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Pennsylvania State University Press Saint George Between Empires
Book SynopsisExamines the image networks of St. George in the eastern Mediterranean, revealing how the different portrayals became central to Crusader, East Christian, and Islamic visual cultures.Trade Review“This panoramic volume follows the images of military saints across Armenian, Byzantine, Coptic, Crusader, Georgian, Islamic, Syriac, and many other fields of study usually held separate. Badamo ties together the fragmented political map of the later medieval eastern Mediterranean in unexpected ways that cause us to rethink broader questions of global art and history.”—Benjamin Anderson,Cornell University“Saint George Between Empires particularly excels in highlighting the importance of Saint George / al-Khiḍr in both Christian and Islamic contexts, and is by far the most all-encompassing study on this subject.”—Dr. Mat Immerzeel,Fellow International Studies, Leiden University
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The University of Chicago Press Likeness and Presence
Book SynopsisBefore the Renaissance and Reformation, holy images were treated not as "art" but as objects of veneration which possessed the tangible presence of the "Holy", Hans Belting traces in this volume the long history of the sacral image and its changing role in European culture.
£57.00
Last Gasp,U.S. 100 Artists See Satan
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Harvard University Press Sassetta
Book SynopsisSassetta, the subtle genius from Siena, revolutionized Italian painting with an altarpiece for the small Tuscan town of Borgo San Sepolcro in 1437–1444. This book solves the three-dimensional jigsaw puzzle of this masterwork’s reconstruction and, on a firm scientific foundation, restores it to its vivid historical context.Trade ReviewAdmirers of the richness, seductive accents and elusive beauty of the paintings of Stefano di Giovanni, known as il Sassetta (1392–1450/51), will be delighted by the extraordinary, indeed exhaustive depth of this two-volume study devoted to the polyptych once to be seen on the high altar of the church of S. Francesco in Borgo San Sepolcro, painted between 1437 and 1444. -- Jennifer Sliwka * The Burlington Magazine *Sassetta was the leading painter in Siena in the early fifteenth century and the altarpiece he made for the Franciscan church in the town of Borgo San Sepolcro was one of the biggest altarpieces of the Renaissance, about twenty feet tall and fifteen feet wide. For the last hundred years, this painting has inspired research on the character of Sienese art, and it is now the subject of a beautiful new study in two volumes, Sassetta: The Borgo San Sepolcro Altarpiece. Everything about the book is impressive, from the quality of its printing to the number of people involved in its writing. Led by the brilliant scholar Machtelt Israëls, more than forty experts contributed to the book; and at 636 pages and 435 color illustrations, it is one of the most comprehensive monographs ever written on a single work of Renaissance painting. -- Andrew Butterfield * New York Review of Books *Monumental, immaculately produced volumes...They represent arguably the most exhaustive study of a single altarpiece ever undertaken, and are...both a supreme triumph and a spectacular demonstration of the value of collaborative and interdisciplinary research...In spite of the fact that we already know so much about the altarpiece and its commission, the various authors of this book most definitely do not agree on everything--for all the exquisite good manners on display, the knives are unmistakeably out. Of course, this is as it should be, but is also refreshingly unusual in a world where spineless agreement is all too often the order of the day. What makes the killer footnotes so entertaining here is the way contributors refer to the conflicting arguments of other scholars within these pages precisely in order to explain that they have not been persuaded by them to change their minds...The editorial and literary standards of a publication which necessarily involved a number of contributors whose first language is not English are remarkably high. -- David Ekserdjian * Apollo *
