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¿¿n, 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.