Aesthetics as Shared Interfaith Space between Christianity and Islam
Due to its immediate message, religious aesthetics is prone to various kinds of instrumentations in the contemporary world. In this context the aesthetic fundamentals shared by different religious traditions or scriptures must be rediscovered. This article argues for theological aesthetics as an eff...
| Published in: | The ecumenical review |
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| Subtitles: | In Honesty and in Hope: Rethinking Interreligious Engagement for Our Times |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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Wiley-Blackwell
[2019]
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| In: |
The ecumenical review
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| RelBib Classification: | AX Inter-religious relations BJ Islam CC Christianity and Non-Christian religion; Inter-religious relations CD Christianity and Culture CE Christian art HA Bible |
| Further subjects: | B
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B Calligraphy B Revelation B Scripture B Icons B Aesthetics B Interreligious B Species |
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| Summary: | Due to its immediate message, religious aesthetics is prone to various kinds of instrumentations in the contemporary world. In this context the aesthetic fundamentals shared by different religious traditions or scriptures must be rediscovered. This article argues for theological aesthetics as an effective category of analyzing religious identity and alterity. It looks at the aesthetics of revelation and scripture, and their reflexes in the embodied faith - architecture, ritual, and faith narratives - to articulate a comparative aesthetic theology of Christianity and Islam. The focus of this article lies in the interreligious potentialities of religious aesthetics, in the case of (Eastern) Christianity and Islam, conceived as a resonance chamber for similar sensibilities in the two religions. |
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| ISSN: | 1758-6623 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The ecumenical review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1111/erev.12472 |