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23. Mai 2024 · How the Qur'ān Works: Reading Sacred Narrative by Leyla Ozgur Alhassen, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2023, ix+192 pp., US$54.00 (hardback) ISBN 978 019 765460 6
Vor einem Tag · It was human making done from materials provided by sacred order, for the sake of contemplating and celebrating that order, under the aspect of its beauty. Such work was driven by an understanding of art as mimēsis. This Greek word is often translated as “imitation” or “re-presentation.”. Art as mimesis re-presents, makes present again ...
Vor 6 Tagen · 29 April 2022. Bernice Martin reads a new academic critique. THE book The Power of the Sacred by Hans Joas, the distinguished German sociologist of religion, is a powerful addition to the critique of secularisation theory. Joas argues that Max Weber’s narrative of “disenchantment” in modern life is mistaken.
11. Mai 2024 · Religion is the use of human skill to make or do sacred things that capture attention, elicit emotion, express agency, communicate the worshiper's beliefs about what is sacred, and influence the imagination, beliefs, and behavior of other people in beneficial ways.
21. Mai 2024 · How Qur’ān Works Reading Sacred Narrative – 9780197654606. May 21, 2024 | Reading Religion. Search for: Recent Posts. Four Books on Modern Paganism ; Four Books on Digital Religion; Reading Religion Newsletter Vol. 8, Issue 9; Readin ...
Vor einem Tag · Daniel McInerny’s “Beauty and Imitation” seeks to retrieve, with the philosophical aid principally of Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas, the pre-modern understanding of art as imitation of the beautiful forms that make up sacred order. Beauty and Imitation: A Philosophical Reflections on the Art s, by Daniel McInerny (448 pages, Word on ...
Vor 3 Tagen · Qur’an, the sacred scripture of Islam. According to Islamic belief, it is a literal transcript of God’s speech, revealed to Muhammad through Gabriel to be recited to his community. It consists of 114 chapters of varying length, called surahs, and includes allusions to narratives familiar to Judaism and Christianity.
