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Author: Peter W. Williams Publisher: UNC Press Books ISBN: 1469626985 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 294
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This cultural history of mainline Protestantism and American cities--most notably, New York City--focuses on wealthy, urban Episcopalians and the influential ways they used their money. Peter W. Williams argues that such Episcopalians, many of them the country's most successful industrialists and financiers, left a deep and lasting mark on American urban culture. Their sense of public responsibility derived from a sacramental theology that gave credit to the material realm as a vehicle for religious experience and moral formation, and they came to be distinguished by their participation in major aesthetic and social welfare endeavors. Williams traces how the church helped transmit a European-inflected artistic patronage that was adapted to the American scene by clergy and laity intent upon providing moral and aesthetic leadership for a society in flux. Episcopalian influence is most visible today in the churches, cathedrals, and elite boarding schools that stand in many cities and other locations, but Episcopalians also provided major support to the formation of stellar art collections, the performing arts, and the Arts and Crafts movement. Williams argues that Episcopalians thus helped smooth the way for acceptance of materiality in religious culture in a previously iconoclastic, Puritan-influenced society.
Author: Peter W. Williams Publisher: UNC Press Books ISBN: 1469626985 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 294
Book Description
This cultural history of mainline Protestantism and American cities--most notably, New York City--focuses on wealthy, urban Episcopalians and the influential ways they used their money. Peter W. Williams argues that such Episcopalians, many of them the country's most successful industrialists and financiers, left a deep and lasting mark on American urban culture. Their sense of public responsibility derived from a sacramental theology that gave credit to the material realm as a vehicle for religious experience and moral formation, and they came to be distinguished by their participation in major aesthetic and social welfare endeavors. Williams traces how the church helped transmit a European-inflected artistic patronage that was adapted to the American scene by clergy and laity intent upon providing moral and aesthetic leadership for a society in flux. Episcopalian influence is most visible today in the churches, cathedrals, and elite boarding schools that stand in many cities and other locations, but Episcopalians also provided major support to the formation of stellar art collections, the performing arts, and the Arts and Crafts movement. Williams argues that Episcopalians thus helped smooth the way for acceptance of materiality in religious culture in a previously iconoclastic, Puritan-influenced society.
Author: Marc Shell Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 9780226752136 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 256
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A frank, provocative, and entirely unconventional look at two worlds in tandem--the realms of money and art. Profusely illustrated, the book investigates how money becomes (or is) artwork and how artwork comes to assume some of the characteristics of money. 9 color plates; 100 halftones.
Author: Babajide Olowodola Publisher: ISBN: 9789785416039 Category : Languages : en Pages : 204
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The shelves are replete with books on money, ranging from the secular, to the academic, to the philosophical and to the religious. The attempt here is not to add to that very long list but to provide a one-stop shop for believers to appreciate their covenant rights and access those things that have been freely given to them by God. To the intent that they run with the desire to store up their treasures in Heaven where thieves do not break in to steal and where money does not fail. The first thing to do therefore is to agree on basic definition.This book demystifies the fables and fairy tales surrounding money as a tool and a convenience. In this book, we show both the high and the lowly how to work through it - get it, keep it, use it, and hand it over to the generation after you once it has been profitable to you among other objectives.
Author: Richard E. Spear Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 9780300070354 Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 454
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In this highly original study of Italian baroque master Guido Reni (1575-1642), Richard Spear paints a compelling portrait of the artist - his complexities, his formative experiences, his cultural surroundings, and his unique sensibilities. Spear views Reni's career from a wide variety of perspectives and sets his life and works in social, economic, historical, artistic, religious, and psychological contexts. The author focuses first on Reni's peculiar character: a man at once deeply religious, rabidly misogynist, reportedly virginal, neurotically fearful of witches, and addicted to gambling. The author considers the enduring charisma of Reni's Crucifixions, weeping Marys, and repentant saints in the light of the Catholic doctrinal meaning of grace in Reni's time, the Church's attitude toward Mary and women, and the gendered implications of visual grace. Chapters on Reni's pricing policies, selling strategies, use of assistants, and attitude toward what constituted an "original", expose the motivating importance of money for Reni, and the concerns, even among seventeenth-century collectors, about how to distinguish original paintings from studio replicas or copies. The book investigates the ways renaissance and baroque attitudes toward art-making affected Reni and closes with a fresh view of Reni's unfinished canvases and last style, including the Divine Love, the beautiful and unusual painting that remained in Reni's studio at the time of his death.
