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When Art Disrupts Religion

Aesthetic Experience and the Evangelical Mind

by Philip S. Francis

  • Hardback
  • 240 pages
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press
  • 15.5 x 23.7 x 2.3 cm

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For Evangelicals seeking new perspectives on faith

Addresses the clash between art and traditional beliefs

You will discover the power of art to reshape your faith

This book explores how art challenges and transforms faith.

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When Art Disrupts Religion opens at London's Tate Modern Museum, with a young Evangelical man contemplating a painting by Mark Rothko, an aesthetic experience that proves disruptive to his religious life. Without those moments with Rothko, he says, "there never would have been an undoing of my conservative Evangelical worldview." The memoirs, interviews, and ethnographic field notes gathered by Philip Francis for this book lay bare the power of the arts to unsettle and overturn deeply ingrained religious beliefs and practices. Francis explores the aesthetic disturbances of more than 80 Evangelical respondants. From the paintings of Rothko to the films of Ingmar Bergman, from The Brothers Karamozov to The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, Francis finds that the arts function as sites of "defamiliarization," "comfort in uncertainty," "a stand-in for faith" and a "surrogate transcendence." Bridging the gap between aesthetic theory and lived religion, this book sheds light on the complex interrelationship of religion and art in the modern West, and the role of the arts in education and social life.
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  • Title

    When Art Disrupts Religion

  • Author

    Philip S. Francis

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Oxford University Press

  • Published

    April 2017

  • Weight

    454g

  • Page Count

    240

  • Dimensions

    15.5 x 23.7 x 2.3 cm

  • ISBN

    9780190279769

  • ISBN-10

    0190279761

  • Eden Code

    4560705

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