Exploring the Aesthetic ‘Space’ for Inter-religious Encounter

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" Exploring the Aesthetic ‘Space’ for Inter-religious Encounter "
David Cheetham

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	1066886
Doc. No	:	LA110515
Call No	:	‭10.1163/016627410X12559405201199‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	David Cheetham
Title & Author	:	Exploring the Aesthetic ‘Space’ for Inter-religious Encounter [Article]\ David Cheetham
Publication Statement	:	Leiden: Brill
Title of Periodical	:	Exchange
Date	:	2010
Volume/ Issue Number	:	39/1
Page No	:	71–86
Abstract	:	This exploratory paper sets out to engage in some preliminary considerations concerning aesthetics and the meeting of religions. Underlying some of the thinking in this paper is the debatable assumption that there can be a recognizable difference between religious and aesthetic kinds of experience. Thus, the arts might be able to create ‘worlds’ which are easier for those with religious commitments to enter than explicitly religious territories. Moreover, we can perhaps use aesthetics as a loose category (without theoretical elaboration) in order to find areas of enjoyable inter-religious aesthetic conversation. That is, there is just a ‘given-ness’ or ‘abundance’ about art and beauty that allows us to simply enjoy our experience of it and share it with others. This exploratory paper sets out to engage in some preliminary considerations concerning aesthetics and the meeting of religions. Underlying some of the thinking in this paper is the debatable assumption that there can be a recognizable difference between religious and aesthetic kinds of experience. Thus, the arts might be able to create ‘worlds’ which are easier for those with religious commitments to enter than explicitly religious territories. Moreover, we can perhaps use aesthetics as a loose category (without theoretical elaboration) in order to find areas of enjoyable inter-religious aesthetic conversation. That is, there is just a ‘given-ness’ or ‘abundance’ about art and beauty that allows us to simply enjoy our experience of it and share it with others.
Descriptor	:	Aesthetics
Descriptor	:	beauty
Descriptor	:	comparative
Descriptor	:	cross-cultural
Descriptor	:	encounter
Descriptor	:	imagination
Descriptor	:	inter-religious
Descriptor	:	theology of religions
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1163/016627410X12559405201199‬