Introduction: Rasa -- I. Peace -- The bliss of peace -- Suffering and peace -- II. Love -- The rasa of love incarnate -- A dilemma of feeling -- Love, bodies, and others -- III. Fury -- Dalit arts and the failure of aesthetics -- Fury as a religious sentiment -- IV. Tastes of the divine -- Toward a holistic theology of the emotions -- Wonder
Summary
The intensity and meaningfulness of aesthetic experience have often been described in theological terms. By designating basic human emotions as rasa, a word that connotes taste, flavour, or essence, Indian aesthetic theory conceptualises emotional states as something to be savoured. At their core, emotions can be tastes of the divine. In this book, the methods of the emerging discipline of comparative theology enable the author's appreciation of Hindu texts and practices to illuminate her Christian reflections on aesthetics and emotion
