By Philip S. Francis, Randall Balmer
The tales collected in those pages lay naked the facility of the humanities to unsettle and remodel deeply ingrained non secular ideals and practices. This ebook grounds its narrative within the money owed of eighty two Evangelicals who underwent a sea-change of spiritual identification throughout the intervention of the humanities. "There by no means may were an undoing of my conservative Evangelical worldview" confides one younger guy, "without my come upon with the transcendent paintings of Mark Rothko on that wet afternoon in London's Tate Modern." "The characters in The Brothers Karamazov began to think like kinfolk to me," stories another person, "and the doubts of Ivan Karamazov slowly saturated my soul." As their tales spread, the topics of the examine describe the humanities as resources of, via turns, "defamiliarization," "comfort in uncertainty," "a stand-in for religion" and a "surrogate transcendence." Drawing on memoirs, interviews, and box notes, Philip Salim Francis explores the complicated interrelationship of faith and paintings within the glossy West, and gives a massive new source for on-going debates in regards to the position of the humanities in schooling and social life.
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