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Aarhus University Press Making and Breaking the Gods: Christian Responses
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GINGKO The Image Debate: Figural representation in Islam
Book SynopsisThe images released by Islamic State of militants smashing statues at ancient sites were a horrifying aspect of their advance across Northern Iraq and Syria during 2015-16. Their leaders justified this iconoclasm (destruction of images) by arguing that such actions were divinely decreed in Islam, a notion that has remained fixed in the public consciousness. The Image Debate: Figural Representation in Islam and Across the World is a collection of thirteen essays which examine the controversy surrounding the use of images in Islamic and other religious cultures and seek to redress some of the misunderstandings that have arisen. Written by leading academics from the United States, Australia, Turkey, Israel and the United Kingdom, the book has a foreword by Stefano Carboni, Director of the Art Gallery of Western Australia, followed by an introduction by the editor Christiane Gruber, who sets the subject in context with a detailed examination of the debates over idols and the production of figural images in Islamic traditions. Twelve further articles are divided into three sections: the first deals with pre-modern Islam: Mika Natif looks at tensions between the Hadith prohibition on images and the praxis of image-making under the Umayyad dynasty and argues that the Umayyad rulers used imagery to establish their political and religious authority; Finbarr Barry Flood examines the practice of epigraphic erasure, i.e., the removal of names of rulers and patrons from historical inscriptions from the medieval Islamic world; and Oya Pancaroglu focuses on the figural conventions of an illustrated manuscript of Varqa and Gulshah, a medieval Persian romance composed in the masnavi (rhyming couplet) form by the 11th-century poet `Ayyuqi. The second section addresses the situation outside Islam: Alicia Walker surveys attitudes toward the production and veneration of religious images in Byzantium from the earliest years of the Christian Roman Empire (early 4th century) to the aftermath of the Iconoclast controversy (late 9th century); Steven Fine explores the history of Jewish engagement with `art' from Roman antiquity through the high middle ages through a detailed exploration of the 3rd-century Dura Europos synagogue and its wall paintings; Michael Shenkar examines evidence for the employment of figural images in the cultic practices of some of the major ancient Iranian cultural and political entities, offering a broad perspective on perceptions of images in ancient Iranian worship; and Robert DeCaroli delves into the question of why no image of the Buddha was made during the first five hundred years of Buddhism. The third section brings the reader back to Islamic lands with five articles examining aspects of the issue in the modern and contemporary periods: Yousuf Saaed investigates South Asian mass-produced images, especially posters that include illustrations of local Sufi shrines, portraits of saints and Shi`i iconography; James Bennett explores the visual depiction of Javanese shadow puppets (wayang kulit), including the sage Begawan Abiyasa, whose narratives convey key elements of Sufi mystical philosophy; Allen and Mary Roberts consider images of Cheikh Amadu Bamba, the founding Sufi saint of the Senegalese Mouride order; Rose Issa addresses how the term `Islamic' relates to contemporary art, how artists manage to create work in countries in constant turmoil and to what extent such works reflect their conceptual, aesthetic, and socio-political concerns; and finally Shiva Balaghi traces the use of the figure, along its symbolic shadows and silhouettes, in works by notable Iranian artists living in Iran and in diaspora.
