At the crossroads of art and religion
Subtitle: imagination, commitment, transcendence
By: edited by Hetty Zock.
Contributors: Zock, Hetty.
Series: Groningen studies in cultural change -- v.34; Groningen studies in cultural change -- v.34.
Publisher: Peeters
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Leuven; Walpole, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9789042921733
Subjects: Arts and religion; Aesthetics -- Religious aspects; Psychoanalysis and the arts; Arts -- Psychological aspects; Religion and culture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-201) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: religion aestheticized, art spiritualized  -- Hetty Zock -- 'The dissolution of the sphere of the common': literature, ethics and J. M. Coetzee / -- Liesbeth Korthals Altes; title: Religious and aesthetic experiences: a psychological approach  -- Hans Alma; title: Allegory in modern dystopia: on Saramago's novel Blindness  -- Els Jongeneel; title: The master and the sofa: psychoanalysis and mythology in Wagner's operas  -- Herman Westernik; title: Religious experience and popular culture: towards a new frame of enquiry  -- Gordon Lynch; title: 'Our father who art in cinema': a psychoanalytic reflection on the persistence of religious narrative about male maternity in contemporary film  -- Naomi Goldenberg -- Cultural anxiety in Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince: evil and the magic of human abilities / -- Hetty Zock; title: In search of playful seriousness: complications in the relationship between art and religion  -- Johan Goud; title: Imagine faith: on religion and imagination  -- Desiree Berendsen; title: Beauty as a theological concept: a critical examination of the aesthetics of Hans Urs von Balthasar and Gerardus van der Leeuw  -- Wessel Stoker; title: Late modern rhythm and the renewal of worship -- Marcel Barnard.