Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1163/15685292-02603010
Tara Dybas
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1163/15685292-02603005
Vijay Prakash Singh
For a long time, Herman Hesse’s celebrated Siddhartha (1922) popularized a version of Buddhism in the West. However, by comparing it to Kunzang Choden’s The Circle of Karma (2005), the first Bhutanese novel published in English, with its similar plot of a seeker, this essay finds the ways it displays a Westernized ideal of Buddhism. Unlike The Circle of Karma, Siddhartha actually relies on Western ideas of individualism and self-reliance.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1163/15685292-02603007
Karah Lain
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1163/15685292-02603003
Ana Nolasco
This article seeks to analyze the drift of elements of Azorean popular religion into the domain of art orchestrated by two Azorean artists, Catarina Branco and Sofia de Medeiros. The change brings unlikely marriages into fruition, uniting the humor of pop art and the solemnity of the arches of the high choir in a church, the spirit of revelry and a sign of the cross, representing the unfathomable—death, the dread of emptiness to the feeling of unity in communitas. The presentation, together with the strangeness of decontextualization provoked by this change, invoke the walk of the visitor, during which different senses are awakened, in which the poetic imagination of the observer is called forth to complete the different meanings. In this thesis I shall argue that the elements of popular religiosity carried by these artists into the domain of art constitute sensory arrangements, in the sense given to this term by Meyer, providing structure to a collective religious experience particular to Azorean culture where the sacred intertwines with the profane. The mediation of the transcendent through these sensory arrangements leads, on one hand, to contamination and reciprocal intensification of the spheres of art and religion and, on the other hand, to a renewed look at the contemporaneous and its connection to the spiritual.
本文试图分析亚速尔流行宗教元素在两位亚速尔艺术家Catarina Branco和Sofia de Medeiros策划的艺术领域中的漂移。这一变化使不太可能的婚姻得以实现,融合了流行艺术的幽默和教堂高唱诗班拱门的庄严、狂欢的精神和十字架的象征,代表了深不可测的死亡、对空虚的恐惧和社区的团结感。这种呈现,再加上这种变化所引发的去文本化的陌生感,唤起了来访者的行走,在行走中,不同的感官被唤醒,观察者的诗意想象力被唤起,以完成不同的意义。在这篇论文中,我将认为,这些艺术家带入艺术领域的流行宗教元素构成了感官安排,在迈耶赋予这个术语的意义上,为亚速尔文化特有的集体宗教体验提供了结构,在那里,神圣与世俗交织在一起。超越者通过这些感官安排的中介,一方面导致艺术和宗教领域的污染和相互强化,另一方面,导致对同时代及其与精神的联系的重新审视。
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1163/15685292-02603006
Grace N. Kimball
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1163/15685292-02603001
Yaffa Englard
The traditional reading of the biblical account of the Garden of Eden has left a weighty imprint on Western civilization, holding Eve solely to blame for introducing sin into the human world and thus the loss of Paradise, suffering, and death. This paper seeks to demonstrate the way in which Jewish and Christian theological and interpretative traditions of this story are concretely exemplified in medieval visual representations whose influence can still be seen in the twenty-first century.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1163/15685292-02603004
Giulia Privitelli
In this paper, Caravaggio’s painting of The Beheading of St John the Baptist located in the Oratory of the Co-Cathedral of St John the Baptist, in Valletta, Malta, will serve as a backdrop to qualify and analyze the religious and aesthetic experiential value that such an artwork could generate within the beholder, by considering its eschatological and soteriological implications and context, as well as the notion of ‘image as mirror’ and its effect on the viewer’s consciousness. This will primarily be discussed across two binaries: early seventeenth-century Hospitaller spirituality and the precarious condition of the artist, himself a novice of the Hospitaller Order of St John the Baptist. Guided by the changing artistic, didactic, and functional uses of the Oratory, and the theological implications of the painting, the Beheading will thus be analyzed in its affordance for both transcendental and self-reflective revelation, and as a turning point for the aspiring novice, the artist and, ultimately, the contemporary beholder.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1163/15685292-02603002
M. Atkinson
This examination asserts that artist and photographer Hannah Maynard’s association with late-nineteenth-century North American organizations that advocated the often-repudiated notion of the possibility of spiritual life after physical death informed her photographs. Spiritualists offered numerous examples of alternative existences after corporeal demise, and this paper will explore the possibility that Maynard used her knowledge to re-create and re-interpret late-nineteenth and early-twentieth century perceptions of a realm of Spirit.
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Pub Date : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1163/15685292-02603009
Tara Dybas
{"title":"Passion Relics and the Medieval Imagination: Art, Architecture, and Society , by Hahn, Cynthia","authors":"Tara Dybas","doi":"10.1163/15685292-02603009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685292-02603009","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41383,"journal":{"name":"Religion and the Arts","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48484585","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 : 2022-06-01DOI: 10.1163/15685292-02603011
Frederick S. Roden
{"title":"Decadent Catholicism and the Making of Modernism , by Lockerd, Martin","authors":"Frederick S. Roden","doi":"10.1163/15685292-02603011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1163/15685292-02603011","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":41383,"journal":{"name":"Religion and the Arts","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2022-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42094713","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}