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Argues that it is important to experience God through place in all its variety - nature, landscape art, architecture, gardens, sports venues, pilgrimage, maps, and town planning. This book debates religious consciousness in cultural and artistic...

Are fictional elaborations of the lives of biblical figures or of the saints of any relevance to our own day? The author argues not only that they are, but also that it was only through such imaginative developments that Christianity ensured the...

An exploration of the ways in which the symbolic associations of the body and what we do with it have helped shape religious experience and continue to do so. David Brown writes excitingly about the potential of dance and music - including pop,...

In this wide-ranging book that moves from Greek drama to modern poetry, from the meaning of the Logos to the history of vestments, David Brown explores the ways in which poetry and drama in the past were rooted in religious questions. Their creative...

Revelation is seen as a gift from God given only once. The author challenges this idea by examining the effect cultural development has on religious belief, narrative, and art, and exploring the nature of the relationship between historical and...