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Book Aesthetic Piety  Or  The Beauty and Loveliness of the Christian Religion

Download or read book Aesthetic Piety Or The Beauty and Loveliness of the Christian Religion written by William Bacon and published by . This book was released on 1861 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Soul of Pleasure

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  • Author : David Monod
  • Publisher : Cornell University Press
  • Release : 2016-04-22
  • ISBN : 1501703994
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book The Soul of Pleasure written by David Monod and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-22 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Show business is today so essential to American culture it's hard to imagine a time when it was marginal. But as David Monod demonstrates, the appetite for amusements outside the home was not "natural": it developed slowly over the course of the nineteenth century. The Soul of Pleasure offers a new interpretation of how the taste for entertainment was cultivated. Monod focuses on the shifting connection between the people who built successful popular entertainments and the public who consumed them. Show people discovered that they had to adapt entertainment to the moral outlook of Americans, which they did by appealing to sentiment. The Soul of Pleasure explores several controversial forms of popular culture—minstrel acts, burlesques, and saloon variety shows—and places them in the context of changing values and perceptions. Far from challenging respectability, Monod argues that entertainments reflected and transformed the audience’s ideals. In the mid-nineteenth century, sentimentality not only infused performance styles and the content of shows but also altered the expectations of the theatergoing public. Sentimental entertainment depended on sensational effects that produced surprise, horror, and even gales of laughter. After the Civil War the sensational charge became more important than the sentimental bond, and new forms of entertainment gained in popularity and provided the foundations for vaudeville, America’s first mass entertainment. Ultimately, it was American entertainment’s variety that would provide the true soul of pleasure.

Book Religious Affections

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  • Author : Jonathan Edwards
  • Publisher : Yale University Press
  • Release : 2009-01-01
  • ISBN : 0300158416
  • Pages : 535 pages

Download or read book Religious Affections written by Jonathan Edwards and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 535 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains Edwards' most mature and persistent attempt to judge the validity of the religious development in eighteenth-century America known as the Great Awakening. In developing criteria for such judgment he attacked at the same time one of the fundamental questions facing all religion: how to distinguish genuine from spurious piety? The Awakening created much bitter controversy; on the one side stood the emotionalists and enthusiasts, and on the other the rationalists, for whom religion was essentially a matter of morality or good conduct and the acceptance of properly formulated doctrine. Edwards, with great analytical skill and enormous biblical learning, showed that both sides were in the wrong. He attacked both a ?lifeless morality” as too pale as to be the essence of religion, and he rejected the excesses of a purely emotional religion more concerned for sensational effects than for the inner transformation of the self, which was, for him, the center of genuine Christianity.

Book Christian Thought

Download or read book Christian Thought written by and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Guardian

Download or read book The Guardian written by and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 896 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Bible defender  ed  by J H  Rutherford

Download or read book The Bible defender ed by J H Rutherford written by and published by . This book was released on 1856 with total page 902 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Jonathan Edwards  Religious Tradition  and American Culture

Download or read book Jonathan Edwards Religious Tradition and American Culture written by Joseph A. Conforti and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 1995 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the charismatic leader of the wave of religious revivals known as the Great Awakening, Jonathan Edwards (1703-58) is one of the most important figures in American religious history. However, by the end of the eighteenth century, his writings were gener

Book Christianity and the Contest for Manhood in Late Antiquity

Download or read book Christianity and the Contest for Manhood in Late Antiquity written by Nathan D. Howard and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-11-24 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Nathan Howard explores gender and identity formation in fourth-century Cappadocia, where pro-Nicene bishops used a rhetoric of contest that aligned with conventions of classical Greek masculinity. Howard demonstrates that epistolary exhibitions served as 'a locus for' asserting manhood in the fourth century. These performances illustrate how a culture of orality that had defined manhood among civic elites was reframed as a contest whereby one accrued status through merits of composition. Howard shows how the Cappadocians' rhetoric also reordered the body and materiality as components of a maleness over which they moderated. He interrogates fourth-century theological conflict as part of a rhetorical battle over claims to manhood that supported the Cappadocians' theology and cast doubt on non-Trinitarian rivals, whom they cast as effeminate and disingenuous. Investigating accounts of pro-Nicene protagonists overcoming struggles, Howard establishes that tropes based on classical standards of gender contributed to the formation of Trinitarian orthodoxy.

