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Titel:Negotiating the sacred II
Titelzusatz:blasphemy and sacrilege in the arts
Mitwirkende:Coleman, Elizabeth Burns   i
 Fernandes Dias, Maria Suzette   i
Verf.angabe:Elizabeth Burns Coleman and Maria Suzette Fernandes-Dias (editors)
Verlagsort:Canberra, ACT
Verlag:ANU E Press
Jahr:2008
Umfang:1 Online-Ressource (xi, 210 pages)
Schrift/Sprache:English
Ang. zum Inhalt:Introduction: Lines in the sand / Elizabeth Burns Coleman and Maria Suzette Fernandes-Dias
 Section I: Understanding Blasphemy and Sacrilege. Blasphemy and sacrilege: A challenge to secularisation and theories of the modern? / David Nash
 'The devil's centres of operation': English theatre and the charge of blasphemy, 1698-1708 / David Manning
 Madonna and piano accordion: Disrupting the order of the world / Elizabeth Burns Coleman
 Materialising the sacred / Dianne McGowan
 Section II: Motivations for Artistic Blasphemy. Blasphemy and sacrilege in the novel of magic realism: Grass, Bulgakov, and Rushdie / Peter Arnds
 Les fees ont soif: Feminist, iconoclastic or blasphemous? / Maria-Suzette Fernandes-Dias
 The body of Christ: Blasphemy as a necessary transgression? / Carolyn D'Cruz and Glenn D'Cruz
 Section III: Reinterpreting Freedom of Expression. The monologue of liberalism and its imagination of the sacred in minority cultures / Jasdev Singh Rai
 Blasphemy in a pluralistic society / Jeremy Shearmur
 Section IV: Self-expression and Restriction. Blasphemy and the art of the political and devotional / Christopher Braddock
 Negotiating the sacred body in Iranian cinema(s): National, physical and cinematic embodiment in Majid Majidi's Baran (2002) / Michelle Langford
 Silence as a way of knowing in Yolngu Indigenous Australian storytelling / Caroline Josephs.
ISBN:978-1-921536-27-4
 1-921536-27-6
 978-1-921536-26-7
Abstract:Blasphemy and other forms of blatant disrespect to religious beliefs have the capacity to create significant civil and even international unrest. Consequently, the sacrosanctity of religious dogmas and beliefs, stringent laws of repression and codes of moral and ethical propriety have compelled artists to live and create with occupational hazards like uncertain audience response, self-censorship and accusations of deliberate misinterpretation of cultural production looming over their heads. Yet, in recent years, issues surrounding the rights of minority cultures to recognition and respect have raised new questions about the contemporariness of the construct of blasphemy and sacrilege. Controversies over the aesthetic representation of the sacred, the exhibition of the sacred as art, and the public display of sacrilegious or blasphemous works have given rise to heated debates and have invited us to reflect on binaries like artistic and religious sensibilities, tolerance and philistinism, the sacred and the profane, deification and vilification. Endeavouring to move beyond 'simplistic' points about the rights to freedom of expression and sacrosanctity, this collection explores how differences between conceptions of the sacred can be negotiated. It recognises that blasphemy may be justified as a form of political criticism, as well as a sincere expression of spirituality. But it also recognises that within a pluralistic society, blasphemy in the arts can do an enormous amount of harm, as it may also impair relations within and between societies. This collection evolved out a two-day conference called 'Negotiating the Sacred: Blasphemy and Sacrilege in the Arts' held at the Centre for Cross Cultural Research at The Australian National University in November 2005. This is the second volume in a series of five conferences and edited collections on the theme 'Negotiating the Sacred'. The first conference, 'Negotiating the Sacred: Blasphemy and Sacrilege in a Multicultural Society' was held at The Australian National University's Centre for Cross-Cultural Research in 2004, and published as an edited collection by ANU E Press in 2006. Other conferences in the series have included Religion, Medicine and the Body (ANU, 2006), Tolerance, Education and the Curriculum (ANU, 2007), and Governing the Family (Monash University, 2008). Together, the series represents a major contribution to ongoing debates on the political demands arising from religious pluralism in multicu ...
URL:kostenfrei: Volltext: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt24hb6q
 kostenfrei: Verlag: https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt24hb6q
Datenträger:Online-Ressource
Sprache:eng
Reproduktion:Print version: Negotiating the sacred 2. - Acton, A.C.T: ANU E Press, 2008
Bibliogr. Hinweis:Erscheint auch als : Druck-Ausgabe: Negotiating the sacred 2.
Sach-SW:Religion: general
 SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology of Religion
 Arts and religion
 Blasphemy
 Offenses against religion
 Religion and sociology
 Sacrilege
 Art, Architecture & Applied Arts
 Fine Arts - General
 Humanities
 Religion and beliefs
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