Description
Book SynopsisThis book traces a recovery of iconographic religious experience and theology in the nineteenth century. In contrast to a logocentric religious focus, which privileges texts and their analysis, an iconographic focus emphasizes the visual and narrative attributes of religion. The introduction sets the stage by discussing the profound disquietude in the wake of Britain's Religious Census of 1851, along with the various responses to a perceived decline in religiosity. Two subsequent chapters deal with the resurgence of iconographic religion from the perspective of theology proper, arguing that contemporary theologians, such as those represented by the Yale School of Divinity, held to a more holistic as opposed to a fragmentary approach towards scripture. In doing so they came to center the scriptural stories on the events surrounding Christ's passion. The remaining chapters trace the recovery of iconographic religion through American, Russian, and British culture throughout the ninetee
Table of Contents
Illustrations – Acknowledgements – Introduction: Ways and Means – Rosie the Riveter, Norman Rockwell, and Religious Iconography – Richard Hooker and Jeremy Taylor: Iconographic Theology Exemplified – The Imaginative Quality of Experience: Resources for an Iconographic Theology – The Recovery of a Religious Vision in Nineteenth-Century Russian Art – The Iconographic Dimension of British Popular Culture Fin-de-Siecle: Plays and Painting – The Religious Experience in Russian Literature – Index.
