Pub Date : 2022-03-24DOI: 10.1163/15685292-02601008
Yuemin He
Whereas Buddhism’s profile is rising in the US, there are surprising ways that Buddhism recirculates in more secular guises in traditionally Buddhist cultures of East Asia. This essay explores an intriguing case. Chi Li’s razor-sharp, passionate poems are quirkily “personal,” but relate very well to a wide spectrum of Chinese readers who made the popular novelist’s surprise poetry debut a bestseller in China. By studying Chi’s extensive use of Buddhist references to tap into issues dear to her, this essay shows that the Chinese readers are receptive to Buddhist ideas more as philosophies, principles, and moral codes than as explicit religion, even though Buddhism has a 2,000-year history in China. It argues that understanding this coded receptiveness helps translate Chi’s personal musings, blasts, and defiance into dialogues that address social norms, environmental issues, and individual complicity in social problems.
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Pub Date : 2022-03-24DOI: 10.1163/15685292-02601014
Lynne Charoenkitsuksun
{"title":"Pilgrimage: Journeys of Meaning, by Stanford, Peter","authors":"Lynne Charoenkitsuksun","doi":"10.1163/15685292-02601014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685292-02601014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41383,"journal":{"name":"Religion and the Arts","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42271092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-03-24DOI: 10.1163/15685292-02601010
Alison Fanous Cotti-Lowell
{"title":"Evangelical Gothic: The English Novel and the Religious War on Virtue from Wesley to Dracula, by Herbert, Christopher","authors":"Alison Fanous Cotti-Lowell","doi":"10.1163/15685292-02601010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685292-02601010","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41383,"journal":{"name":"Religion and the Arts","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-03-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48788414","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2022-03-24DOI: 10.1163/15685292-02601004
Sara Malton
This essay examines the significance of Frederic Leighton’s illustrations of George Eliot’s historical novel of Renaissance Florence, Romola (1862–1863). Leighton’s illustrations form a crucial part of Eliot’s vision of her heroine’s movement toward spiritual liberation. Eliot and Leighton together figure this evolution as a pilgrimage that takes us from the Old Testament to the Gospel of John, concluding with one of the most significant moments in the life of Christ: his encounter with the Woman at the Well. Leighton’s depictions of the heroine and Eliot’s narrative powerfully combine to show how Romola’s connection to sacrificial love is combined with increasing authority, as she becomes imagined as the force who unites both the prophetic Old Testament with the manifestations of the New. Romola thus uniquely underscores the place of a complex Victorian aesthetic and print culture within a genealogy of cultural renderings of female agency and mobility.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-15DOI: 10.1163/15685292-02505005
K. Daily
{"title":"Goodness, Exceptionalism, and Sense","authors":"K. Daily","doi":"10.1163/15685292-02505005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685292-02505005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41383,"journal":{"name":"Religion and the Arts","volume":"45 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41274718","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-15DOI: 10.1163/15685292-02505008
T. Graff
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Pub Date : 2021-12-15DOI: 10.1163/15685292-02505004
Ivan Stacy
This article examines the carnivalesque in two recent Bhutanese films, Hema Hema: Sing Me a Song While I Wait (2016, dir. Khyentse Norbu) and The Red Phallus (2018, dir. Tashi Gyeltshen). Bhutanese Buddhist rituals contain a number of elements that bear striking parallels with Mikhail Bakhtin’s conception of the carnivalesque, most notably in the use of masks and in the presence of jester figures known as atsaras. However, important differences also exist, most importantly the fact that in Bhutanese rituals masks are held to be sacred and are worn during dances intended to bring both participants and audience closer to Buddhist enlightenment. In both films discussed in this article, the anonymity provided by these traditional and ostensibly sacred masks prompts acts of sexual violence. As such, the article argues that the content of both films questions the use of ritual in contemporary Bhutan, while the use of carnivalesque form acts to deepen the nature of that questioning. In the case of Hema Hema, this is achieved by removing barriers between performance and spectatorship, while The Red Phallus in contrast seeks to alienate its audience.
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Pub Date : 2021-12-15DOI: 10.1163/15685292-02505006
T. Hoffman
{"title":"Leonardo’s Paradox: Word and Image in the Making of Renaissance Culture, by Keizer, Joost","authors":"T. Hoffman","doi":"10.1163/15685292-02505006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685292-02505006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41383,"journal":{"name":"Religion and the Arts","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41605081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-15DOI: 10.1163/15685292-02505007
C. P. Stutz
{"title":"Good Words: Evangelicalism and the Victorian Novel, by Knight, Mark","authors":"C. P. Stutz","doi":"10.1163/15685292-02505007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685292-02505007","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41383,"journal":{"name":"Religion and the Arts","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2021-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"64431769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"哲学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-12-15DOI: 10.1163/15685292-02505010
Gabriele Colombo
This paper reads Wes Anderson’s 2014 film The Grand Budapest Hotel through the lens of liturgical theology. It proposes that by revivifying collective memory—both its tragedies and joys—in a rhythmic, sensory, spatial, playful, and paradoxical way, the film forms our “social imaginary” for the better. In exploring the resonances between existing Anderson scholarship and liturgical theology, the paper highlights three key facets of the film: its implication of the present through the mythical stylization of the past; the relationship between M. Gustave and Zero, who find their place together as priest and acolyte of the Grand Budapest Hotel, enacting its liturgy of service against the rising tide of barbarism; and Anderson’s formal and aesthetic vision, which curates and elevates “found” objects and spaces, recognizing them as sacramental. Rejecting metaphysical dualism, the film suggests that communion and mystery are embedded in and enlivened by the material world.
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