Book The Art of the Sublime

Download or read book The Art of the Sublime written by Roger Homan and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-03-02 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the view of Hegel and others, pagan art is the art of the beautiful and Christian art is the art of the sublime. Roger Homan provides a comprehensive and informative account of the course of Christian art, encompassing a re-evaluation of conventional aesthetics and its application to religious art. Homan argues that taste and aesthetics are fashioned by morality and belief, and that Christian art must be assessed not in terms of its place in the history of art but of its place in Christian faith. The narrative basis of Christian art is documented but religious art is also explored as the expression of the devout and as an element in the trappings of collective expression and personal quest. Sections in the book explore pilgrimage art, puritan art, the tension of Gothic and Classical, church architecture and the language of worship. Current areas of debate, including the relationship of ethics to the appreciation of art, are also discussed. An extensive range of examples of painting, architecture and decoration, most of which are of European origin, are discussed throughout, with a number of striking illustrations included within the text.

Book Robert Browning

Download or read book Robert Browning written by Stefan Hawlin and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Accessibly written throughout, this guidebook covers biographical details, information on the historical and social contexts of Browning's work, an overview of the full range of his work and a survey of the major critical debates surrounding him and his work.

Book American Heartland

Download or read book American Heartland written by Bridget Ford and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 820 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "As a comparative community study, "American Heartland" shifts attention to a relatively understudied region of the country. To date, community studies of the Northeast, and particularly New England and New York, have dominated our understanding of social, cultural, and religious change in the nineteenth century. Unlike studies of the Northeast which link cultural change to commercial and market development, this one makes race, pluralism, and sectionalism crucial factors in considering shifts in cultural expression and religious mores. As diverse cities situated at the nation's divide between slavery and freedom, Louisville and Cincinnati dramatize the desire for a consolidated national culture and identity as well as the struggle for black Americans' enfranchisement and citizenship in a period of increasing religious pluralism and section tension."

Book Transformative Arts

    Book Details:
  • Author : Gary A. Berg
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2024-03-02
  • ISBN : 1475872542
  • Pages : 165 pages

Download or read book Transformative Arts written by Gary A. Berg and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-03-02 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional fine arts are often regarded as rarefied, something accessed by the uniquely talented and displayed in impressive museums or on lavish stages. Art thusly conceived is something that most people never practice in their lives. Yet in day-to-day life we all experience creative satisfaction through interaction with the physical and social environment that is a form of artistic practice. In Transformative Arts: Biological, Digital, and Everyday Aesthetics, Gary A. Berg explores what we gain through understanding ways to live imaginative lives and considers the increasingly important collaborative role of computers and interaction with nature.

Book The Christian Century

Download or read book The Christian Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1926 with total page 824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Empire and Revolution

Download or read book Empire and Revolution written by Richard Bourke and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 1028 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major new account of one of the leading philosopher-statesmen of the eighteenth century Edmund Burke (1730–97) lived during one of the most extraordinary periods of world history. He grappled with the significance of the British Empire in India, fought for reconciliation with the American colonies, and was a vocal critic of national policy during three European wars. He also advocated reform in Britain and became a central protagonist in the great debate on the French Revolution. Drawing on the complete range of printed and manuscript sources, Empire and Revolution offers a vivid reconstruction of the major concerns of this outstanding statesman, orator, and philosopher. In restoring Burke to his original political and intellectual context, this book overturns the conventional picture of a partisan of tradition against progress and presents a multifaceted portrait of one of the most captivating figures in eighteenth-century life and thought. A boldly ambitious work of scholarship, this book challenges us to rethink the legacy of Burke and the turbulent era in which he played so pivotal a role.

Book Religion and the Arts

Download or read book Religion and the Arts written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Religion and the Arts is devoted to the study of this rapidly expanding interdisciplinary field. It aims, among other things, to promote the development of discourses for exploring the religious dimensions of the verbal, visual and performing arts.

Book The Revival of Religion which We Need  A Sermon  Delivered at Music Hall  Boston     April 11  1858     Phonographically Reported by James M  W  Yerrinton

Download or read book The Revival of Religion which We Need A Sermon Delivered at Music Hall Boston April 11 1858 Phonographically Reported by James M W Yerrinton written by Theodore PARKER and published by . This book was released on 1858 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Chaucerian Aesthetics

Download or read book Chaucerian Aesthetics written by P. Knapp and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-04-30 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chaucerian Aesthetics examines The Canterbury Tale and Troilus and Criseyde from both medieval and post-Kantian vantage points. These sometimes congruent, sometimes divergent perspectives illuminate both the immediate pleasure of encountering beauty and its haunting promise of intelligibility. Although aesthetic reflection has sometimes seemed out of sync with modern approaches to mind and language, Knapp defends its value in general and demonstrates its importance for the analysis of Chaucer s narrative art. Focusing on language games, persons, women, humor, and community, this book ponders what makes art beautiful.