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Religions, Volume 10, Issue 5

May 2019 - 52 articles

Cover Story: In the eyes of his contemporaries, Michelangelo was a controversial figure. Deemed by many as ‘a divine artist’, he was also criticized for his religious scenes, which raised doubts with respect to either their theological accuracy or moral appropriateness. In the mid-sixteenth century, Pietro Aretino praised the Medici tombs as carved by ‘the god of sculpture’, but he also maliciously noted that Mary, in the Vatican Pietà, was too young compared to her son, and he vehemently condemned the Last Judgment fresco as an indecent painting. Along the same path, an anonymous author of the 1540s labeled Michelangelo as an ‘inventor of filth saving the art but not the devotion’. However, Michelangelo did become a powerful inventor of mass-reproduced devotional images with several pious prints clearly—even indirectly, and without referencing his name—making use of his Vatican Pietà. View this paper
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Articles (52)

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
7,715 Views
16 Pages

27 May 2019

The paper sheds light on the change in the concept of obedience within the Society of Jesus since the 1960s. In the aftermath of the Second Vatican Council, a so-called crisis of authority and obedience took place in the Catholic Church and the relig...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
7,125 Views
13 Pages

27 May 2019

Buddhist aesthetics, as a profound intrinsic value of pleasure, has continually attracted scholars to shed light on its influential effects. Its aesthetic nature, however, has drawn on the laws of profound Buddhist thoughts, which is challenging for...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,053 Views
13 Pages

27 May 2019

The current paper will concentrate on the lion featured in Vittore Carpaccio’s Meditation on the Passion. The multiple meanings of the lion in primary sources will serve as a key towards demonstrating the concept of prophecy, one of the multi-level m...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,710 Views
15 Pages

25 May 2019

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, the largest and arguably best-known branch of the Restoration movement begun by Joseph Smith, sustains a complex but living relationship to nineteenth-century marginal millenarianism and apocalypticism...

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6 Citations
16,495 Views
31 Pages

25 May 2019

In this essay, “In God We Trust”, the official motto of the United States, is discussed as an illustration of the contested character of American civil religion. Applying and evaluating assumptions from Robert N. Bellah and his critics, a...

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3,836 Views
13 Pages

24 May 2019

Critical realism as a lens of thought is not new to theological inquiry, but recently a growing number of theologians have been using its conceptual frameworks to guide their thought on how social structures function theologically, and how ethics mig...

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5 Citations
16,569 Views
19 Pages

22 May 2019

Bauls, the rural minstrels who sing songs of transformation, are a socio-economically and politico-religiously marginalized cultural population from rural Bengal (both from eastern and north-eastern, India and from Bangladesh). They identify themselv...

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8 Citations
5,378 Views
12 Pages

22 May 2019

This article presents the ways Orthodox countries form their own discourses for heritage representation and observes how these practices interact with emerging tourism and preservation agendas. Recent history of heritage tourism in Russia and Ethiopi...

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