Frank Burch Brown is Frederick Doyle Kershner Professor of Religion and the Arts at Christian Theological Seminary, Indianapolis, and was recently Alexander Campbell Visiting Professor of Religion and the Arts at the University of Chicago Divinity School. He is the author of five books, including Religious Aesthetics (1989) and Good Taste, Bad Taste, Christian Taste: Aesthetics in Religious Life (2000). He is also a composer, with twenty commissioned works.

• AcknowledgmentsContributorsIntroduction: Chapter One: Mapping the Terrain of Religion and Art - Frank Burch Brown PART ONE: RELIGIOUS AESTHETICSChapter Two: Aesthetics and Religion: An Overview - Richard ViladesauChapter Three: Beauty and Divinity - Patrick SherryChapter Four: The Religious Sublime - Vijay MishraChapter Five: Artistic Imagination and Religious Faith - Gesa Elsbeth ThiessenChapter Six: Creativity at the Intersection of Art and Religion - Deborah Haynes PART TWO: ARTISTIC WAYS OF BEING RELIGIOUSChapter Seven: Musical - Frank Burch BrownChapter Eight: Narrative - David JasperChapter Nine: Poetic - Peggy RosenthalChapter Ten: Dramatic - Larry BouchardChapter Eleven: Embodied-Dance - Anne-Marie Gaston, with Tony GastonChapter Twelve: Architectural - Richard KieckheferChapter Thirteen: Visual and Still (Painting, Sculpture & Photography) - Diane Apostolos-CappadonaChapter Fourteen: Visual and Moving (Film) - Robert K. Johnston PART THREE: RELIGIOUS WAYS OF BEING ARTISTICChapter Fifteen: Judaism and Literature - Ilan StavansChapter Sixteen: Judaism and Music - Mark KligmanChapter Seventeen: Judaism and Art - Edward van VoolenChapter Eighteen: Christianity and Literature - Ralph C. WoodChapter Nineteen: Christianity and Music - Paul WestermeyerChapter Twenty: Christianity and Visual Art - Graham HowesChapter Twenty-One: Islam and Literature - Tarif KhalidiChapter Twenty-Two: Islam and Visual Art - Margaret S. GravesChapter Twenty-Three: Islam and Music - Amnon ShiloahChapter Twenty-Four: Hinduism-Aesthetics, Drama, and Poetics - Sunthar VisuvalingamChapter Twenty-Five: Hinduism-Visual Art and Architecture - Jessica FrazierChapter Twenty-Six: Hinduism and Music - Guy L. BeckChapter Twenty-Seven: Buddhism-Image as Icon, Image as Art - Charles LachmannChapter Twenty-Eight: Taoism and the Arts - Deborah A. SommerChapter Twenty-Nine: Confucianism and the Arts - Deborah A. SommerChapter Thirty: Shinto and Visual Art - Sybil Thornton PART FOUR: ISSUES and THEMESChapter Thirty-One: Artistry in Modern and Postmodern Worship - Don SaliersChapter Thirty-Two: Art, Morality, and Justice - John W. de GruchyChapter Thirty-Three: Belief and Doubt in Literature - Roger LundinChapter Thirty-Four: Iconoclasm - Mia MochizukiChapter Thirty-Five: Gender, Imagery, and Religious Imagination - Margaret MilesChapter Thirty-Six: Art, Material Culture, and Lived Religion - David MorganChapter Thirty-Seven: Sacred and Secular in African American Music - Cheryl Kirk-Duggan Index

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