Date of Award
1-1-2018
Document Type
Dissertation
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Department
Religious Studies
First Advisor
Gregory Robbins, Ph.D.
Second Advisor
Scott Howard
Third Advisor
Theodore Vial
Fourth Advisor
Katherine Turpin
Keywords
Aesthetics, Ambiguity, Literature, Materiality, S. Brent Plate, Umberto Eco
Abstract
This project expands S. Brent Plate's "invented religious aesthetics" by bringing it into conversation with Umberto Eco's theory of ambiguity. It articulates the space that ambiguity opens within the field of religious aesthetics when viewed as a liminal or interdisciplinary theory that neither privileges the starting points of transcendental aesthetics nor the "neo-arches" of theories of materiality. It hints at new ways of studying and describing religious worlds while also illustrating the porous borderlines between narrative and theory. It argues that a religious aesthetic rooted in ambiguity emphasizes both the provisionality of knowledge and the narrativization of reality.
Publication Statement
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Recommended Citation
Peters, Benjamin John, "Narrativizing Theory: The Role of Ambiguity in Religious Aesthetics" (2018). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 1418.
https://digitalcommons.du.edu/etd/1418
Provenance
Received from ProQuest
Rights holder
Benjamin John Peters
File size
303 p.
Copyright date
2018
File format
application/pdf
Language
en
Discipline
Philosophy of Religion, Aesthetics, Literature