Protestant Aesthetics and the Arts (Routledge Studies in Theology, Imagination and the Arts)

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Synopsis
The Reformation was one of the defining cultural turning points in Western history, even if there is a longstanding stereotype that Protestants did away with art and material culture. Rather than reject art and aestheticism, Protestants developed their own aesthetic values, which Protestant Aesthetics and the Arts addresses as it identifies and explains the link between theological aesthetics and the arts within a Protestant framework across five-hundred years of history. Featuring essays from an international gathering of leading experts working across a diverse set of disciplines, Protestant Aesthetics and the Arts is the first study of its kind, containing essays that address Protestantism and the fine arts (visual art, music, literature, and architecture), and historical and contemporary Protestant theological perspectives on the subject of beauty and imagination. Contributors challenge accepted preconceptions relating to the boundaries of theological aesthetics and religiously determined art; disrupt traditional understandings of periodization and disciplinarity; and seek to open rich avenues for new fields of research. Building on renewed interest in Protestantism in the study of religion and modernity and the return to aesthetics in Christian theological inquiry, this volume will be of significant interest to scholars of Theology, Aesthetics, Art and Architectural History, Literary Criticism, and Religious History.
Copyright:
2019

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
Book Size:
292 Pages
ISBN-13:
9780429671388
Related ISBNs:
9781032175270, 9780429001222, 9780367029050
Publisher:
Taylor and Francis
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Copyrighted By:
selection and editorial matter, Sarah Covington and Kathryn Reklis
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Nonfiction, Art and Architecture, Religion and Spirituality, Language Arts, Philosophy
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:
Sarah Covington
Edited by:
Kathryn Reklis

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