European churches and Chinese temples as neuro-theatrical sites /
Integrating research across various cognitive science and humanities disciplines, this book explores how traditional designs and spaces of Chinese temples and European churches, as outer theatrical spaces, have left cultural imprints for how our "inner theatres" are staged. Gathering theor...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
[2024].
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| Series: | Cognition, poetics, and the arts.
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| Summary: | Integrating research across various cognitive science and humanities disciplines, this book explores how traditional designs and spaces of Chinese temples and European churches, as outer theatrical spaces, have left cultural imprints for how our "inner theatres" are staged. Gathering theories and research from theatre, philosophy of mind and emotion and various cognitive, affective and social science fields, Brain Spirits applies them to the art, architecture and history of religious buildings, from Buddhist, Daoist, Confucian and Imperial temples, to Catholic, Orthodox and Protestant churches and sites important in Judaism and Islam. |
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| Physical Description: | xiii, 308 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [277]-297) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9798765109113 9798765109106 |