Aesthetics of religion a connective concept / edited by Alexandra K. Grieser and Jay Johnston.
| Other author | Grieser, Alexandra, 1965- |
| Other author | Johnston, Jay. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Berlin : De Gruyter, [2017] |
| Description | xi, 497 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
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| Series | Religion and reason, 0080-0848 ; Band 58 Religion and reason ; Band 58. ^A192895 |
| Contents | What is an aesthetics of religion? : from the senses to meaning--and back again / Alexandra Grieser and Jay Johnston -- Part I. Fields and topics -- Grasping the formless in stones: the petromorphic gods of the Hindu Pañcāyatanapūjā / Mikael Aktor -- Religion, literature, and the aesthetics of expressionism / John T. Hamilton and Almut-Barbara Renger -- Screening the father of lights : documentary film and the aesthetics of the nonfictional in contemporary religion / Adrian Hermann -- The literary aesthetics of religious narratives : probing literary-aesthetic form, emotion, and sensory effects in Exodus 7-11 / Laura Feldt -- Part II. History and politics -- Below the horizon of meaning : figuration, disfiguration, transfiguration / Niklaus Largier -- The performative knowledge of ecstasy : Jane E. Harrison's (1850-1928) early contestations of the textual paradigm in religious studies / Ulrike Brunotte -- What does a reformed city look like? : changes in visible religion during the Reformation in Bremen / Christoph Auffarth -- Standing, not walking : the hieratic as a key term of an anthropologically based aesthetics of religion / Hubert Mohr -- Part III. Comparison and transfer -- Blue brains : aesthetic ideologies and the formation of knowledge between religion and science / Alexandra Grieser -- Aesthetic dimensions and transformative dynamics of mimetic acts : the veneration of Habib-i Neccar among Muslims and Christians in Antakya, Turkey / Jens Kreinath -- Aestheticisation and the production of (religious) space in Chennai / Maruška Svašek -- Moving religion by sound : on the effectiveness of the Nāda-Brahman in India and modern Europe / Annette Wilke -- Part IV. Concepts and theories -- Esoteric aesthetics : the spiritual matter of intersubjective encounter / Jay Johnston -- Aesthetics of immersion : collective effervescence, bodily synchronisation and the sensory navigation of the sacred / Sebastian Schüler -- The governance of aesthetic subjects through body knowledge and affect economies : a cognitive-aesthetic approach / Anne Koch -- Religion in the flesh : non-reductive materialism and the ecological aesthetics of religion / Manuel A. Vásquez -- Part V. In conversation : essays about the connectivity of an aesthetics of religion -- Subjects and sense-making / Fred Cummins -- Consumer culture and the sensory remodelling of religion / François Gauthier -- Social aesthetics, atmosphere and proprioception / Frank Heidermann -- Semiotics and aesthetics : historical and structural connections / Robert Yelle -- The artificiality of aesthetics : making connections on the Erie Canal / S. Brent Plate. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2018286504 |
| ISBN | 9783110458756 (hardbound) |
| ISBN | 3110458756 (hardbound) |
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