Religious Subjects Depicted in Art

The experience of colour in Islamic visual culture has historically been overlooked. In this new approach, Idries Trevathan examines the language o...

The face of John Wesley (170391), the Methodist leader, became one of the most familiar images in the English-speaking and transatlantic worlds thr...

All cultures make, and break, images. Striking Images, Iconoclasms Past and Present explores how and why people have made and modified images and o...

The book examines the process of symbolic and material alteration of religious images in antiquity, the middle ages and the modern period. The proc...

Common views of religion typically focus on the beliefs and meanings derived from revealed scriptures, ideas, and doctrines. David Morgan has led t...

This innovative book aims to create a poetics of Church and a religious imaginary as alternatives to more institutional and conventional ways of th...

A vibrant critical exchange between contemporary art and Christianity is being increasingly prompted by an expanding programme of art installations...

First published in 1914, volume one of this study, published under the patronage of the government of His Highness the Maharaja of Travancore, soug...

Between the sixteenth and the nineteenth centuries, the west central African kingdom of Kongo practiced Christianity and actively participated in t...

This book employs a new approach to the art of sixteenth-century Europe by incorporating rhetoric and theory to enable a reinterpretation of elemen...

A few selected cases of visions and apparitions are detected and analyzed, including personal interviews with some of the witnesses. Of special in...

Mycenae, in the north-eastern corner of the plain of Argos in Greece, built atop a natural stronghold, became the preeminent centre of the advanced...

Margot E. Fasslers richly documented historywinner of the Otto Kinkeldey Award from the American Musicological Society and the John Nicholas Brown ...

Described by David Lodge as the most gifted and innovative writer of her generation, Muriel Spark had a literary career that spanned from the late ...

Renowned photographer A. J. Meek takes the novitiate on an inspired visual journey with eighty-eight color photographs of the interiors of churches...

This elegant Bible edition honors the beauty and richness of the New King James Version in a convenient portable size with essential study tools an...