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Tastes of the Divine : Hindu and Christian Theologies of Emotion /

The intensity and meaningfulness of aesthetic experience have often been described in theological terms. By designating basic human emotions as rasa, a word that connotes taste, flavour, or essence, Indian aesthetic theory conceptualises emotional states as something to be savoured. At their core, e...

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Autor principal: Voss Roberts, Michelle (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Rasa
  • I. Peace
  • The bliss of peace
  • Suffering and peace
  • II. Love
  • The rasa of love incarnate
  • A dilemma of feeling
  • Love, bodies, and others
  • III. Fury
  • Dalit arts and the failure of aesthetics
  • Fury as a religious sentiment
  • IV. Tastes of the divine
  • Toward a holistic theology of the emotions
  • Wonder.