Religion and Aesthetic Experience

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 Qur¿an, 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.