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Wir sind gerne für Sie daThis study deals with the aesthetic manifestations of one of the world’s most fiercely iconophobic and anti-aesthetic religious cultures: Calvinism. It establishes the category of the Calvinesque as an aesthetic of extreme violence against the human body. In close readings of theological documents, literary texts and dramatic speeches, the book examines the extent to which language, literary imagination and theology permeate and condition each other. The book aims at providing new perspectives on literary stylistics after the religious turn in the humanities. By emphasising the pervasive impact of Protestant theology on secular Western culture and by radically questioning some of the narratives that have been crucial to Western (Protestant) identity, this study opens up historical perspectives to contemporary debates about the impact of Calvinism on political discourses, violent entertainment, disciplinary culture and an Anglo-American humanitarian «pornography of pain».
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9783631643310
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-3-631-64331-0
- Verlag: Peter Lang
- Erscheinungstermin: 13.08.2014
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 2014
- Produktform: Gebunden
- Gewicht: 350 g
- Seiten: 176
- Format (B x H): 148 x 210 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Themen
- Geisteswissenschaften
- Christentum, Christliche Theologie
- Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen
- Protestantismus, evangelische und protestantische Kirchen
- Reformierte Kirchen, Calvinisten, presbyterianische Kirchen