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Getty Trust Publications The Dawn of Christian Art - In Panel Painings and
Book SynopsisStaking out new territory in the history of art, this book presents a compelling argument for a lost link between the panel-painting tradition of Greek antiquity and Christian paintings of Byzantium and the Renaissance. While art historians place the origin of icons in the seventh century, Thomas F. Mathews finds strong evidence as early as the second century in the texts of Irenaeus and the Acts of John that describe private Christian worship. In closely studying an obscure set of sixty neglected panel paintings from Egypt in Roman times, the author explains how these paintings of the Egyptian gods offer the missing link in the long history of religious painting. Christian panel paintings and icons are for the first time placed in a continuum with the pagan paintings that preceded them, sharing elements of iconography, technology, and religious usages as votive offerings.Exciting discoveries punctuate the narrative: the technology of the triptych, enormously popular in Europe, traced by the authors to the construction of Egyptian portable shrines, such as the Isis and Serapis of the J. Paul Getty Museum; the discovery that the egg tempera painting medium, usually credited to Renaissance artistCimabue, has been identified in Egyptian panels a millennium earlier; and the reconstruction of a ring of icons on the chancel of Saint Sophia in Istanbul.This book will be a vital addition to the fields ofEgyptian, Greco-Roman, and late antique art history and, more generally, to the history of painting.Trade Review"Essential."--Apollo "Thomas Mathews and Norman Muller offer a radical alternative picture, based on years of research."--Times Literary Supplement
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Zondervan New Mercies I See
Book SynopsisWe live in an ever-increasingly complex world, but refreshment waits for you within these pages. Escape the anxiety—the let-downs, the distractions, the chaos—and color your way toward a quiet soul.Escape the stress of daily life and color your way toward quietness and strength. Even in our hectic world, God''s mercy and faithfulness are available. Slow down with this attractive, Bible-based adult coloring book and let God''s mercy and goodness renew your soul.With more than 90 pages of unique patterns and inspiring selections of Scripture and quotations alongside original illustrations from author and artist Jennifer Tucker, New Mercies I See invites you to turn down the volume, be still, and relax in God''s goodness. A beautiful way to relieve anxiety and treat yourself to the vital practice of self-care, this exquisitely designed adult coloring book features: 96 single-sided pages of art and inspiring text A la
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Grupo Nelson Un Experimento de Crítica Literaria
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Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers Ltd Cathedral Treasures of England and Wales: Deans'
Book Synopsis"Curiously few people think of Britain’s cathedrals as being among our most impressive museums. This book should change that." — The Telegraph The cathedrals of England and Wales are remarkable buildings. From the centuries leading up to the Norman Conquest to the tumults of the Reformation to the devastating wars of the 20th century, they carry traces of our nations’ darkest moments and most brilliant endeavours. This beautifully illustrated new volume tells the stories behind 50 remarkable artefacts – one for each cathedral – that have been preserved by the cathedrals of the Church of England and the Church in Wales. Featuring the Magna Carta of Salisbury Cathedral as well as the oldest book of English literature in the world, an Anglo-Saxon portable sundial, and Pre-Raphaelite glass, painting and embroidery, these local and national treasures are a vital part of our heritage, testifying to the powerful and enduring links between cathedrals and the wider communities of which they are part. Trade Review"Curiously few people think of Britain’s cathedrals as being among our most impressive museums. This book should change that." - The Telegraph"The booklet Cathedral treasures of England and Wales is richly illustrated and that makes it a pleasure to read." [Translated via Google Translate from original Dutch] - Bazarow
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Not Stated Cathedrals
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The University of North Carolina Press The Thing about Religion An Introduction to the
Book SynopsisLays out a range of theories, terms, and concepts and shows how they work together to centre materiality in the study of religion. Integrating carefully curated visual evidence, Morgan applies these ideas and methods to case studies across a variety of religious traditions, modeling step-by-step analysis and emphasizing historical context.
