Acknowledgments | p. ix |
Foreword The Effect of Public Art on the Social Fabric of Communities | p. xi |
Introduction | p. xv |
Philadelphia: Spaces and Stories | p. 1 |
From Behind the Mask | p. 3 |
Spaces, Stories, and Method | p. 7 |
The Ghetto as Symbol | p. 19 |
Bibliography | p. 37 |
Murals: Painting Philia | p. 41 |
Peaceable Kingdom | p. 43 |
Painting Walls | p. 47 |
Painting Community | p. 59 |
Painting the Signs of the Times | p. 67 |
Bibliography | p. 79 |
Codes: The Impasses of Poverty | p. 83 |
Songs of Hope | p. 85 |
Code of the Streets | p. 91 |
Code of Whiteness | p. 101 |
Code of Creativity | p. 113 |
Bibliography | p. 125 |
Prisons: From Degradation to Restoration | p. 129 |
Forgiveness | p. 131 |
The Complex | p. 135 |
Forgiveness | p. 147 |
Restoration | p. 161 |
Bibliography | p. 171 |
Beauty: Arts and the Body Politic | p. 175 |
Born Again | p. 177 |
Healing | p. 183 |
Recovery | p. 195 |
Flourishing | p. 205 |
Bibliography | p. 215 |
Holy Experiment: Religious Imagery in the Public Square | p. 219 |
Doorways to Peace | p. 221 |
Visual Public Theology | p. 229 |
Visual Civil Piety | p. 239 |
Interfaith Creativity | p. 253 |
Bibliography | p. 263 |
Appendix: Imagining the Signs of the Times | p. 267 |
Theological Aesthetics and Contemporary Christian Ethics | p. 267 |
Sources for an "Aesthetic Ethics" | p. 274 |
Scripture | p. 274 |
Philosophy | p. 280 |
Tradition | p. 291 |
Experience | p. 298 |
What Remains Unimagined | p. 308 |
Index | p. 311 |
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