Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction: Chapter One: Mapping the Terrain of Religion and Art - Frank Burch Brown
PART ONE: RELIGIOUS AESTHETICS
Chapter Two: Aesthetics and Religion: An Overview - Richard Viladesau
Chapter Three: Beauty and Divinity - Patrick Sherry
Chapter Four: The Religious Sublime - Vijay Mishra
Chapter Five: Artistic Imagination and Religious Faith - Gesa Elsbeth Thiessen
Chapter Six: Creativity at the Intersection of Art and Religion - Deborah Haynes
PART TWO: ARTISTIC WAYS OF BEING RELIGIOUS
Chapter Seven: Musical - Frank Burch Brown
Chapter Eight: Narrative - David Jasper
Chapter Nine: Poetic - Peggy Rosenthal
Chapter Ten: Dramatic - Larry Bouchard
Chapter Eleven: Embodied-Dance - Anne-Marie Gaston, with Tony Gaston
Chapter Twelve: Architectural - Richard Kieckhefer
Chapter Thirteen: Visual and Still (Painting, Sculpture & Photography) - Diane Apostolos-Cappadona
Chapter Fourteen: Visual and Moving (Film) - Robert K. Johnston
PART THREE: RELIGIOUS WAYS OF BEING ARTISTIC
Chapter Fifteen: Judaism and Literature - Ilan Stavans
Chapter Sixteen: Judaism and Music - Mark Kligman
Chapter Seventeen: Judaism and Art - Edward van Voolen
Chapter Eighteen: Christianity and Literature - Ralph C. Wood
Chapter Nineteen: Christianity and Music - Paul Westermeyer
Chapter Twenty: Christianity and Visual Art - Graham Howes
Chapter Twenty-One: Islam and Literature - Tarif Khalidi
Chapter Twenty-Two: Islam and Visual Art - Margaret S. Graves
Chapter Twenty-Three: Islam and Music - Amnon Shiloah
Chapter Twenty-Four: Hinduism-Aesthetics, Drama, and Poetics - Sunthar Visuvalingam
Chapter Twenty-Five: Hinduism-Visual Art and Architecture - Jessica Frazier
Chapter Twenty-Six: Hinduism and Music - Guy L. Beck
Chapter Twenty-Seven: Buddhism-Image as Icon, Image as Art - Charles Lachmann
Chapter Twenty-Eight: Taoism and the Arts - Deborah A. Sommer
Chapter Twenty-Nine: Confucianism and the Arts - Deborah A. Sommer
Chapter Thirty: Shinto and Visual Art - Sybil Thornton
PART FOUR: ISSUES and THEMES
Chapter Thirty-One: Artistry in Modern and Postmodern Worship - Don Saliers
Chapter Thirty-Two: Art, Morality, and Justice - John W. de Gruchy
Chapter Thirty-Three: Belief and Doubt in Literature - Roger Lundin
Chapter Thirty-Four: Iconoclasm - Mia Mochizuki
Chapter Thirty-Five: Gender, Imagery, and Religious Imagination - Margaret Miles
Chapter Thirty-Six: Art, Material Culture, and Lived Religion - David Morgan
Chapter Thirty-Seven: Sacred and Secular in African American Music - Cheryl Kirk-Duggan
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