{"product_id":"interplay-of-things-9781478013532","title":"Interplay of Things","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDrawing on literature along with the visual and performing arts, Anthony B. Pinn theorizes religion as a technology for interrogating human experiences understanding the ways in which things are always involved in processes of exchange and interplay.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Religion isn't what people do but how they interpret, Anthony B. Pinn argues in this provocative work. Building on years of scholarly insight, Pinn asks readers to see how in their human relationships and their exchanges with the material world they embody religion. A must-read for scholars of religion.” -- Kathryn Lofton, Yale University\u003cbr\u003e“Anthony B. Pinn’s exploration into the interplay among religion, spirituality, and the performance of black creativity is a force to behold. Writing with probing insight, Pinn underscores the liminal spaces and edges where the bodily and the embodied blur the lines between the pedantic and the spectacle, imploding along the way the artifice of the sacred in exchange for the sanctity of artistic liberation.” -- Valerie Cassel Oliver, Sydney and Frances Lewis Family Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts\u003cbr\u003e\"A significant contribution to the subfield of art and religion, probing in thought-provoking ways the relationship between the two. . . . Readers will find the book a rigorous training in developing the hermeneutical 'eyes to see,' that do not guarantee, but are essential for, any meaningful action.\" -- Michael D. Nichols * Religious Studies Review *\u003cbr\u003e\"Anthony B. Pinn’s \u003ci\u003eInterplay of Things\u003c\/i\u003e is a rich, sophisticated, and deeply rewarding meditation on the phenomenological structure of the human encounter with things in the world.\" -- Donovan Schaefer * Material Religion *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Acknowledgments  ix\u003cbr\u003e Introduction. Definitions and Considerations  1\u003cbr\u003e Part I. Meaning\u003cbr\u003e 1. Things  25\u003cbr\u003e 2. The Art of Placement  45\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Interplay\u003cbr\u003e 3. Artistic Expression of Transience  59\u003cbr\u003e 4. The \"Stuff\" of Performance  83\u003cbr\u003e 5. The Art of Elimination  108\u003cbr\u003e Part III. Restricting\u003cbr\u003e 6. Pieces of Things  133\u003cbr\u003e 7. \"Captured\" Things  148\u003cbr\u003e 8. Problem Things  172\u003cbr\u003e Epilogue. Confronting Exposure, or A Psycho-Ethical Response to Openness  187\u003cbr\u003e Notes  201\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography  249\u003cbr\u003e Index  265","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408993526103,"sku":"9781478013532","price":72.25,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781478013532.jpg?v=1730505007","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/interplay-of-things-9781478013532","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}