Art-Making as Spiritual Practice

Name: Art-Making as Spiritual Practice | Rituals of Embodied Understanding
Brand: Bloomsbury Academic
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Rituals of Embodied Understanding

Lexi Eikelboom David Newheiser(Herausgeber*in)

Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)

Erscheint ca. am 18. September 2025

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Hardcover

328 Seiten

978-1-350-47418-5 (ISBN)

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Beschreibung

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.

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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

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