The Art of the Sacred: An Introduction to the Aesthetics of Art and Belief
This
book explores the relationship between religion and the visual
arts--and vice versa--within Christianity and other major religious
traditions. It identifies and describes the main historical,
theological, sociological and aesthetic dimensions of "religious" art,
with particular attention to "popular" as well as "high" culture, and
within societies of the developing world. It also attempts to locate,
and predict, the forms and functions of such art in a changing
contemporary context ofobligation, modernity, secularism and
fundamentalism
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