The Oxford Encyclopedia of Religion and the Arts
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Religion and the Arts in the West: Renaissance to the Present
This thematic collection of essays is designed to shore up the coverage in the ORE Religion in this fascinating subfield, which has seen an explosion of academic and popular interest. The collection will consist of approx. 120–150 essays that will explore key topics in the study of the role of arts in religion in Western modernity. All of the articles appear online as part of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Religion.
Volume Editor
Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, Georgetown University
Associate Editors
Zohar Hadromi-Allouch, University of Aberdeen
Heidi J. Hornik, Baylor University
Edward van Voolen, Jewish Historical Museum Amsterdam
Barbara von Barghahn, The George Washington University
Richard Viladesau, Fordham University
Major Topics
Aesthetics
Critical Theory
Visual Art
Film
Architecture/Sacred Spaces
Gender Studies
Ritual/Worship
Museums
Spain, Portugal, and the New World Art & Architecture
Islamic Art
African, African-American, and Caribbean Art
Articles
Aniconism (Milette Gaifman)
Arts and Ethics: Questions (David Fenner)
Arts and Ethics: Overview (Iain Robertson)
Bible and Film (Richard Walsh)
Christian Feminist Theology and the Arts (Elizabeth Ursic)
Christian Sacred Architecture (David Bains)
Churches, Grand Retables, and Ceiling Paintings in Portugal during the 16th and 17th Centuries (Giuseppina Raggi)
Contemporary Visual Art and Religion (Dominic Colonna)
Conventual Visual Culture in Ecuador (Carmen Fernández-Salvador)
Dance, Religion, and the Legacy of European Colonialism (Kimerer LaMothe)
Decorated, Illuminated, and Illustrated Bibles (Jonathan Homrighausen)
Devotional Art in Viceregal Latin America (Marcus Burke)
Devotional Images of the Virgin Mary in Spain (María del Mar Doval Trueba)
Ecofeminism, Religion, and the Arts in the West (Jane Caputi)
Exhibitions and Displays of Religious Art (Maia Wellington Gahtan)
Faith and Devotion: Reading Ceramic Architectural Programmes from the Baroque Period (Rosário Salema Carvalho)
Feminism and Religious Art: Overview (Katy Deepwell)
Feminism, Art, and Religion in the North Atlantic (Natalie Carnes)
Guatemalan Churches: The Maya Legacy in Organic Façades (Carol Damian)
“Have mercy on us”: Inca Heritage, Christianity and Salvation in Colonial Cuzco (Sebastian Ferrero)
Holocaust Art (Chloë Julius)
Holy Books and Manuscripts (Mikeal C. Parsons)
Holy Week and the Theater of Art: Sculpture, Retables, and the Spanish Baroque Aesthetic (Rafael Japón)
Human Body in Islamic Art (Wendy M. K. Shaw)
Iconography and Iconology (Davor Džalto)
Iconophobia and Iconophilia (Davor Džalto)
Idol and Idolatry (Stacy Boldrick)
‘In My Father’s House’ (John 14:2): Sacred Domiciles and Secular Residences in Iberoamerican Art as Metaphorical Architecture of Devotion (Barbara von Barghahn)
Islam and Art: An Overview (Wendy M. K. Shaw)
Islamic Pilgrimage (Mounia Chekhab-Abudaya)
Islamic Relics (Richard McGregor)
Jewish Art in the Modern Era (Larry Silver, Samantha Baskind)
Jewish Ritual Objects (Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek)
Judaism and Visual Art (Melissa Raphael)
Kabbalah in Art and Architecture (Batsheva Goldman-Ida)
Liturgical and Ceremonial Art: Preaching and Visual Culture in the Early Modern World (Nirit Ben-Aryeh Debby)
Material Culture and Religion (David Morgan)
Mexican Monastic Architecture (Niccolò Brooker)
Museums and Exhibitions: Overview and History (Maia Wellington Gahtan)
Museums Dedicated to Religious Art (Maia Wellington Gahtan)
Neoclassicism and Religious Art in Eighteenth-Century Europe (Allison Palmer)
Overview of Architecture and Religion Since 1500 (Thomas Barrie)
Overview of Religious Art and Architecture: Native American (Karla Cavarra Britton)
Pilgrimage Centers and Relics in Catholic Spain (María del Mar Doval Trueba, Barbara von Barghahn)
The Qurʾan in Manuscript, Print, and Digital Form (Alba Fedeli)
Relics and Pilgrimage in Western Europe (Janet Ellen Snyder)
Relics and Reliquaries in Colonial Mexico (Gabriela Sánchez Reyes)
Religion, New Media, and Digital Culture (Giulia Evolvi)
Religious Art and Architecture in Eighteenth-Century Europe (Sean DeLouche)
Ritual (Barry Stephenson)
Roman Catholic Art After L’Art Sacré and Vatican II (Inge Linder-Gaillard)
Sacred Place and Sacred Places (Tim Gorringe)
Secularization and Sacred Space (David Bains)
Spirituality and Contemporary Art (Rina Arya)
Synagogue Architecture: An Overview (Sergey R. Kravtsov)
Nomadic Shelters, Mystical Staircases and Cosmic Chambers in Iberoamerican Art (Barbara von Barghahn)
The Passion of Christ in the New World (Alena Robin)
Toledo, Ávila, and Mysticism (Macarena Moralejo Ortega)
Visual Arts: Christian Visual Art (Christine E. Joynes)
Visual Arts: Abstraction (Paula Wisotzki)
Visual Arts: Islamic Art (Walter B. Denny)
Visual Arts: Modern Art (Jonathan A. Anderson)
Visual Arts: Postmodernism (Meredith Munson)
Visual Arts: Protestant (Bobbi Dykema)
Visual Arts: Realism and Naturalism (Linda Stratford, William Dyrness)
Visual Arts: Reformation and Counterreformation (Reforms of Trent and Catholic Art) (Richard Viladesau)
Visual Arts: Renaissance (Heidi J. Hornik)
Women in Religious Art (Diane Apostolos-Cappadona)
