04485nam 2200937 450 991081981150332120200520144314.00-8232-5741-X0-8232-5739-80-8232-5742-80-8232-6153-00-8232-5740-110.1515/9780823257423(CKB)3710000000094275(EBL)3239880(SSID)ssj0001136287(PQKBManifestationID)12436672(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001136287(PQKBWorkID)11104736(PQKB)11349457(StDuBDS)EDZ0000985665(MiAaPQ)EBC3239880(DE-B1597)555249(DE-B1597)9780823257423(OCoLC)878144395(MdBmJHUP)muse58928(MiAaPQ)EBC1728014(Au-PeEL)EBL3239880(CaPaEBR)ebr10852124(CaONFJC)MIL727783(Au-PeEL)EBL1728014(OCoLC)908079864(dli)HEB32732(MiU) MIU01100000000000000000380(EXLCZ)99371000000009427520140331h20142014 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrTastes of the divine Hindu and Christian theologies of emotion /Michelle Voss RobertsFirst edition.New York :Fordham University Press,2014.©20141 online resource (296 p.)Comparative Theology: Thinking Across TraditionsDescription based upon print version of record.1-322-96501-3 0-8232-5738-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --CONTENTS --ABBREVIATIONS --SANSKRIT PRONUNCIATION GUIDE --PREFACE --ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --Introduction: RASA --1. The Bliss of Peace --2. Suffering and Peace --3. The Rasa of Love Incarnate --4. A Dilemma of Feeling --5. Love, Bodies, and Others --6. Dalit Arts and the Failure of Aesthetics --7. Fury as a Religious Sentiment --8. Toward a Holistic Theology of the Emotions --9. Wonder --NOTES --Glossary of Sanskrit Terms --Bibliography --IndexThe intensity and meaningfulness of aesthetic experience have often been described in theological terms. By designating basic human emotions as rasa, a word that connotes taste, flavor, or essence, Indian aesthetic theory conceptualizes emotional states as something to be savored. At their core, emotions can be tastes of the divine. In this book, the methods of the emerging discipline of comparative theology enable the author’s appreciation of Hindu texts and practices to illuminate her Christian reflections on aesthetics and emotion. Three emotions vie for prominence in the religious sphere: peace, love, and fury. Whereas Indian theorists following Abhinavagupta claim that the aesthetic emotion of peace best approximates the goal of religious experience, devotees of Krishna and medieval Christian readings of the Song of Songs argue that love communicates most powerfully with divinity. In response to the transcendence emphasized in both approaches, the book turns to fury at injustice to attend to emotion’s foundations in the material realm. The implications of this constructive theology of emotion for Christian liturgy, pastoral care, and social engagement are manifold.Comparative theology--thinking across traditions.Christianity and other religionsHinduismHinduismRelationsChristianityEmotionsReligious aspectsRasasAbhinavagupta.Aesthetics.Bernard of Clairvaux.Comparative Theology.Emotions.Gaudiya Vaisnavism.Indian Christianity.Jyoti Sahi.Liberation theology.Rasa.Christianity and other religionsHinduism.HinduismRelationsChristianity.EmotionsReligious aspects.Rasas.204/.2Voss Roberts Michelle1015615MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910819811503321Tastes of the divine2372265UNINA