The Bloomsbury handbook of the cultural and cognitive aesthetics of religion / edited by Anne Koch and Katharina Wilkens.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Koch, Anne, 1971- editor.

Wilkens, Katharina, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aesthetics--Religious aspects.

Aesthetics.

Religion and culture.

Genre:

Handbooks and manuals.

Physical Description:

xvii, 354 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.

Contents:

Part I. Approach. A historiography of aesthetics in a Western context / Jay Johnston

Epistemology / Anne Koch

Aesthetics of knowledge / Arianna Borrelli and Alexandra Grieser

Methodology / Jens Kreinath

Part II. Analytical categories. Imagination / Lucia Traut and Anne Wahl

Ritual / Jesper Sørensen

Absorption / T. M. Luhrmann

Aniconicity and aniconism / Mikael Aktor

Sonality / Annette Wilke

Museality / Jens Kugele

Part III. Strategies of aesthetic formations. Sensory strategies / Hubert Mohr

Narrative strategies / Dirk Johannsen and Anja Kirsch

Text acts / Katharina Wilkens

Embodiment through comics / Chris Klassen

Gendered performativity / Shaireen Rasheed

Art / Jay Johnston

Cinesthetics / Adrian Hermann and Yulia Lokshina

Part IV. Aestheticscapes. Cult images / Brigitte Luchesi

Smell as communication / Esther-Maria Guggenmos

Sensing and painting knowledge / Isabel Laack

Protestant (an)aesthetics / Robert A. Yelle

Aesthetics of the ugly / Constanze Pabst von Ohain

Aesthetics of the secular / Stefan Binder

Aesthetics of spirits / Peter J. Bräunlein

Part V. Aesthetics of religion in the classroom. Teaching aesthetics of religion / Isabel Laack and Petra Tillessen with contributions by Peter J. Bräunlein, Annalisa Buttici, Anne Koch, and Brigitte Luchesi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350066717

1350066710

OCLC:

1055684456

Publisher Number:

99982340450