Sociology, Religion and Grace

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ISBN: 9780415371964 | 0415371961
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Copyright: 12/12/2006

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"Sociology, Religion and Grace provides a sociological analysis of the Renaissance. The book focuses on the concept of grace, and the unity that exists between its various meanings: theological (the grace of God and the gift of life), anthropological (the foundational role of gift-giving in society, according to Marcel Mauss; and the pleasure of sociability, according to Georg Simmel), and aesthetical (beauty and gracefulness)."--BOOK JACKET.

Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgements	p. xviii
Introduction: Grace and gift-giving beyond charisma	p. 1
The paradox of grace	p. 1
The meanings of grace	p. 1
Approaching a typology grace through rites of passage	p. 2
A typology grace through the logic of gift-giving	p. 4
From universal generality to singular particularity	p. 7
Outline/chapter structure	p. 10
The births and re-births of grace in Antiquity	p. 13
Introduction to part 1: the Minoan and Judaic roots of Europe	p. 15
Coincidence and conjecture	p. 15
Henri Frankfort on Hebrew transcendence against nature	p. 16
Henrietta Groenewegen-Frankfort on Minoan grace of nature	p. 16
Minoan Grace	p. 19
Kerenyi on the Minoan Dionysos	p. 19
Themes in Minoan art	p. 20
The sudden emergence of Minoan civilisation	p. 24
An attempt at interpretation: a religion of womanhood?	p. 26
A Minoan Trickster?	p. 28
Concluding remarks	p. 29
Grace in Greece	p. 30
Greek myths	p. 31
The Cretan origins of Greek mythology	p. 32
Grace in Athens	p. 38
Athens's golden age	p. 45
Themistocles	p. 48
Pericles	p. 49
Socrates: graceful speech without beauty	p. 53
The Three Graces	p. 54
The Graces in mythology	p. 54
The Three Graces in art	p. 57
The Graces and the Furies; or the counter-spiral	p. 61
Conclusion to part 1	p. 65
The experiential bases of Tuscan Renaissance painting	p. 67
Introduction to part 2: what is the Renaissance? Franciscan renewal vs. revival of Pagan Antiquity	p. 69
The Tuscan Renaissance	p. 71
Lucca	p. 72
Pisa	p. 74
Siena	p. 78
Florence	p. 81
The Tuscan 'maniera greca' and its experiential bases	p. 88
What is the 'maniera greca'?	p. 88
1204-5: the epochal experiential knot	p. 90
The San Matteo Crucifix	p. 91
The early Franciscan movement: the stigmas and the Joachimite wing	p. 93
Giunta Pisano: the emotivism of a suffering and dying god	p. 96
Cimabue and the Bonaventuran origins of Renaissance painting	p. 98
St Bonaventure: a Franciscan revival	p. 98
The cult of Mary	p. 104
Ugolino di Tedice: towards the new Tuscan Madonna	p. 105
Cimabue: the early years	p. 106
Cimabue in Rome	p. 109
Cimabue in Florence	p. 112
Cimabue in Assisi	p. 115
Cimabue: the last work	p. 119
Concluding remarks	p. 119
Conclusion to part 2	p. 121
The flowering and demise of Renaissance Grace	p. 123
Introduction to part 3: Grace, Calumny and the return of the Trickster, or Alberti's advice and admonition	p. 125
Leonardo da Vinci: the early years	p. 127
Introduction	p. 127
Leonardo's early years	p. 132
c. 1466: the move to Florence	p. 141
In Verrocchio's workshop	p. 143
Verrocchio's early life and first commissions	p. 145
The Golden Years and further promise	p. 151
Verrocchio as painter	p. 160
Leonardo's early paintings	p. 173
The break between Leonardo and Verrocchio	p. 180
Leonardo da Vinci: the mature works	p. 191
The mystery years: 1476-8	p. 191
Back in Florence: 1478-82	p. 192
1482-3: the move to Milan	p. 200
Leonardo's theology	p. 202
1500-1: the return to Florence	p. 206
The last pointing finger: the Baptist/Bacchus	p. 214
Michelangelo	p. 218
Early activities	p. 218
The 'demonic' according to Enrico Castelli	p. 220
Twisted male nudes in battle scenes	p. 222
The Pollaiuolos, or the return of the Trickster	p. 226
Michelangelo's stony Madonnas	p. 233
David, or the apotheosis of revolt	p. 237
The 'titanic' according to Karoly Kerenyi	p. 239
Michelangelo's tombs	p. 242
The Sistine Chapel vault	p. 247
Teaching the world	p. 250
The Last Judgment	p. 251
The dead Christ as the model for life	p. 254
Michelangelo's personality: ethical terror as another face of the Trickster	p. 256
Raphael	p. 259
Early years	p. 260
1504: the move to Florence	p. 262
Raphael's dilemma	p. 265
The second answer: the Leonardo Madonnas	p. 266
The practice of portraits	p. 270
Late 1506: the trauma of Leonardo's departure and the first encounter with Michelangelo	p. 277
1508: the call to Rome	p. 283
Visions of Madonnas	p. 295
1513-14: the new encounter with Leonardo	p. 305
The last works, 1518-20	p. 310
Conclusion to part 3	p. 321
Conclusion: retrieving connections	p. 325
Notes	p. 328
References	p. 345
Name index	p. 359
Subject index	p. 368
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