Product Description: Gerardus van der Leeuw was one of the first to attempt a rapprochement between theology and the arts, and his influence continues to be felt in what is now a burgeoning field. Sacred and Profane is the fullest expression of his pursuit of a theological aesthetics, surveying religion's relationship to all the arts -- dance, drama, literature, painting, sculpture, architecture, and music...read more

Product Description: Examines the multiple personae of Mary Magdalene illustrated throughout the canon of Western art.

Identifies goddesses, celestial beings, demons, and legendary women that appear in religious art around the world

Gathers poems about various aspects of the Holocaust, train journeys to death camps, Nazi atrocities, the gas chambers, the Polish ghetto, remembering the victims, the liberation of survivors, and the psychological scars on descendents (view table of contents)

Product Description: A collection of essays on women and creativity, containing classic texts in which authors voice fundamental questions about cultural perceptions of women, gender, sexuality, and creativity. In Part I, psychologists, art historians, literary critics, and sociologists address the roles of creative w...read more

Product Description: A collection of essays concerning religion and art, including contributions by Barbara Novak, Leo Steinberg, Paul Tillich, Wassily Kandinsky, John Dixon Jr., David Tracy, Joshua Taylor, and Langdon B. Gilkey.

Product Description: Christian Romanticism was a response to social changes within nineteenth-century American culture, including women's literacy, spiritual domesticity, and the idealization of childhood. This book examines the work of three artists of the first American landscape tradition -- Washington Alston, Thomas Cole, and Frederic Edwin Church -- and two clergymen -- Horace Bushnell and Henry Ward Beecher...read more

Product Description: Complete with over 160 illustrations, here is an invaluable reference guide for art lovers and students of Christian history, culture, art, or religion. "A tour de force (and) an indispensable reference to Christian motifs, subject matter, iconography and theology in visual art"...read more

Product Description: Major work is distinguished by an intensity of inspiration and an overwhelming sense of personal vision. This merging of inspiration and vision permits the creation of a classic oeuvre whose creator is deemed to be a 'master of his craft, ' or perhaps better, 'a seminal mind...read more