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The Art of the Sacred. An Introduction to the Aesthetics of Art and Belief

By Graham Howes

Book information

Publisher
I. B. Tauris & Co. Ltd.
Year
2007
ISBN
9781845110062, 1845110064
Open Library ID
OL22743892M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (1611435 bytes)
Pages
207\207
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07
Философские дисциплины;Этика и эстетика;Эстетика

Description

This book 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

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