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Amazon Digital Services LLC - Kdp Pedagogía de la Pasión
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Thomas Nelson Publishers NKJV Personal Size Reference Bible Sovereign
Book SynopsisThis elegant Bible edition honors the beauty and richness of the New King James Version in a convenient portable size with essential study tools and traditional red-letter text for the Words of Christ.The New King James Version in the Sovereign Collection reflects the legacy and majesty of the King James Version Bible produced more than 400 years ago, but in language updated for today. This beautiful Bible, which contains design flourishes that pay tribute to the Bible produced in 1611, comes in a convenient portable size with essential study tools and traditional red-letter text for the Words of Christ.The Sovereign Collection continues Thomas Nelson''s long history and stewardship publishing Bibles, featuring elegant letter illustrations leading into each chapter combined with clear and readable Comfort Print®, connects you to the legacy of faith, and inspires your time in the Word to be enjoyable and fruitful.Features i
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Cambridge University Press Is God Invisible
Book SynopsisIn this volume, Charles Taliaferro and Jil Evans promote aesthetic personalism by examining three domains of aesthetics - the philosophy of beauty, aesthetic experience, and philosophy of art - through the lens of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, theistic Hinduism, and the all-seeing Compassionate Buddha. These religious traditions assume an inclusive, overarching God''s eye, or ideal point of view, that can create an emancipatory appreciation of beauty and goodness. This appreciation also recognizes the reality and value of the aesthetic experience of persons and deepens the experience of art works. The authors also explore and contrast the invisibility of persons and God. The belief that God or the sacred is invisible does not mean God or the sacred cannot be experienced through visual and other sensory or unique modes. Conversely, the assumption that human persons are thoroughly visible, or observable in all respects, ignores how racism and other forms of bias render persons invisible Trade Review'The theme of this book is unusual and important, and is impressive in its combination of art, philosophy, and religion. Readable, attractive, and interesting, it is an excellent contribution by major scholars to this series.' Keith Ward, University of Roehampton and Christ Church College, Oxford University'Rich, inventive and multi-layered, Is God Invisible brims with ideas and insights drawn from philosophy and several religious traditions. The comparison between the invisiblility and visibility of God in the world and our own visibility and invisibility to each other through our personal embodiment is highly suggestive. The subsequent discussion of the way works of art can reveal our values and minds, including aspects of a time or culture which, though evident to an all-seeing God, may be hidden to us, is interesting. In sum, a book which will repay study and reflection on many levels.' Anthony O'Hear, University of Buckingham'This engaging book reflects conversations between the authors - an artist and a philosopher - and with others who offer alternative proposals. A prodigious amount and quality of research establishes the authors' claim that a 'God's eye view,' the 'view from everywhere,' is central to five world religions and secular naturalism, establishing an intimate connection, 'an aesthetic personalism,' at the core of aesthetic and religious experience. Is God Invisible? demonstrates that thinking that God is not a visual object 'does not preclude the idea that God is manifested in visual and other modes of experience.' For the reader, the take-away is enriched and integrated experience that heals the Western tendency to distinguish and thus, in effect to separate religious and aesthetic experience.' Margaret Miles, Emerita Professor of the History of Christianity The Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley'What does it mean to describe God as invisible? How does this relate to God's transcendence? And in what sense, if any, can God be manifested in experience? Taliaferro and Evans offer an important, timely, and original contribution to these pressing questions, writing with erudition, enthusiasm, and depth, and engaging with a huge variety of thinkers and artists who have engaged with the relevant issues. Their approach is truly interdisciplinary, it cuts across the supposed distinction between analytic and continental philosophy, and it offers a compelling framework in terms of which to comprehend the relation between self and God. This remarkable book is a must-read for anyone interested in philosophy of religion, theology, aesthetics, and the question of life's meaning.' Fiona Ellis, University of Roehampton'This book offers valuable conceptual resources to challenge the idea that secular worlds are (at least) equal in truth and value to religious worlds.' Clare Carlisle, Times Literary Supplement'This is an important and creative work which suggests fresh ways to think about how the invisible - whether human or divine persons - can be encountered through what is seen.' Harold A. Netland, Religious Studies Review'… the book is a worthwhile project and repays reading, it is both refreshing to have so many insights brought together and very worthwhile to consider the big picture the authors offer.' Mikołaj Sławkowski-Rode, The Philosophical QuarterlyTable of ContentsIntroduction: The View from Everywhere; 1. Aesthetic Personalism; 2. Is God Invisible?; 3. The Gates of Perception; 4. The Perception of Gates; 5. The Beautiful Gate; 6. Revealing and Concealing; 7. Public Perception of Religious and Art Objects; 8. A Personal Guide to the Aesthetic Experience of Works of Art; Epilogue.
