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The Weight of Bodily Presence in Art and Liturgy

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  • معلومة اضافية
    • بيانات النشر:
      Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute
    • الموضوع:
      2021
    • Collection:
      Texas State University: Digital Collections Repository
    • نبذة مختصرة :
      This essay addresses the question of virtual church, particularly on whether or not liturgy can be done virtually. We will approach our subject from a somewhat unusual perspective by looking to types of aesthetic experiences which we have been doing “virtually” for a long time. By exploring how we experience art in virtual and physical contexts, we gain insight into the corresponding experiences in liturgical practices. Drawing on Mikel Dufrenne, Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Gabriel Marcel, I first examine the importance of the body when we experience “presence” in aesthetic environments. Next, I consider the weight of the body in experiences of presence in liturgical practices, both in person and virtual, guided again by Gabriel Marcel as well as Bruce Ellis Benson, Emmanuel Falque, Christina Gschwandtner and Éric Palazzo. Through these reflections, I argue that what art teaches us about the significance of the physical closeness of the human applies to the practice of liturgy and that, while unexpected benefits will surface in virtual settings, nothing replaces the powerful experiences that arise when the body is physically present. ; Philosophy
    • File Description:
      Text; 14 pages; 1 file (.pdf); application/pdf
    • Relation:
      Venable, H. (2021). The weight of bodily presence in art and liturgy. Religions, 12(3), 164.; https://hdl.handle.net/10877/14138; https://doi.org/10.3390/rel12030164
    • الرقم المعرف:
      10.3390/rel12030164
    • الدخول الالكتروني :
      https://hdl.handle.net/10877/14138
      https://doi.org/10.3390/rel12030164
    • Rights:
      © 2021 The Author. ; This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
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