Religious ecstasy

by the First Amendment, and more specifically the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 (RFRA), which established the “substantial burden” criteria. It true that both the First Amendment with regard to the religious freedom provision, and the RFRA have been used to support positions of discrimination. The drafters of the AFA crafted a provision that allowed individuals to continue to receive subsidized contraceptives, regardless the religious affiliation or leanings of aforementioned…

The common narrative that women are forced into wearing headscarves stems from the West’s white saviour complex and white feminism’s need to liberate ‘third-world’ women, but it is true that even in a moderately religious country like ours, this narrative is still extremely common. But each woman’s story is uniquely hers and each perspective has a myriad of reasons and motivations behind it, so we need to take into consideration that women can, and do, take this decision…

Lorenzo Bernini was also an Italian sculptor and architect, but during the Baroque period. The Ecstasy of Saint Theresa was finished in 1652 for the Cornaro family chapel in Santa Maria della Vittoria (Kleiner). Though there is complexity in the Baroque moment of Gian Bernini’s Ectasy of Saint Theresa, the Neoplatonist and humanist influences on Michelangelo’s Pietà are standard of the High Renaissance. In Ecstasy of Saint Theresa, Bernini’s depicts not only a Baroque moment and emotion, but…

This connection was central to the Catholic devotional treatise. By the early seventeenth century, ecstasy and death was a combination vital to Catholic devotions. Bernini clarified the nuptial content of Ludovica’s ecstatic death by placing two large, flaming hearts at her feet and head and carving a third heart into the façade of her sarcophagus. Although…

emotions. One could almost think that Donne tried to depict his knowledge of love with the help of his poetry. Love is able to be experienced with the soul, the body, or even both. Moreover, it can also be a religious experience, it can further increase the emotions and reach from an ecstasy like state to total despair, or is perceptible as a merely sensual experience. When analysing poems of his Songs and Sonnets individually, one will face a limited prospect of John Donne’s attitude towards…

relationships Bernini had with different religious authorities, how he dealt with the betrayal of his brother and Constanza, and the rivalry between him and Francesco Borromini…

“The Swing” vs. “Ecstasy of St. Theresa” Fragonard’s “The Swing,” from the Rococo period, and Bernini’s “Ecstasy of St. Theresa,” from the Italian Baroque, are two works of art that employ a lavish visual aesthetic that many viewers, as well as artists, of their time were unable to comprehend. Both pieces are so visually stimulating, and detail oriented. They draw the viewer to the piece without flaw, and allow for a very pleasant representation of the artistic era they embody. Both…

(Szabo, 2015). These can also help with depression and anxiety and mood disorders. Making the receptors either take a break not allowing information to process as normal or to distort the information. Peyote was founded and is still used today in a religious manner to give a person the individual needs to become closer to god. To have a better understanding and an out of the body experience. Many people who have tried these drugs get more vivid sense .Although these drugs can be used to help…

role of the church during this era and how Caravaggio and Bernini differently conveyed faith and commitment to the church. Lastly, I’ll give my visual analyze on Bernini’s painting Ecstasy of St. Teresa and Caravaggio’s painting Crucifixion of St. Peter. The Baroque era came about from the Reformation which was a religious movement that took place in the sixteenth century that divided Christianity between the Roman Catholics and the Protestants. It was initiated by a German Augustinian monk by…

that go with every painting or sculpture that is made with that style. Meanwhile, Neoclassical style is more on historical viewpoint with a decorative way. The painting, "La Grande Odalisque" by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, and the sculpture, "The Ecstasy of St. Teresa" by Gianlorenzo Bernini, both portray females in exotic poses. While both artworks feature women, each artist used very different methods to get their message across. They both use a light source, are differently made, and they…