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University of Alberta Press Locating the Past Discovering the Present
Book SynopsisComparative, interdisciplinary examination of the production of religious ideas and images over time and place.Trade Review"The book's papers focus on religious ideas, images, practices and articulations which have not been an essential part of the theological discipline and studies of religious life.. Thus, [the book] essentially problematises the centre whilst looking at the context of the margins.. The book's underlying theoretical focus is excellently laid in the introduction, which binds the different chapters together while providing a conceptual discussion of the term, marginality.. Gay and Reimer should be commended for editing a diverse and eye-opening collection, providing critical discussions and probing into connections and influences which had remained largely marginal thus far.. This book is an important intervention in many discourses as well as an original and interesting read." Dana N. Mills, Literature and Theology, [Full review at doi:10.1093/litthe/]"Authors come at the topic of marginality from a number of directions, making use of theories from continental philosophy to historiography. There is explicitly no overarching definition or understanding of 'marginality' as such, meaning that each author grapples with the concept on his/her own terms and in light of his/her own case study. Beyond marginality, authors take up themes that range from subjectivity and agency to memory and orthodoxy. Standout pieces include David Gay's '' 'The Writing on the Wall': Rembrandt, Milton, and Menasseh ben Israel in Ken McMullen's R'' and Eva Maria Räpple's ''The Seductive Serpent.''.... This volume is a good purchase for libraries or institutions." Airen Hall, Syracuse University, The Journal of Religion and Popular Culture, Fall 2011 [doi:10.3138/jrpc.23.3.415]
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Cambridge University Press Cambridge KJV Family Chronicle Bible Brown Calfskin Leather Over Boards Limited Numbered Edition
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Cambridge University Press KJV Family Bible with Engravings by Gustav Doré
Book SynopsisBringing together the best in typographic design, printing and bookbinding. The KJV text is printed in a setting based on the 1763 Baskerville Bible, illustrated with engravings by 19th century artist Gustave Doré. There is an extensive family chronicle. The Bible is bound in black calfskin leather and features gold blocking and raised spine hubs.
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Cambridge University Press Cambridge KJV Family Chronicle Bible Blue Hb Cloth Over Boards
Book SynopsisBringing together the best in typographic design, printing and bookbinding. The KJV text is printed in a setting based on the 1763 Baskerville Bible, illustrated with engravings by artist Gustave Doré. There is an extensive family chronicle. The Bible is bound in cloth and features the stunning 'fire and water' detail of one of Doré's woodcuts.
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Shambhala Publications Inc The Art of Buddhism: An Introduction to Its
Book SynopsisAs its teachings spread from the Indian subcontinent in all directions across Asia, Buddhism influenced every culture it touched—from Afghanistan to Korea, from Mongolia to Java. Buddhist art is a radiant reflection of the encounter of the Buddha’s teachings with the diverse civilizations that came under their sway. It is also an intriguing visual record of the evolution of Buddhist practice and philosophy over a period of more than two millennia. More than two hundred photographs provide the visual context for this tour of the world of Buddhist art. Included in the rich variety of forms are architecture and monumental art, statuary, paintings, calligraphy, fresco, brushwork, and textile arts. Denise Leidy’s guide is the perfect introductory text for all those intrigued by this splendid aesthetic tradition. It also an essential resource for all who seek to understand Buddhist art as teaching.
