Title: Religion and art in conflict :
Authors: Laeuchli, Samuel.
Date: 1980
Publisher: Fortress Press,
Physical description: ix, 240 pages ; 21 cm
Language: English
LC classification: N
Abstract: This book offers a new approach both to the study of religion and the study of art. Incorporating both theological and artistic research, it presents a framework in which these two phenomena can meet and profit from cross-disiplinary enounter.
Contents: Religion and art, the problem -- The dilemma of religion -- The dilemma of art -- The threat of art -- Myth and counter-myth; the transmutation of religion -- Icon and idea: Aquileia and Nicaea -- Processes of analogy -- Art and the study of religion.
Notes: Includes index.
Subject headings (LCSH): Art and religion.