Is it possible to consider art-making as a spiritual practice independent of explicit religious belief or content? This open access collection establishes a new paradigm that changes the conversation surrounding the spiritual significance of art.
Where earlier research has focused on the religious significance of secular artworks, this innovative volume turns its attention to the role of the artist, and to specific examples of art practices, putting them into conversation with particular ritual practices.
By creating a web of connections that emerge across multiple disciplines and practices, a team of scholars and artist shed new light on the way art-making and ritual embody non-discursive forms of understanding. Drawing on the work of scholars who argue that ritual practice is central to religious identities, they use close analysis of specific examples to address philosophical issues about the nature of knowledge and spirituality and the relationship between them.
Bringing a practice-centered approach to the study of religion and the arts, this is a rich and in-depth examination of the possibility that art has spiritual meanings that are endemic to the practice of art-making itself.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Templeton Religious Trust.
Recenzijas
Art Making as Spiritual Practice offers a unique approach to the study of religion and the arts. By pairing theorists with practitioners, readers are able to peer into the ritualistic qualities of art making. -- S.B. Rodriguez-Plate, Professor of Religious Studies, Hamilton College, USA This important collection enables the reader to enter into the sacred space of ritual and art not only as a scholarly inquirer or critical reader but as a participant and a maker of meaning. Through its focus upon the specificity and particularity of creative and ritual practice we are challenged to reconceive the knowledge these practices make possible. They do not illuminate a thin, elipsed moon of understanding but draw us into a deeper, dazzling darkness. -- Heather Walton, Professor of Theology and Creative Practice, University of Glasgow, UK
Papildus informācija
An in-depth exploration of the spiritual significance of art using the role of the artist and ritual practices.
INTRODUCTION
Lexi Eikelboom
PART I: FRAMES
1. RELIGION, ART, RITUAL: THE HISTORY OF CONCEPTS, THE OPERATION OF POWER,
David Newheiser
2. METHODOLOGICAL CHALLENGES IN ADDRESSING KNOWLEDGE AND SPIRITUALITY ACROSS
PRACTICE AND DISCOURSE, Lexi Eikleboom
PART II: PRACTICES
MOVEMENT
3. THE CHRISTIAN EUCHARIST: VULNERABILITY AND PRECARITY, Natalie Carnes
4. HEATHER HESTERMANS COMMUNITY PRACTICE, Alison Fitchett-Climenhaga
TIME
5. A PROCESSION IN THE MEDIEVAL BRAHMANICAL STATE: THE TIME OF RITUAL AND
THE TIME OF
RITUAL, Marko Geslani
6. ADAM LEES PAINTING PRACTICE, Alda Balthrop-Lewis
MEDIUM
7. SERMONS, VIDEO RECORDINGS, AND ARTHUR JAFAS AKINGDONCOMETHAS: RITUALS OF
TRANSFORMATION, Jonathan Anderson
8. CHRIS BONDS DRAWING PRACTICE: REPRODUCTIVE NEGATIONS, Killian Quigley
SUBTRACTION
9. RITUAL AND SUBTRACTION, Elayne Oliphant
10. LIVE PARTICLES SOMATIC PRACTICE, Maurice Toscano
INVENTION
11. THE JEWISH ALEINU, Molly Farneth
12. DOMINIC REDFERNS VIDEO PRACTICE, Benjamin R. DeSpain
ATTENTION
13. HOMERIC OATH-MAKING RITUALS AND THE 2014 SOTLOFF BEHEADING VIDEO: RITUALS
OF MENACE, Margo Kitts
14.HARRY NANKINS PHOTOGRAPHY PRACTICE, Jason Goroncy
LISTENING
15. THE LITURGICAL MOMENT: REVELATION AND POETIC KNOWING, Graham Ward
16. MARK NEWBOUNDS VIDEO PRACTICE: EMBODIED KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION FROM
DECOLONIAL PERSPECTIVES, Enqi Weng
PART III: DISCIPLINES
SOCIAL SCIENCE
17. ART PERFORMANCES AND RELIGIOUS RITUALS: HOW TRANSFORMATIVE EXPERIENCES
CAN FOSTER KNOWLEDGE, Valerie van Mulukom, Armin Geertz, Robert Clark, Miguel
Farias
ART HISTORY
18. THEORISING RITUAL AND ART AFTER MODERNITY, Deborah Lewer
Part IV. CONCLUSION
The Power of Unknowing in Art and Religion - David Newheiser
Bibliography
Index
Lexi Eikelboom is a Research Fellow in Religion and Theology at the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry at Australian Catholic University, Australia.
David Newheiser is a Senior Research Fellow in the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry at Australian Catholic University, Australia.
