Neuerscheinung: Aesthetics of Protestantism in Northern Europe - Exploring the Field
Ausgehend von einem 2018 geförderten EUCOR-Projekt zwischen Basel, Freiburg/Breisgau und Strasbourg ist soeben der erste Band der neuen Serie Aesthetics of Protestantism in Northern Europe bei Brepols erschienen.
Der von Joachim Grage, Thomas Mohnike und Lena Rohrbach herausgegebene Band Aesthetics of Protestantism in Northern Europe – Exploring the Field erkundet in einem breiten historischen Spektrum von der Reformation bis zur Gegenwart in 13 Fallstudien ästhetische Konsequenzen des Protestantismus in der skandinavischen Tradition. Beitragende in diesem Band sind Jürg Glauser, Margrét Eggertsdóttir, Ueli Zahnd, Lena Rohrbach, Arne Bugge Amundsen, Bernd Roling, Anna Bohlin, Joachim Grage, Claudia Lindén, Sophie Wennerscheid, Giuliano D’Amico und Joachim Schiedermair.
This book explores the aesthetic consequences of Protestantism in Scandinavia. Fourteen case studies from the sixteenth to the twenty-first century discuss five abstract and trans-historical principles that characterize Scandinavian aesthetics and that arguably derive from Protestant thinking and practice, namely: simplicity, logocentrism, tension between pronounced individualism and collectivism, relatedness to the world, and ethics. The contributions address the peculiar aesthetics of Scandinavian print, literature, architecture, film, and opera and reflect on the influence of Protestant traditions on the establishment of genres and writing practices.
This volume is the first in a new series that will focus on the aesthetics of Protestantism in Scandinavia, both theoretically and through exemplary individual analyses.