Description
Book SynopsisThe transcripted conversations that represent the substance of this volume are the result of a research project funded by the United Kingdom's Arts and Humanities Research Council. The product of nearly three years of interviews conducted with senior religious figures from a diversity of religious traditions, this book represents a physical and political-theological journey around England from metropolitan capital through provincial cities and rural hinterlands, from rural episcopal palaces to industrial estates, from London mansion houses to remote mountain monastery and provides a snapshot of how religious leaders and authority figures respond to contemporary issues of freedom of expression.
Religious Authority and the Arts has a substantial introduction that situates the conversations within a theological, political, and cultural framework.
Table of ContentsContents: Religious Authority and the Arts: Aesthetics, Politics, Theology – Political-Theological Convergence: The Church of England – Political-Theological Conservatism: Catholicism, Orthodox Christianity and Evangelical Protestantism – Political-Theological Crisis: Judaism – Political-Theological Confrontation: Islam – Political-Theological (Re-) Construal (I): Hinduism – Political-Theological (Re-) Construal (II): Buddhism – Political-Theological Condemnation – Political-Theological Critique: What the Writers Say.
