Table of Contents 

• • Prologue: Religious Taste ix
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    One Good Taste, Bad Taste, and Christian Taste 3
  • Two Art in Christian Traditions 26
  • Three From the Love of Religion to the Love of Art 62
  • Four The Taste for Art and the Thirst for God 95
  • Five Kitsch, Sacred and Profane: The Question of Quality 128
  • Six Ecumenical Taste: The Case for Music 160
  • Seven Making Sacred Places, and Making Places Sacred 199
  • Eight Styles and Stages of Faith and Art I: The Next Stage 217
  • Nine Styles and Stages of Faith and Art II: Practicing Christianity Artfully 252
  • Notes 271
  • Index 301