Table of Contents Art in the Register of Religious Traditions Christianity 1. The Work of Art in Spiritual Experience, Regina Coupar, Visual artist 2. Before and After the Ikon, Stephan Vaneyan, Moscow State University 3. The Violated Madonna of Dubai, Frank Bosman, Tilburg School of Catholic Theology, Netherlands 4. Polemics in the Streets: The Religious and Anti Religious Work of Graffiti, Joanna Homrighausen, William & Mary, Virginia Islam 5. The Alif and the Ba: The Spirit and the Letter of Islamic Calligraphy, Omid Safi, Duke University Sikhism 6. Sikh Kirtan, Gurmat Sangeet, and the Transformation of Sikhi into Sikhism, Conner Singh VanderBeek, Davidson College, North Carolina Hinduism 7. Meeting the Eyes of the Deity, Marianne Qvortrup Fibiger, Aarhus University Classical Antiquity 8.
The Aesthetics of Sacrifice: Sensation and Performance in Ancient Greco- Roman Sacrificial Rituals, Johan Brun Mendes Cederfeldt, Aarhus University Contemporary Spirituality 9. In Damanhur Everything is Art, Luigi Berzano, University of Turin, and Stambecco Pesco, Damanhur School of MeditAction Religion in the Register of Artists 10. Seeing the Earth: Artists and their Visions, Maureen Korp, Historian 11. Counter-virtues and the Work of Art in Wolfgang Laib, Jeffrey Kosky, Washington & Lee University, Virginia 12. Conjure Aesthetics: Imagining the Entangled Ancestral History of African Americans as Outsider and Insider Artists, Norman Girardot, Lehigh University, Pennsylvania 13. The Piper and the Bard: Bob Dylan in the Crack of Dawn, Rachela Permenter, Slippery Rock University, Pennsylvania The Philosophical Mode 14. Art That Works: Nietzsche''s Figures of Suffering, Zoe Anthony, University of Tampa 15. Modern Art as Symbolic Representation: A Critical Analysis of Modernism in Mircea Eliade''s Works, Gabriel Badea, Romanian Academy 16.
Art, Religion, and the Search for Non Meaning, Gary Kibbins and Eric Chalfant, both at Queen''s University, Canada The Anthropological Mode 17. Gods And Their Mode of Being: Religion and Art Beyond Subjectivity and Metaphysics in Papua New Guinea and Beyond, Ricardo Santos Alexandre, Centre for Research in Anthropology, Portugal The Ethological Mode 18. Very Like Art: Self-Taught Art from an Ethological Perspective, Ellen Dissanayake, Independent scholar The Neurocognitive Mode 19. From Perception to Aesthetics: Recent Neurocognitive Approaches to Art (and Religion), Armin Geertz, Aarhus University 20. Music and the Miraculous: The Neurophysiology of Music''s Emotive Meaning, Candace Alcorta, University of Connecticut 21. Sensible Affective Knowledge of Imaginary Orders in Art, Rami Gabriel, Columbia College Chicago 22. Self-Programming and the Self-Domestication of the Human Species: Are, We Approaching a Fourth Transition? Merlin Donald, Queen''s University, Canada Coda 23. Skill and the Sacred: Material Expression and Phenomenal Experience, Bryan S.
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