LEADER 05980nam 2200565 450 001 9910808560303321 005 20230809231306.0 010 $a3-11-046045-9 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110461015 035 $a(CKB)4100000001502363 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5156698 035 $a(DE-B1597)461750 035 $a(OCoLC)1020026114 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110461015 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL5156698 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11497564 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000001502363 100 $a20180206h20172017 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 00$aAesthetics of religion $ea connective concept /$fedited by Alexandra K. Grieser and Jay Johnston 210 1$aBerlin, [Germany] ;$aBoston, [Massachusetts] :$cDe Gruyter,$d2017. 210 4$d©2017 215 $a1 online resource (512 pages) 225 1 $aReligion and Reason ;$vBand 58 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a3-11-045875-6 311 $a3-11-046101-3 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tForeword -- $tTable of Contents -- $tWhat is an Aesthetics of Religion? From the Senses to Meaning-and Back Again / $rGrieser, Alexandra / Johnston, Jay -- $tList of Figures -- $tPART I. Fields and Topics -- $tGrasping the Formless in Stones: The Petromorphic Gods of the Hindu Pañc?yatanap?j? / $rAktor, Mikael -- $tReligion, Literature, and the Aesthetics of Expressionism / $rHamilton, John T. / Renger, Almut-Barbara -- $tScreening the Father of Lights: Documentary Film and the Aesthetics of the Nonfictional in Contemporary Religion / $rHermann, Adrian -- $tThe Literary Aesthetics of Religious Narratives: Probing Literary-Aesthetic Form, Emotion, and Sensory Effects in Exodus 7-11 / $rFeldt, Laura -- $tPART II. History and Politics -- $tBelow the Horizon of Meaning: Figuration, Disfiguration, Transfiguration / $rLargier, Niklaus -- $tThe Performative Knowledge of Ecstasy: Jane E. Harrison's (1850-1928) Early Contestations of the Textual Paradigm in Religious Studies / $rBrunotte, Ulrike -- $tWhat Does a Reformed City Look Like? - Changes in Visible Religion During the Reformation in Bremen / $rAuffarth, Christoph -- $tStanding, Not Walking - The Hieratic as a Key Term of an Anthropologically Based Aesthetics of Religion / $rMohr, Hubert -- $tPART III. Comparison and Transfer -- $tBlue Brains: Aesthetic Ideologies and the Formation of Knowledge Between Religion and Science / $rGrieser, Alexandra -- $tAesthetic Dimensions and Transformative Dynamics of Mimetic Acts: The Veneration of Habib-i Neccar Among Muslims and Christians in Antakya, Turkey / $rKreinath, Jens -- $tAestheticisation and the Production of (Religious) Space in Chennai / $rSva?ek, Maru?ka -- $tMoving Religion by Sound: On the Effectiveness of the N?da-Brahman in India and Modern Europe / $rWilke, Annette -- $tPART IV. Concepts and Theories -- $tEsoteric Aesthetics: The Spiritual Matter of Intersubjective Encounter / $rJohnston, Jay -- $tAesthetics of Immersion: Collective Effervescence, Bodily Synchronisation and the Sensory Navigation of the Sacred / $rSchüler, Sebastian -- $tThe Governance of Aesthetic Subjects Through Body Knowledge and Affect Economies. A Cognitive-Aesthetic Approach / $rKoch, Anne -- $tReligion in the Flesh: Non-Reductive Materialism and the Ecological Aesthetics of Religion / $rVásquez, Manuel A. -- $tPART V. In Conversation: Essays About the Connectivity of an Aesthetics of Religion -- $tSubjects and Sense-Making / $rCummins, Fred -- $tConsumer Culture and the Sensory Remodelling of Religion / $rGauthier, François -- $tSocial Aesthetics, Atmosphere and Proprioception / $rHeidemann, Frank -- $tSemiotics and Aesthetics: Historical and Structural Connections / $rYelle, Robert -- $tThe Artificiality of Aesthetics: Making Connections on the Erie Canal / $rPlate, S. Brent -- $tAuthors Biographies -- $tIndex 330 $aThis volume is the first English language presentation of the innovative approaches developed in the aesthetics of religion. The chapters present diverse material and detailed analysis on descriptive, methodological and theoretical concepts that together explore the potential of an aesthetic approach for investigating religion as a sensory and mediated practice. In dialogue with, yet different from, other major movements in the field (material culture, anthropology of the senses, for instance), it is the specific intent of this approach to create a framework for understanding the interplay between sensory, cognitive and socio-cultural aspects of world-construction. The volume demonstrates that aesthetics, as a theory of sensory knowledge, offers an elaborate repertoire of concepts that can help to understand religious traditions. These approaches take into account contemporary developments in scientific theories of perception, neuro-aesthetics and cultural studies, highlighting the socio-cultural and political context informing how humans perceive themselves and the world around them. Developing since the 1990s, the aesthetic approach has responded to debates in the study of religion, in particular striving to overcome biased categories that confined religion either to texts and abstract beliefs, or to an indisputable sui generis mode of experience. 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