressively shows us how 'seeing' is the primary medium of social life, and materially integrates the body of the individual and the body of the group. Morgan is unquestionably the pioneering theorist in the whole emergent field of Visual and Culture Studies as it relates to religion and art." -Norman Girardot, University Distinguished Professor, Lehigh University “Under David Morgan’s inspiring guidance, readers are taken on a dazzling journey through religious images that mediate worlds of faith. Embedding vision in the body, this book stands out with its thought-provoking approach to religious media as material and embodied interfaces that underpin the social construction of the sacred.” -Birgit Meyer, Professor of Religious Studies, Utrecht University

Author : Douglas G. Adams,Diane Apostolos-Cappadona
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2001-04-17
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781579106355

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Art As Religious Studies by Douglas G. Adams,Diane Apostolos-Cappadona Pdf