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Goose Lane Editions I Am Herod
Book SynopsisShortlisted, Wilfrid Eggleston Award for NonfictionOn a whim, armchair-atheist Richard Kelly Kemick joins the 100-plus cast of The Canadian Badlands Passion Play, North America's largest production of its kind and one of the main tourist attractions in Alberta. By the time closing night is over, Kemick has a story to tell. From the controversial choice of casting to the bizarre life in rehearsal, this glorious behind-the-scenes look at one of Canada's strangest theatrical spectacles also confronts the role of religion in contemporary life and the void left by its absence for non-believers.In the tradition of tragic luminaries such as David Foster Wallace, Jonathan Goldstein, and David Sedaris, I Am Herod gives its congregation of readers unparalleled access to the players of the Passion: there's Judas, who wears a leather jacket even when it's 30°C; the Chief Sadducee, who is ostracized for his fanaticism; Pilate, the only actor who swears; the Holy Spirit, who is breaking ground as the role's first female actor; and the understudy Christ, the previous year's real-deal Christ who was demoted to backup and now performs illicit one-man shows backstage.Trade Review"Kemick's book is that delicious cross between Waiting for Guffman and The Studhorse Man, a rousing personal comedy that dances between the sweat of art and the glue of experience. Nothing like it exists in non-fiction, but don't read it for that reason. Read it because it sticks to your fingers and you can't shake it off." -- Dave Bidini, author of Midnight Light: A Personal Journey to The North"In the end, I Am Herod is a very funny book with an underlying pathos and sweetness which I found quite moving." * Atlantic Books Today *
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Museum of New Mexico Press (Red Crane Books) Land So Remote: Slipcased Edition
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Nomad Publishing The Cross: Meditations and Images
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Sansom & Co The Holy Box
Book SynopsisHistory of the building of the Sandham War Memorial Chapel, Burghclere and the art of the murals inside, painted by war artist Stanley Spencer
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ATF Press Sr Wendy Becket and Fr Kim En Joong: In Her
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Hatje Cantz Being Jain: Art and Culture of an Indian Religion
Book SynopsisAfter almost 50 years, Jainism is set to return to the Rietberg Museum in an exhibition that offers a new take on the religion. The catalogue will show works from the museum’s own collection and loans from India including lavishly illuminated manuscripts and imposing sculptures that reveal Jain ideas and ideals that evolved over many centuries. The catalogue also examines contemporary practices among this small, but economically influential religious community that is found around the world, yet is hardly known outside India. Furthermore, the catalogue will explore the contribution that the living tradition of Jainism with its long and varied history can make to resolve the fundamental challenges the world faces today: climate change, rampant consumerism, ethnic and religious intolerance, and social inequality. Combining masterpieces of Jain art and short films on Jain practices as well as discussions with Jains from all spheres of life – religious leaders and laypersons active in business, culture, and politics – this catalogue promises insights into the particular lifestyle fostered by Jainism. Visitors are encouraged to engage with new ideas, reflections, and discussions about what good, healthy, and sustainable living can look like.
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Vitasta Publishing Devicraft
Book SynopsisWe celebrate women artisans particularly in a bid to preserve our cultural heritages and make it empowering in the days ahead.
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Motilal Banarsidass, The Hindu Temple: Pt. 1 & 2
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Motilal Banarsidass, The Mystery of Art
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Museum Tusculanum Press Liturgy & the Arts in the Middle Ages: Studies in
Book SynopsisThis volume contains a collection of essays in honour of the late Professor of Comparative Literature, C Clifford Flanigan, who died suddenly in 1993 at the age of 52. The scholarship of this book constitutes an example of the interdisciplinary approach to the study of ecclesiastical history which is the aim of the newly established Centre for Christianity and the Arts at the Theological Faculty at the University of Copenhagen.
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Mapin Publishing Pvt.Ltd Whose Ramayana Is It Anyway?
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Mapin Publishing Pvt.Ltd Portraits of Devotion: Popular Manorath Paintings
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Mapin Publishing Pvt.Ltd Gauri Dancers
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Niyogi Books The Churches of India
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Niyogi Books Colours of Devotion: The Legendary Paintings and
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Blacksmith Books Paper Horses: Traditional Woodblock Prints of
Book SynopsisIn 2020 a large album of paper horses prayer prints of Chinese gods appeared for sale. How had these fragile things, cheaply printed in the 1940s and meant to be ritually burned soon after purchase, survived intact for so long? And how come there were at least three other identical sets in collections around the world? In answering this mystery, author David Leffman explores the history and techniques behind traditional Chinese woodblock printing, which dates back to at least the Tang dynasty (618-907). All 93 paper horses in the original album are reproduced alongside biographies of the gods, spirits and demons depicted, providing an illustrated introduction to the complex and fascinating world of Chinese folk religion.
