Religion and aesthetic experience : : drama - sermons - literature / / edited by Sabine Dorpmüller [and three others].

• Superior document: Heidelberg studies on transculturality ; Volume 4
• TeilnehmendeR: Dorpmüller, Sabine,
• Place / Publishing House: Heidelberg : : Heidelberg University Publishing (heiUP),, 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Heidelberg studies on transculturality ; Volume 4.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 256 pages).

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 Qurʼān, 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.

Table of Contents

Jan Scholz, Max Stille, Ines Weinrich / Introduction -- Part I: Trajectories of Religious and Aesthetic Interpretations -- Lore Knapp / Religious Experience as Aesthetic Experience -- Annette Wilke / Classical Indian Aesthetics and rasa Theory: Observations on Embodied Rhetoric, Reader Response, and the Entanglement of Aesthetics and Religion in Hindu India -- Omaima Abou-Bakr / "Bride of the Quran": An Aesthetic Reading of Surat ar-Rahman -- Part II: Aesthetics of Islamic Sermons -- Tahera Qutbuddin / A Sermon on Piety by Imam AIT ibn AbT"falib: How the Rhythm of the Classical Arabic Oration Tacitly Persuaded -- Max Stille / Between the Numinous and the Melodramatic: Poetics of Heightened Feelings in Bengali Islamic Sermons -- Jan Scholz / Dramatic Islamic Preaching: A Close Reading of Amr Khalid -- Part III: Experiencing Religion in and through Literature -- Tony K. Stewart / Popular Sufi Narratives and the Parameters of the Bengali Imaginaire -- Susanne Enderwitz / Religion into Literature: A Close Reading o f'Abd al-Haklm Qasim's Novel Ayyam al-insan as-sab'a (The Seven Days of Man) -- Suzanne Pinckney Stetkevych / Rhetoric, Hybridity, and Performance in Medieval Arabic-Islamic Devotional Poetry: Al-Kafiya al-Badllyya of SafF ad-DTn al-HillT -- Ines Weinrich / Strategies in Islamic Religious Oral Performance: The Creation of Audience Response.