Enjoying Religion
Enjoying Religion

Author: Frans Jespers

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2018-08-15

Total Pages: 214

ISBN-13: 1498555020

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“Enjoying religion” seems to be a contradiction because religion is generally perceived as a serious or even suppressive phenomenon. This volume is the first to study the increase of enjoying religion systematically by presenting eleven new case studies, occurring on four continents. The volume concludes that in our late modern secular societies the enjoyment of religion or of its loose elements is growing. In particular when scholars concentrate on “lived religion” of ordinary people, the cheerful experiences appear to prevail. Many people use pleasant (elements of) religion to add meaning to their lives, to find spiritual fulfillment or a way to salvation, and to experience belonging to a larger unity. At the same time, diverse cultural dynamics of late modern society such as popular culture, commercialization, re-enchantment, and feminization influence this trend of enjoying religion. In spite of secularization, playing with religion appears to be attractive.

Religion and Contemporary Art
Religion and Contemporary Art

Author: Ronald R. Bernier

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2023-05-10

Total Pages: 475

ISBN-13: 1000868451

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Religion and Contemporary Art sets the theoretical frameworks and interpretive strategies for exploring the re-emergence of religion in the making, exhibiting, and discussion of contemporary art. Featuring essays from both established and emerging scholars, critics, and artists, the book reflects on what might be termed an "accord" between contemporary art and religion. It explores the common strategies contemporary artists employ in the interface between religion and contemporary art practice. It also includes case studies to provide more in-depth treatments of specific artists grappling with themes such as ritual, abstraction, mythology, the body, popular culture, science, liturgy, and social justice, among other themes. It is a must-read resource for working artists, critics, and scholars in this field, and an invitation to new voices "curious" about its promises and possibilities.

Celluloid Revolt
Celluloid Revolt

Author: Christina Gerhardt

Publisher: Screen Cultures: German Film a

Published: 2019

Total Pages: 340

ISBN-13: 1571139958

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Provides new insights into German-language cinema around 1968 and its relationship to the period's epoch-making cultural and political happenings.

Generation Exodus
Generation Exodus

Author: Walter Laqueur

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2003-10-23

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 085771287X

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This text is a generational history of the young people whose lives were irrevocably shaped by the rise of the Nazis. Half a million Jews lived in Germany when Hitler came to power in 1933. Over the next decade, thousands would flee. Among these refugees, teens and young adults formed a remarkable generation. They were old enough to appreciate the loss of their homeland and the experience of flight, but often young and flexible enough to survive and even flourish in new environments. This generation has produced such disparate figures as Henry Kissinger and "Dr Ruth" Westheimer. Walter Laqueur has drawn on interviews, published and unpublished memoirs and his own experiences as a member of this group of refugees, to paint a vivid and moving portrait of Generation Exodus.