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Vajra Publications Ritual Art of the Kingdom of Mithila: Traditional
Book SynopsisThe paintings have the purpose of attracting the deity's presence during the celebrations in his or her honor and a blessing on the family members of the house where they are painted.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Four Loves
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The C. S. Lewis Signature Classics 8Volume Box
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Of Other Worlds
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Oxford University Press Theology in Stone
Book SynopsisThinking about church architecture has come to an impasse. Reformers and traditionalists are talking past each other. In Theology in Stone, Richard Kieckhefer seeks to help both sides move beyond the standoff toward a fruitful conversation about houses of worship. Drawing on a wide range of historical examples with an eye to their contemporary relevance, he offers refreshing new ideas about the meanings and uses of church architecture.Table of ContentsIntroduction 1: The First Factor: Spatial Dynamics 2: The Second Factor: Centering Focus 3: The Third Factor: Aesthetic Impact 4: The Fourth Factor: Symbolic Resonance 5: Late Medieval Beverley: Traditional Churches in a Traditional Culture 6: Chicago: Traditional Churches in a Modern Culture 7: Rudolph Schwartz: Modern Churches in a Modern Culture 8: Issues in Church Architecture Notes Index
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Lulu.com The Christian Teachings of Charles Kingsley
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Yale University Press The Book of the Perfect Life
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SCM Press Art Modernity and Faith
Book SynopsisLeads the reader through a more or less historical narrative of the relationship between Christianity and the visual arts beginning with the deep-rooted fear of images in the Judaeo-Christian tradition. Shows how significant for religion art can be.
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Hymns Ancient & Modern Sounding the Depths Theology Through the Arts
Book SynopsisTheologians and artists reflect here on how theology and the arts can be mutually enriching and beneficial. The contibutors argue that it is part of theology's "calling" to engage with culture, particularly the arts, and that it is not in fact "true" theology unless it does so.
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Life You Save May Be Your Own An American Pilgrimage
Book SynopsisThe story of four modern American Catholics who made literature out of their search for GodIn the mid-twentieth century four American Catholics came to believe that the best way to explore the questions of religious faith was to write about them-in works that readers of all kinds could admire. The Life You Save May Be Your Own is their story-a vivid and enthralling account of great writers and their power over us.Thomas Merton was a Trappist monk in Kentucky; Dorothy Day the founder of the Catholic Worker in New York; Flannery O''Connor a Christ-haunted literary prodigy in Georgia; Walker Percy a doctor in New Orleans who quit medicine to write fiction and philosophy. A friend came up with a name for them-the School of the Holy Ghost-and for three decades they exchanged letters, ardently read one another''s books, and grappled with what one of them called a predicament shared in common.A pilgrimage is a journey taken in light of a story; and in The Life You Save May Be Your Own Paul Elie tells these writers'' story as a pilgrimage from the God-obsessed literary past of Dante and Dostoevsky out into the thrilling chaos of postwar American life. It is a story of how the Catholic faith, in their vision of things, took on forms the faithful could not have anticipated. And it is a story about the ways we look to great books and writers to help us make sense of our experience, about the power of literature to change-to save-our lives.
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Random House USA Inc The Lost Painting
Book SynopsisTold with consummate skill by the writer of the bestselling, award-winning A Civil Action, The Lost Painting is a remarkable synthesis of history and detective story. An Italian village on a hilltop near the Adriatic coast, a decaying palazzo facing the sea, and in the basement, cobwebbed and dusty, lit by a single bulb, an archive unknown to scholars. Here, a young graduate student from Rome, Francesca Cappelletti, makes a discovery that inspires a search for a work of art of incalculable value, a painting lost for almost two centuries. The artist was Caravaggio, a master of the Italian Baroque. He was a genius, a revolutionary painter, and a man beset by personal demons. Four hundred years ago, he drank and brawled in the taverns and streets of Rome, moving from one rooming house to another, constantly in and out of jail, all the while painting works of transcendent emotional and visual power. He rose from obscurity
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