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This book traces a recovery of iconographic religious experience and theology in the nineteenth century. In contrast to a logocentric religious focus, which privileges texts and their analysis, an iconographic focus emphasizes the visual and narrative attributes of religion.

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the recovery of iconographic theology and religious experience from 1850 to 2000

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  • Hardcover

    214 pages

  • Release Date

    30 June 2017

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Summary

This book traces a recovery of iconographic religious experience and theology in the nineteenth century. In contrast to a logocentric religious focus, which privileges texts and their analysis, an iconographic focus emphasizes the visual and narrative attributes of religion. The introduction sets the stage by discussing the profound disquietude in the wake of Britain’s Religious Census of 1851, along with the various responses to a perceived decline in religiosity. Two subsequent chapters …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781433138881
ISBN-10:1433138883
Author:Stewart A. Dippel
Publisher:Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint:Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Format:Hardcover
Number of Pages:214
Release Date:30 June 2017
Weight:450g
Dimensions:225mm x 150mm
Series:American University Studies
About The Author

Stewart A. Dippel

Stewart Dippel holds a Ph.D. from Ohio State University. For the last twenty-five years he has taught history and political science at the University of the Ozarks in Clarksville, Arkansas. His published dissertation and three subsequent books are on seventeenth-century religious history.

The Rev. Jeffrey Champlin is an ordained priest of the Episcopal Church. He has served congregations in Connecticut, Kansas, and Arkansas. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University (1978) and Yale Divinity School (1983). For the last four years, he has served as an instructor in the Iona Project, a church-wide program to provide through Dioceses academic and pastoral formation for locally-prepared candidates for ordination.

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