Sacred Text -- Sacred Space

Architectural, Spiritual and Literary Convergences in England and Wales
Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-90-04-20299-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 4, 372 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 771 g

Reihe: Studies in Religion and the Arts

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Sterrett, Joseph

Thomas, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Christliche Kunst und Kultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie Geschichte der Theologie, Einzelne Theologen
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Religionsphilosophie, Philosophische Theologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.

Über Autor(innen)

Joseph Sterrett is Assistant Professor of Literature in English at Aarhus University in Denmark. He has published articles examining the unheard prayer in Shakespeare's plays and the playwright's connection to his religious context.

Peter Thomas taught at Cardiff University. He is particularly interested in Stuart court culture, the impact of the English Civil War on literature, and Henry Vaughan, being General Editor of Scintilla, the annual journal of Vaughan Studies and New Poetry.