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The art of the sacred : an introduction to the aesthetics of art and belief

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The field of 'art and religion' is fast becoming one of the most dynamic areas of religious studies.

Uniquely, "The Art of the Sacred" explores the relationship between religion and the visual arts - and vice versa - within Christianity and other major religious traditions.

It identifies and describes the main historical, theological, sociological and aesthetic dimensions of 'religious' art, with particular attention to 'popular' as well as 'high' culture, and within societies of the developing world.

It also attempts to locate, and predict, the forms and functions of such art in a changing contemporary context of obligation, modernity, secularism and fundamentalism.

The author concentrates on four chief dimensions where religious art and religious belief converge: the iconographic; the didactic; the institutional; and the aesthetic.

This clear, well-organised and imaginative treatment of the subject should prove especially attractive to students of religion and visual culture, as well as to artists and art historians.

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I.B. Tauris
1845110056 / 9781845110055
Laminated
201.67
24/11/2006
United Kingdom
English
224 p. : ill.
24 cm
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