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Introduction

The View from Everywhere

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 March 2021

Charles Taliaferro  and
Jil Evans
Charles Taliaferro
Affiliation:
St Olaf College, Minnesota
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Exaltation is at the heart of all religions. The aesthetics of religions disclose the values of the practitioners who shape the religion, and who, in turn, are further shaped in their practice and aesthetic experience. Religious life involves all the dimensions of aesthetics: beauty and ugliness, aesthetic emotions such as awe and love and hate, feelings of guilt and shame as well as joy and ecstasy, and a staggering range of artistic works. The field of aesthetics raises an array of religious concerns: Can we have aesthetically charged experiences of the divine? What is the relationship between beauty and divinity? In Is God Invisible? An Essay on Religion and Aesthetics, we investigate the aesthetics of religious life and values.

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Is God Invisible?
An Essay on Religion and Aesthetics
 , pp. 1 - 5
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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