Bridging the gap between cognition and culture, this handbook explores both social scientific and humanities approaches to understanding the physical processes of religious life, tradition, practice, and belief. It reflects the cultural turn within the study of religion and puts theory to the fore, moving beyond traditional theological, philosophical, and ethnographic understandings of the aesthetics of religion.
Editors Anne Koch and Katharina Wilkens bring together research in cultural studies, cognitive studies, material religion, religion and the arts, and epistemology. Questions of identity, gender, ethnicity, and postcolonialism are discussed throughout. Key topics include materiality, embodiment, performance, popular/vernacular art and space to move beyond a sensory understanding of aesthetics. Emerging areas of research are covered, including secular aesthetics and the aesthetic of spirits.
This is an important contribution to theory and method in the study of religion, and is grounded in research that has been taking place in Europe over the past 20 years. Case studies are drawn from around the world with contributions from scholars based in Europe, the USA, and Australia. The book is illustrated with over 40 color images and features a foreword from Birgit Meyer.
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The Bloomsbury Handbook of the Cultural and Cognitive Aesthetics of Religion
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- Notes on Contributors
- Foreword by Birgit Meyer
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- Part I: Approach
- 2 A Historiography of Aesthetics in a Western Context
- 3 Epistemology
- 4 Aesthetics of Knowledge
- 5 Methodology
- Part II: Analytical Categories
- 6 Imagination
- 7 Ritual
- 8 Absorption
- 9 Aniconicity and Aniconism
- 10 Sonality
- 11 Museality
- Part III: Strategies of Aesthetic Formations
- 12 Sensory Strategies
- 13 Narrative Strategies
- 14 Text Acts
- 15 Embodiment through Comics
- 16 Gendered Performativity
- 17 Art
- 18 Cinesthetics
- Part IV: Aestheticscapes
- 19 Cult Images
- 20 Smell as Communication
- 21 Sensing and Painting Knowledge
- 22 Protestant (An)aesthetics
- 23 Aesthetics of the Ugly
- 24 Aesthetics of the Secular
- 25 Aesthetics of Spirits
- Part V: Aesthetics of Religion in the Classroom
- 26 Teaching Aesthetics of Religion
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Copyright
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