Sacred Text - Sacred Space : Architectural, Spiritual and Literary Convergences in England and Wales (Studies in Religion and the Arts)

Thomas, Peter/ Sterrett, Joseph

Brill Academic Pub（2011/10発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 372 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9789004202993
• DDC分類 261.570942

Full Description

This book is not designed to define the sacred. It is, rather, a bringing together of case histories (a rich, varied collection from medieval, early modern and nineteenth-century contexts in England and Wales) that goes beyond familiar paradigms to explore the dynamic, protean interaction, in different times and places, between sacred space and text. Essentially an interdisciplinary enterprise, it focuses a range of historical and critical methodologies on that complex process of transformation and transmission whereby spiritual intuitions, experiences and teachings are made palpable 'in art and architecture, poetry and prayer, in histories, scriptures and liturgies, even landscapes. So the sacred, variously constructed and inscribed, makes itself felt 'on the pulse'; is a presence, a voice even now not stilled.

Contents

Contributors Include: Richard Chartres, Joseph Sterrett, Madeleine Gray, Thomas Pickles, Laura Varnam, Roy Eriksen, Richard Wilson, Graham Parry, Helen Wilcox, Peter Thomas, Dennis Taylor, Allan Doig, William Whyte, Susanna Avery-Quash, Patrick Sherry.