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In this broad historical and critical overview based on a lifetime of scholarship, James Alfred Martin, Jr., examines the development of the concepts of beauty and holiness as employed in theories of aesthetics and of religion. The injunction in the Book of Psalms to "worship the Lord in the beauty of holiness" addressed a tradition that has comprehended holiness primarily in terms of ethical righteousness--a conception that has strongly influenced Western understandings of religion. As the author points out, however, the Greek forbears of Western thought, as well as many Eastern traditions, were and are more broadly concerned with the pursuit of beauty, truth, and goodness as ideals of human excellence, that is, with the "holiness of beauty." In this work Martin describes a philosophical stance that should prove to be most productive for the dialogue between aesthetics and religion.Beginning with the treatment of beauty and holiness in Hebrew, Greek, and classical Christian thought, the author traces the emergence of modern theories of aesthetics and religion in the Enlightenment. He then outlines the role of aesthetics in the theories of religion proposed by Otto, Eliade, van der Leeuw, and Tillich, in the cultural anthropology of Geertz, and in the thought of Santayana, Dewey, Whitehead, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein. In a global context Martin explores the relation of aesthetic theory to religious thought in the traditions of India, China, and Japan and concludes with reflections on the viability of modern aesthetic and religious theory in the light of contemporary cultural and methodological pluralism.Originally published in 1990.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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L’islam offre deux visages : celui d’un monothéisme abstrait, où domine la transcendance de Dieu, au risque d’engendrer le fanatisme. Mais aussi, et surtout, celui, plus discret, mais non moins insistant, d’un monothéisme concret, qui valorise la manifestation visible de l’essence de Dieu dans l’apparition sensible des actions divines. Dans cette étude pionnière qui surprendra par sa liberté de ton, Souâd Ayada renouvelle en profondeur notre connaissance des systèmes de pensée qui ont fondé l’islam des théophanies. Un modèle de sagesse aux antipodes de l’austérité coranique, selon lequel Dieu se donne à voir par l’entremise de l’« homme parfait » et par toutes les formes de beauté qui révèlent sa majesté. Réconciliant l’amour, l’intelligence et la connaissance, cette conception de la révélation, notamment portée par le soufisme, préserve l’islam de toute dérive juridique et politique, et accorde à l’art toute sa place. Elle constitue l’antidote que l’islam a lui-même produit pour guérir le mal du dogmatisme et l’intolérance. Dévoilant les impasses et les contradictions du fondamentalisme, dialoguant avec les sources juives et chrétiennes, confrontant le message du soufisme à la philosophie de Hegel ou à la pensée d’Emmanuel Levinas, Souâd Ayada signe un livre essentiel, en forme de plaidoyer pour une approche audacieuse, exigeante et ouverte de l’islam.

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