Gordon Graham

Philosophy, Art, and Religion

Understanding Faith and Creativity

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Produktbeschreibung

Systematically explores the affinity and the rivalry between art and religion, focusing at length on music, visual art, literature, and architecture in turn.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. September 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 116mm x 111mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 286g
• ISBN-13: 9781107584778
• ISBN-10: 1107584779
• Artikelnr.: 48029902

Autorenporträt

Before taking up his post at Princeton Theological Seminary, New Jersey, Gordon Graham taught philosophy at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, where he was also founding Director of the University Music Centre, and at the University of Aberdeen where he was Regius Professor of Moral Philosophy. The author of many essays on a wide range of philosophical topics relating to art, ethics, politics, and religion, his books include Philosophy of the Arts (third edition, 2005), The Re-enchantment of the World (2007) and Wittgenstein and Natural Religion (2014). He has been Sheffer Visiting Professor of Religion at Colorado College, Stanton Lecturer in Philosophy and Religion at the University of Cambridge, and an Adjunct Professor of Sacred Music at the Westminster Choir College.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Religion, art, and the aesthetics of everyday life
2. Sacred music
3. Art, icon, and idolatry
4. Literature and liturgy
5. Glorious and transcendent places
6. Re-thinking the sacred arts.