Art-Making as Spiritual Practice

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.

Auteur

Lexi Eikelboom is a Research Fellow in Religion and Theology at the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry at Australian Catholic University, Australia.

David Newheiser is a Senior Research Fellow in the Institute for Religion and Critical Inquiry at Australian Catholic University, Australia.

Contenu

INTRODUCTION
Lexi Eikelboom

PART I: FRAMES

1. RELIGION, ART, RITUAL: THE HISTORY OF CONCEPTS, THE OPERATION OF POWER, David Newheiser
2. METHODOLOGICAL CHALLENGES IN ADDRESSING KNOWLEDGE AND SPIRITUALITY ACROSS PRACTICE AND DISCOURSE, Lexi Eikleboom

PART II: PRACTICES
MOVEMENT

3. THE CHRISTIAN EUCHARIST: VULNERABILITY AND PRECARITY, Natalie Carnes
4. HEATHER HESTERMAN'S COMMUNITY PRACTICE, Alison Fitchett-Climenhaga
   TIME
5. A PROCESSION IN THE MEDIEVAL BRAHMANICAL STATE: THE TIME OF RITUAL AND THE TIME OF
   RITUAL, Marko Geslani
6. ADAM LEE'S PAINTING PRACTICE, Alda Balthrop-Lewis
   MEDIUM
7. SERMONS, VIDEO RECORDINGS, AND ARTHUR JAFA'S AKINGDONCOMETHAS: RITUALS OF
   TRANSFORMATION, Jonathan Anderson
8. CHRIS BOND'S DRAWING PRACTICE: REPRODUCTIVE NEGATIONS, Killian Quigley
   SUBTRACTION
9. RITUAL AND SUBTRACTION, Elayne Oliphant
10. LIVE PARTICLE'S SOMATIC PRACTICE, Maurice Toscano
    INVENTION
11. THE JEWISH ALEINU, Molly Farneth
12. DOMINIC REDFERN'S VIDEO PRACTICE, Benjamin R. DeSpain
    ATTENTION
13. HOMERIC OATH-MAKING RITUALS AND THE 2014 SOTLOFF BEHEADING VIDEO: RITUALS OF MENACE, Margo Kitts
    14.HARRY NANKIN'S PHOTOGRAPHY PRACTICE, Jason Goroncy
    LISTENING
14. THE LITURGICAL MOMENT: REVELATION AND POETIC KNOWING, Graham Ward

15. MARK NEWBOUND'S VIDEO PRACTICE: EMBODIED KNOWLEDGE PRODUCTION FROM DECOLONIAL PERSPECTIVES, Enqi Weng

    PART III: DISCIPLINES
    SOCIAL SCIENCE

16. ART PERFORMANCES AND RELIGIOUS RITUALS: HOW TRANSFORMATIVE EXPERIENCES CAN FOSTER KNOWLEDGE, Valerie van Mulukom, Armin Geertz, Robert Clark, Miguel Farias
    ART HISTORY
17. THEORISING RITUAL AND ART AFTER MODERNITY, Deborah Lewer

Part IV. CONCLUSION
The Power of Unknowing in Art and Religion - David Newheiser
Bibliography

Index