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dc.contributor.advisorHart, Trevor A.
dc.contributor.authorHearn, Emily K.
dc.coverage.spatialxii, 264en_US
dc.date.accessioned2015-04-16T13:33:03Z
dc.date.available2015-04-16T13:33:03Z
dc.date.issued2014-12-01
dc.identifieruk.bl.ethos.644832
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/6500
dc.description.abstractThis thesis is concerned with the hypothesis that an intellectual conversation between Christian and Hindu traditions on questions of aesthetic concern may not only prove mutually illuminating as such but also touch obliquely upon matters of religious and theological concern without exciting the defensive response often posed by more familiar strategies of inter-faith ‘dialogue’. It seeks to establish the existence of sufficient conditions for such a conversation within the respective traditions. The Introduction considers the relevant model of ‘conversation’ distinguishing it from other forms of encounter between religious traditions. It proceeds by identifying three shared concerns: freedom and constraint, aesthetic experience and religious encounters, and the relationship between the material artwork and its significance. The first three chapters address them by examining various elements in Hindu traditions, including a detailed treatment of the Śilpaśāstras, a comprehensive consideration of the concept of rasa and its relation to religious experience, and an exploration of the role of the senses in scriptural traditions, the importance of Form and the value of the art object as a devotional aid. Finally it outlines the notion darśan, of seeing and being seen by a deity through a material image. The last three chapters address them by examining the work of Christian theologians including Dorothy Sayers on Art as Idea, exploring bequeathed traditions in iconography and the music of John Tavener, and expounding Tolkien’s category of ‘sub-creation’. It considers the work of David Brown, Richard Viladesau, John Ruskin, Frank Burch Brown and Abraham Kuyper who span a putative spectrum of equating aesthetic and religious experience at one end and strictly demarcating between them at the other end. It explores the relationship of the physical art object with its spiritual significance in the work of Dorothy Sayers, John Carey, Rowan Williams, David Brown and Trevor Hart.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherUniversity of St Andrews
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectHinduen_US
dc.subjectChristianen_US
dc.subjectEngagementen_US
dc.subjectConversationen_US
dc.subjectRasaen_US
dc.subjectReligious & aestheticen_US
dc.subjectSpirit & matteren_US
dc.subjectFreedom & constrainten_US
dc.subject.lccBL65.A4H4en_US
dc.subject.lcshAesthetics--Religious aspects--Comparative studiesen_US
dc.subject.lcshAesthetics--Religious aspects--Hinduismen_US
dc.subject.lcshAesthetics--Religious aspects--Christianityen_US
dc.subject.lcshHinduism--Relations--Christianityen_US
dc.subject.lcshChristianity and other religions--Hinduismen_US
dc.titleOverhearing : Hindu & Christian perspectives on artistryen_US
dc.title.alternativeOverhearing : Hindu and Christian perspectives on artistryen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.type.qualificationlevelDoctoralen_US
dc.type.qualificationnamePhD Doctor of Philosophyen_US
dc.publisher.institutionThe University of St Andrewsen_US


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