Religion and Aesthetic Experience - Drama-Sermons-Literature

Religious aesthetics have gained increasing importance over the past few years in the fields of Religious studies and Islamic studies. This volume highlights the transcultural dimensions of the theoretical foundations of religious aesthetics. It explores aesthetic experience in the religious field through a series of case studies. These include Islamic sermons from the Middle East and South Asia, Islamic religious chanting, a chapter of the Qur an, a German performance artist, Indian rasa theory, and Arabic and Bengali literature. Together, the authors demonstrate that the analysis of the aesthetic forms of religious mediation across regions and genres is a fruitful approach to transcultural studies.

Product details

• Assisted by: Sabine Dorpmüller (Editor), Ja Scholz (Editor), Jan Scholz (Editor), Max Stille (Editor), Max Stille et al (Editor), Ines Weinrich (Editor)
• Publisher: Heidelberg University Publishing
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2019
• EAN: 9783947732012
• ISBN: 978-3-947732-01-2
• No. of pages: 266
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 235 mm x 21 mm
• Weight: 620 g
• Series: Heidelberg Studies on Transculturality; Heidelberg Studies on Transculturality 4
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Religion: general, reference works