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ISBN 10: 0838755348

ISBN 13: 978-0838755341 

Author: Eric Michael Mazur 

This collection explores the relationship between religion and arts and challenges presumptions held in society about these two fields. Topics covered include church architecture, folk art, nineteenth-century classical music, contemporary fiction, recent film, performance art, and the battles over public funding of the arts. The essays also explore the religious impulse in contemporary society and argue that, while the religious impulse has become deinstitutionalized, it has suffered no significant diminution of importance. This leads to two conclusions. First, in such an environment, the investigation of religion can no longer be limited to institutional settings but must include all aspects of human activity. Second, it explains how seemingly secular forms of human expression can be viewed as religious threats to traditional religious worldviews. If religion in contemporary society is to be understood at all, it must be explored in all aspects of human activity -- including the arts.

Table of contents:

1. Notes on Contributors

2. Introduction: A Religious Studies Approach to Religion and the Arts

3. Religion and the Arts

4. How to Read a Church

5. Textures of a Religious Life: The Vernacular Religious Art of Sister Ann Ameen

6. "And Art Shall Say, 'Let There Be Light'": Religious Imagery and the Nineteenth-Century Musical Imagination

7. Rebuilding Babel: Science, Fiction, and a New Divinity

8. "I'd Rather Light a Candle Than Curse Your Darkness": Bringing Religion to Light in Raising Arizona

9. The Art of Idolatry: Violent Expressions of the Spiritual in Contemporary Performance Art

10. Symbolic Politics: Public Funding of the Arts

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