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The Neglected Place of Religion in Contemporary Western Art (2012)
Journal Article
Arya, R. (2012). The Neglected Place of Religion in Contemporary Western Art. Fieldwork in Religion, 6, 27--46. https://doi.org/10.1558/firn.v6i1.27

In this article I am going to examine some of the artwork of the American video artist Bill Viola to demonstrate the experiences of the religious to which it can give rise. Viola{\textquoteright}s work is a meditation on the central questions and iss... Read More about The Neglected Place of Religion in Contemporary Western Art.

Constructions of homosexuality in the art of Francis Bacon (2012)
Journal Article
Arya, R. (2012). Constructions of homosexuality in the art of Francis Bacon. Journal for Cultural Research, 16, 43--61. https://doi.org/10.1080/14797585.2011.633836

In this article, I contextualise Bacon's representations of homosexuality -- that is, same-sex relations between men. The male nude made its appearance in Bacon's work in the early 1950s, a time when the nude was not a popular subject in painting and... Read More about Constructions of homosexuality in the art of Francis Bacon.

Transitional Spaces: The Phenomenology of the Awayday (2011)
Journal Article
Arya, R. (2011). Transitional Spaces: The Phenomenology of the Awayday. Tamara : journal of critical postmodern organization science, 9, 23--33

In this paper I will investigate the phenomenon of the awayday and its potential as a transitional space as well as how it fits into management discourse. Transition is central to the awayday, often on a literal level (of being away from the office,... Read More about Transitional Spaces: The Phenomenology of the Awayday.

Assaying the Pope: Francis Bacon's Interrogation of Religion (2011)
Journal Article
Arya, R. (2011). Assaying the Pope: Francis Bacon's Interrogation of Religion. Implicit Religion, 14, 343--349

The artist Francis Bacon vehemently denied that he was religious and yet in his art he employed numerous examples of Christian symbols, such as the Crucifixion and the Pope. The use of religious symbols by artists who profess either atheism or a mere... Read More about Assaying the Pope: Francis Bacon's Interrogation of Religion.

Contemplations of the Spiritual in Visual Art (2011)
Journal Article
Arya, R. (2011). Contemplations of the Spiritual in Visual Art. Journal for the study of spirituality, 1, 76--93. https://doi.org/10.1558/jss.v1i1.76

Many examples of art works are described as spiritual but without fleshing out what this means. This has led to wide applicability of the term but without a sharpening of the concept. I address this by opening up a dialogue between spirituality and t... Read More about Contemplations of the Spiritual in Visual Art.

Art in Sacred Places (2010)
Book Chapter
Arya, R. (2010). Art in Sacred Places. In L. Holland, & J. Poulton (Eds.), Site, Material, Object (6--9)

The Religious Significance of Violence in Football (2010)
Book Chapter
Arya, R. (2010). The Religious Significance of Violence in Football. In {. S. }. Christianson, & C. Partridge (Eds.), Holy Terror (122--134). Routledge

The above emotive response was recalled by the late music disc jockey John Peel with reference to the match between Liverpool and AS Roma in the 1984 European Champions Cup Final in Paris. The goal scored by Allen Kennedy was the pivotal moment in th... Read More about The Religious Significance of Violence in Football.

The Religious Dimensions of Compulsive Buying (2009)
Journal Article
Arya, R. (2009). The Religious Dimensions of Compulsive Buying. Implicit Religion, 12, 165--185. https://doi.org/10.1558/imre.v12i2.165

This paper examines the implicit religiosity of compulsive buying. Much of the extant literature on the subject focuses on biological and/or psychological factors. I argue that the cycle of behaviour in compulsive buying, which oscillates between eup... Read More about The Religious Dimensions of Compulsive Buying.

Painting the Pope: An analysis of Francis Bacon's study after Velázquez's Portrait of Innocent X (2009)
Journal Article
Arya, R. (2009). Painting the Pope: An analysis of Francis Bacon's study after Velázquez's Portrait of Innocent X. Literature and Theology, 23, 33--50. https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frn039

In many discussions of his work Bacon is disparaging about religion, and more specifically, Christianity. And yet, in spite of his unequivocal stance, throughout his oeuvre he was relentlessly drawn towards the symbols of the Christian tradition, esp... Read More about Painting the Pope: An analysis of Francis Bacon's study after Velázquez's Portrait of Innocent X.

Remaking the body: The cultural dimensions of Francis Bacon (2009)
Journal Article
Arya, R. (2009). Remaking the body: The cultural dimensions of Francis Bacon. Journal for Cultural Research, 13, 143--158. https://doi.org/10.1080/14797580902829752

In 2008 the Tate Gallery hosted a retrospective of Francis Bacon to commemorate his centenary. This occasion was one of the motivations for presenting this reflection on Bacon and his legacy 16 years after his death. The exhibition demonstrated Bacon... Read More about Remaking the body: The cultural dimensions of Francis Bacon.

A-theology and the recovery of the sacred in Bataille and Bacon (2008)
Journal Article
Arya, R. (2008). A-theology and the recovery of the sacred in Bataille and Bacon

In this paper I want to examine the relationship between “a-theology” and the sacred in the select works by Georges Bataille (1897-1962) and the artist Francis Bacon (1909-1992). Throughout their work Bataille and Bacon express the influence of relig... Read More about A-theology and the recovery of the sacred in Bataille and Bacon.