Religion and Contemporary Art: A Curious Accord

Cover\nHalf Title\nTitle Page\nCopyright Page\nTable of Contents\nAcknowledgments\nIntroduction\nPart I: Theoretical and Interpretative Frameworks\n	1 The New Visibility of Religion in Contemporary Art: Four Interpretive Horizons\n	2 Exploring Theological Dimensions of the Work of Art\n	3 Translating Religion: Contemporary Art through a Postsecular Lens\n	4 The Question of Criticism: What to Do with Our Revelations?\n	5 Curating Faith: Art, Religion, and the Curatorial\n	6 A Loving Regard: Contemporary Art and Expanding the Archive\n	7 Exhibition as Pilgrimage: Visual Strategies for Interfaith Dialogue\nPart II: Artistic Strategies\n	8 Iconic: Contemporary Portraiture and Sacred Personhood\n	9 Relic-ing Now: Reliquary Strategies of Materiality and Memory in Contemporary Art\n	10 Contemporary Art as Pilgrimage and Site: Ambrosio’s As Far As The Eye Can Travel Zine Project\n	11 Rogue Priests: Ritual, Sacrament, and Witness in Contemporary Art\n	12 Walking Naked and Barefoot: When Ancient Jewish Prophets Meet Avant-Garde Performance Artists\n	13 Revisiting “Art in the Dark”: Thomas McEvilley, Performance Art, and the End(s) of Shamanism\n	14 Infused with Light: Christian Traces in Multimedia Installation Art\n	15 Bill Viola, the Icon, and the Apophatic Sublime\nPart III: Case Studies of Artists and Artworks\n	16 The Lived Religion of Andy Warhol\n	17 “A King Aesthetic?” Tim Rollins and K.O.S. and the Ethos of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.\n	18 From the Wounds, Grace: John August Swanson and the Theological Aesth/Ethics of Liberation\n	19 Cities of Light: Phillip K. Smith III and the Light & Space Movement\n	20 Performativity and the Flesh: The Economy of the Icon in Lia Chavez’s Light Body\n	21 Theaster Gates and the Good Use of Forgotten Things\n	22 On Preaching, Performance Art, and Television: Christian Jankowski’s The Holy Artwork\n	23 Tools of the Apocalypse: Eschatology in Contemporary Jewish and Catholic Art\n	24 Back to the Garden: Utopia and Paradise in the work of Jim Shaw, Liza Lou, Shirin Neshat, and Shoja Azari\n	25 Deep Waters: Art and the Revival of Religion in Contemporary China\n	26 Salvation in the Fallen World: On Meng Yan’s Recent Monumental Works\n	27 Chrysanne Stathacos, Charwei Tsai: The Mandala\n	28 Performing Memory and Mourning: Diane Victor’s Martyred Women\n	29 Weaving Land and Water: On the Poetics of Diasporic and Indigenous Resistance\n	30 Al Buraq: Explorations of Liminality in Contemporary Islamic Art\nAfterword: A Colloquy with Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, James Elkins, Ben Quash, and S. Brent Rodriguez-Plate\nContributors: Biographical Notes\nCredits\nIndex