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The Oxford handbook of religion and the arts / edited by Frank Burch Brown.

Contributor(s): Brown, Frank Burch, 1948-
Material type: TextTextSeries: Oxford handbooks: Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: xx, 541 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780195176674 (hardcover : alk. paper); 0195176677 (hardcover : alk. paper)Other title: Handbook of religion and the arts | Religion and the artsSubject(s): Arts and religionDDC classification: 203/.7 LOC classification: NX180.R4 | O94 2014Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction: Mapping the Terrain of Religion and the Arts / Frank Burch Brown -- Religious aesthetics -- Aesthetics and Religion / Richard Viladesau -- Beauty and Divinity / Patrick Sherry -- The Religious Sublime / Vijay Mishra -- Artistic Imagination and Religious Faith / Gesa Elsbeth Thiessen -- Creativity at the Intersection of Art and Religion / Deborah J. Haynes -- Artistic ways of being religious -- Musical Ways of Being Religious / Frank Burch Brown -- Narrative Ways of Being Religious / David Jasper -- Poetic Ways of Being Religious / Peggy Rosenthal -- Dramatic Ways of Being Religious / Larry D. Bouchard -- Dance as a Way of Being Religious / Anne-Marie Gaston (Anjali) with Tony Gaston -- Architectural Expression and Ways of Being Religious / Richard Kieckhefer -- Visual Arts as Ways of Being Religious / Diane Apostolos-Cappadona -- Film and Video as Ways of Being Religious / Robert K. Johnston -- Religious ways of being artistic -- Judaism and Literature / Ilan Stavans -- Judaism and Music / Mark Kligman -- Judaism : Visual Art and Architecture / Edward van Voolen -- Christianity and Literature / Ralph C. Wood -- Christianity and Music / Paul Westermeyer -- Christianity and Visual Art / Graham Howes -- Islam and Literature / Tarif Khalidi -- Islam and Visual Art / Margaret S. Graves -- Islam and Music / Amnon Shiloah -- Hinduism : Aesthetics, Drama, and Poetics / Sunthar Visuvalingam -- Hinduism : Visual Art and Architecture / Jessica Frazier -- Hinduism and Music / Guy L. Beck -- Buddhism : Image as Icon, Image as Art / Charles Lachman -- Taoism and the Arts / Deborah A. Sommer -- Confucianism and the Arts / Deborah A. Sommer -- Shintō and the Arts / Sybil A. Thornton -- Artistry and Aesthetics in Modern and Postmodern Worship / Don E. Saliers -- Art, Morality, and Justice / John W. de Gruchy -- Doubt and Belief in Literature / Roger Lundin -- Iconoclasm / Mia M. Mochizuki -- Gender, Imagery, and Religious Imagination / Margaret R. Miles -- Art, Material Culture, and Lived Religion / David Morgan -- Sacred and Secular in African American Music / Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Mapping the Terrain of Religion and the Arts / Frank Burch Brown -- Part I. Religious aesthetics -- Aesthetics and Religion / Richard Viladesau -- Beauty and Divinity / Patrick Sherry -- The Religious Sublime / Vijay Mishra -- Artistic Imagination and Religious Faith / Gesa Elsbeth Thiessen -- Creativity at the Intersection of Art and Religion / Deborah J. Haynes -- Part II. Artistic ways of being religious -- Musical Ways of Being Religious / Frank Burch Brown -- Narrative Ways of Being Religious / David Jasper -- Poetic Ways of Being Religious / Peggy Rosenthal -- Dramatic Ways of Being Religious / Larry D. Bouchard -- Dance as a Way of Being Religious / Anne-Marie Gaston (Anjali) with Tony Gaston -- Architectural Expression and Ways of Being Religious / Richard Kieckhefer -- Visual Arts as Ways of Being Religious / Diane Apostolos-Cappadona -- Film and Video as Ways of Being Religious / Robert K. Johnston -- Part III. Religious ways of being artistic -- Judaism and Literature / Ilan Stavans -- Judaism and Music / Mark Kligman -- Judaism : Visual Art and Architecture / Edward van Voolen -- Christianity and Literature / Ralph C. Wood -- Christianity and Music / Paul Westermeyer -- Christianity and Visual Art / Graham Howes -- Islam and Literature / Tarif Khalidi -- Islam and Visual Art / Margaret S. Graves -- Islam and Music / Amnon Shiloah -- Hinduism : Aesthetics, Drama, and Poetics / Sunthar Visuvalingam -- Hinduism : Visual Art and Architecture / Jessica Frazier -- Hinduism and Music / Guy L. Beck -- Buddhism : Image as Icon, Image as Art / Charles Lachman -- Taoism and the Arts / Deborah A. Sommer -- Confucianism and the Arts / Deborah A. Sommer -- Shintō and the Arts / Sybil A. Thornton -- Part IV. Issues and themes -- Artistry and Aesthetics in Modern and Postmodern Worship / Don E. Saliers -- Art, Morality, and Justice / John W. de Gruchy -- Doubt and Belief in Literature / Roger Lundin -- Iconoclasm / Mia M. Mochizuki -- Gender, Imagery, and Religious Imagination / Margaret R. Miles -- Art, Material Culture, and Lived Religion / David Morgan -- Sacred and Secular in African American Music / Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan.

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