This dissertation argues that the biblical imagery of Gustave Doré (1832-83) successfully conveyed various modern ways of encountering the Bible, in both sacred and secular contexts. Doré was one of the most popular artists in nineteenth-century Europe and America, and his images have continued to be widely reproduced (to date, his Bible illustrations have been incorporated into over 700 publications). Emerging at a time when the Bible was taking on cultural roles beyond the moral and theological, Doré's images negotiated the challenges facing biblical representation, and introduced generations around the world to a new and modern way of understanding Judeo-Christian scripture. From the emergence of the "Bible as literature," to Holy Land archaeology, to the spectacularization of biblical narratives, to modern religious pedagogy, the impact of Doré's biblical pictures was felt on a scale heretofore unknown. More broadly, this project deals with the intersection of art, religion, and modernity through the study of one influential artist. The history of Doré's images extends across temporal, geographical, and denominational boundaries, and is crucial for understanding how the Bible has maintained its sacred and secular functions through the present day. Despite his centrality to the nineteenth-century art world, Doré's work has maintained a relatively marginal place in standard art histories. Art historians and sociologists of religion are becoming increasingly interested in the importance of religious imagery in modernity and Doré's works are often invoked, but there has yet to be a sustained study of the forms, history, and persuasive power of his images. Redressing art history's meager attention to modern religious art, I hope not only to recuperate Doré for art history, but also, more generally, to demonstrate how religious art helped make us modern.

This thesis offers a multi-faceted exploration of image worship theology and practice within a Vaishnava Hindu theistic devotional tradition founded in the sixteenth century, flourishing today largely in north and northeast India and, since recently, spreading worldwide. The thesis serves two aims. First, it augments existing scholarship on Hindu temple image worship and Caitanya (Gaudīya) Vaishņavism by focusing on two contemporary temple communities one in the north Indian pilgrimage centre Vrindavan, the second near Watford, outside London. These represent, respectively, an "embodied community" and a "missionizing tradition," following Barbara Holdrege's typology in her studies of Hindu and Jewish traditions. By considering the practice of worship (mūrti-sevā) in terms of two persistent themes, namely rule-governed practice (vaidhī-sādhana) and emotion-driven practice (rāgānuga-sādhana), I show how the elements of "embodiment" and "missionizing" blend to produce variations on the overarching theme of Krsna bhakti, devotion to Kŗşna as the supreme divinity. Second, by focusing on the divine image in these two temples and the practice of worship, I offer one study of how "religious truth" is understood within these communities in terms of three dimensions of truth proposed by the Comparative Religious Ideas Project at Boston University (1995-1999; Robert C. Neville, et al., Religious Truth, State University of New York Press, 2001). At the same time I offer an attempt to extend the scope of that project by adding the dimensions of physical image and ritual practice to its existing dimension, religious ideas. I show how the central notion of devotion to Kŗşna as God (bhagavān) entails a complex web of discursive, ritual, and narrative expression to sustain image worship as a truth of embodiment/practice (the opposite of failure) which is also expressive truth (the opposite of deceit) that follows from propositional/epistemological truth (the opposite of error).

Thesis (Th. D.)--Grace Theological Seminary, 1988. / Abstract. Vita. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 235-264).

Thesis (M.A. in Theological Studies)--Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, 2002. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 99-105).

Thesis (Th. M.)--St. Vladimir's Orthodox Theological Seminary, Crestwood, NY, 1999. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 273-286).

Thesis (M.A. in Theological Studies)--Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, 2002. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 99-105).

Thesis (M.A. in Theological Studies)--Associated Mennonite Biblical Seminary, 2002. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 99-105).

Orientador: Sergio Stucchi / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação Fisica / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-08T21:05:18Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Giglio_SergioSettani_M.pdf: 2020058 bytes, checksum: 5294b747f6607a34a41003f72f4c4e1a (MD5) Previous issue date: 2007 / Resumo: Este trabalho procura traçar uma visão abrangente da complexidade e importância do ídolo e do herói no futebol, procurando compreender sua influência nas decisões de transformar sonhos de infância em profissão. Como auxílio para esta compreensão e análise, utilizou-se de instrumentos da Antropologia, com base em referenciais da etnografia, entre eles a entrevista intensiva e a análise de documentos. Foram entrevistadas onze (11) pessoas que compõem o cenário futebolístico, sendo nove jogadores profissionais e dois ex-jogadores profissionais. O referencial teórico foi traçado de modo a compreender a importância do futebol na vida do brasileiro, da sua chegada como uma atividade de lazer e como rapidamente transformou-se em um ¿habitus¿ local. Entendendo o futebol como um jogo absorvente, procurou-se definir mito e imaginário para entender algumas questões recorrentes ao futebol brasileiro. As questões discutidas foram: a figura de Charles Miller como o introdutor do futebol no Brasil, o ópio do povo, futebol como identidade nacional, o dom no futebol, o debate sobre o estilo de jogo, conhecido como futebol-arte e futebol-força, e as questões relativas ao sonho de ser jogador profissional (início, tentativa e concretização do sonho). Todos os tópicos são apresentados como um suporte para a discussão central da dissertação, sendo que mito e imaginário servem de base para a investigação sobre os ídolos e heróis no futebol, a importância deles no processo, as diferenças conceituais e a influência dessas figuras na construção do sonho de ser jogador profissional / Abstract: This study tries to delineate a broad view of the idol and hero importance and complexity in football, in order to comprehend its influence of transforming childhood dreams in profession. For its understanding and analysis, we used anthropology instruments based on ethnography referential, which were the intensive interview and the document analysis. Eleven (11) people who compose the football view were interviewed, nine professional players and two ex professional players. The theoretical referential sought to understand the football importance in Brazilian lives, from its arrival as a leisure activity, until it became a local ¿habitus¿. Considering football as an absorbent game, we tried to define myth and imaginary to comprehend the several questions about Brazilian football. The discussed issues were: the Charles Miller character as the football introducer in Brazil, the people¿s opium, football as a national identity, the gift in football, the debate about game style, known as art football and strength football, and the matters related to the dream of being a professional player (beginning, attempt, and dream coming true). All the topics are presented as a support for the central discussion of the study, considering myth and imaginary as the basis for this investigation about idols and heroes in Brazilian football, their importance in the process, the conceptual differences and the influences of these characters on the creation of the dream of being a professional player / Mestrado / Educação Fisica e Sociedade / Mestre em Educação Física

李志誠. / "2013年8月". / "2013 nian 8 yue". / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 2013. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 143-151). / Electronic reproduction. Hong Kong : Chinese University of Hong Kong, [2012] System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Available via World Wide Web. / Abstract in Chinese and English. / Li Zhicheng.

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