Tastes of the Divine : Hindu and Christian Theologies of Emotion / Michelle Voss Roberts.
Roberts, Michelle Voss, author.
2014
BR128.H5 V68 2014
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Title Tastes of the Divine : Hindu and Christian Theologies of Emotion / Michelle Voss Roberts.
Author Roberts, Michelle Voss, author.
ISBN 9780823257423
DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823257423
Published New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2014]
Copyright ©2014
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (296 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1515/9780823257423 doi
Call Number BR128.H5 V68 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification 204/.2
Summary 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, flavor, or essence, Indian aesthetic theory conceptualizes emotional states as something to be savored. At their core, emotions can be tastes of the divine. In this book, the methods of the emerging discipline of comparative theology enable the author's appreciation of Hindu texts and practices to illuminate her Christian reflections on aesthetics and emotion.Three emotions vie for prominence in the religious sphere: peace, love, and fury. Whereas Indian theorists following Abhinavagupta claim that the aesthetic emotion of peace best approximates the goal of religious experience, devotees of Krishna and medieval Christian readings of the Song of Songs argue that love communicates most powerfully with divinity. In response to the transcendence emphasized in both approaches, the book turns to fury at injustice to attend to emotion's foundations in the material realm. The implications of this constructive theology of emotion for Christian liturgy, pastoral care, and social engagement are manifold.
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Series Comparative Theology: Thinking Across Traditions ; 5
In Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Frontmatter
CONTENTS
ABBREVIATIONS
SANSKRIT PRONUNCIATION GUIDE
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Introduction: RASA
Part I: Peace
1. The Bliss of Peace
2. Suffering and Peace
Part II: Love
3. The Rasa of Love In carnate
4. A Dilemma of Feeling
5. Love, Bodies, and Others
Part III: Fury
6. Dalit Arts and the Failure of Aesthetics
7. Fury as a Religious Sentiment
Part IV: Tastes of the Divine
8. Toward a Holistic Th eology of the Emotions
9. Wonder
NOTES
Glossary of Sanskrit Terms
Bibliography
Index

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