Author: Gloria Price Publisher: Independently Published ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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This book releases the compelling truth about the root of defeat in the Christian walk concerning 'Binding on earth and binding in heaven and loosing on earth and loosing in heaven.' - Matthew 18:20. How many times have you gone through the motion of touching and agreeing and binding and loosing regarding certain matters only to find that nothing seemed to have changed? Bound up finances have been a major source of strongholds for what seems like centuries in the lives of Christian believers. Will you have yours... Loosed today?
Author: James David Hudnut-Beumler Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press ISBN: 0807830798 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 288
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Every day of the week in contemporary America (and especially on Sundays) people raise money for their religious enterprises--for clergy, educators, buildings, charity, youth-oriented work, and more. In a fascinating look into the economics of American Pr
Author: Mark C. Taylor Publisher: University of Chicago Press ISBN: 9780226791623 Category : Computers Languages : en Pages : 308
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"Religion," Mark C. Taylor maintains, "is most interesting where it is least obvious." From global financial networks to the casinos of Las Vegas, from images flickering on computer terminals to steel sculpture, material culture bears unexpected traces of the divine. In a world where the economies of faith are obscure, yet pervasive, Taylor shows that approaching religion directly is less instructive than thinking about it. Traveling from high culture to pop culture and back again, About Religion approaches cyberspace and Las Vegas through Hegel and Kant and reads Melville's The Confidence-Man through the film Wall Street. As astonishing juxtapositions and associations proliferate, formerly uncharted territories of virtual culture disclose theological vestiges, showing that faith in contemporary culture is as unavoidable as it is elusive. The most accessible presentation of Taylor's revolutionary ideas to date, About Religion gives us a dazzling and disturbing vision of life at the end of the old and beginning of the new millennium.
Author: Anthony Padgett Publisher: Lulu.com ISBN: 095615879X Category : Art Languages : en Pages : 184
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An essential book on a broad range of World religions (Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Gnosticism, etc) Modern art forms (Romanticism, Cubism, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, YBAs, Postmodernism etc) and artists. This analysis gets to the heart of what constitutes religious art in a modern age. The book includes the work of art theorists (Benjamin, Greenberg, Debord, Bakhtin, Bataille, Sontag, Derrida) and over 120 key artists.
Author: R. Duane Willing Publisher: ISBN: 9780978226503 Category : International finance Languages : en Pages : 236
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The book is about how money functions as a religion. Its god Moloch is hidden in plain sight in the saga of Bible personalities and stories. The Moloch is the God that does not forgive. Israel was not intended as a people nor a place name. The temple and congregation of God Moloch are effectively indifferent to the primary human obligation of stewardship of planet Earth. The lust of god Moloch through his temple, as it appears in current structures of central banking and stock markets, dominates all other religious traditions through the "psychic" fire called ROI and interest rates. These are called usury and prohibited in scripture. The obligation of human enterprise to accomplish stewardship of the planet and prosper in harmony with nature involves two rules; 1, do not soil the water; 2, do not attempt to regulate life by usury. The text mentions how the powers of the religion of money resist and destroy opposition such as in: The assassination of Lincoln and JFK; The World Trade Center destruction; The driving force of war; The bizarre infatuation with Pres Billy Cs "knickers"; The corporate undermining of the US Constitution. All these, plus insight on the real meaning of the Holy Grail, are integrated into a story of how money rules over life rather than serves humanity toward a prosperity in harmony with nature. - Publisher.
Author: Peter W. Williams
Author: Peter W. Williams
Author: Marc Shell
Author: Babajide Olowodola
Author: A. R. Cooper
Author: Richard E. Spear
Author: Gloria Price
Author: James David Hudnut-Beumler
Author: Mark C. Taylor
Author: Anthony Padgett
Author: R. Duane Willing