Dance, Music, Art, and Religion
Editori
Ahlbäck, Tore
The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi
1996
Kuvaus
DESMOND AYIM-ABOAGYE
Art, Music and Religious Experience in Libation Pouring of Akan Religion
UMAR HABILA DADEM DANFULANI
Rituals as Dance and Dance as Rituals. The Drama of Kok Nji and
Other Festivals in the Religious Experience of the Ngas, Mupun and
Mwaghavul in Nigeria
VALERIE DEMARINIS
With Dance and Drum. A Psychocultural Investigation of the Ritual
Meaning-Making System of an Afro-Brazilian, Macumba Community
in Salvador, Brazil
MONICA ENGELHART
The Dancing Picture — The Ritual Dance of Native Australians
RAGNHILD BJERRE FINNESTAD
Images as Messengers of Coptic Identity. An Example from Contemporary Egypt
MARIANNE GÖRMAN
The Necklace as a Divine Symbol and as a Sign of Dignity in the Old Norse Conception
ANDREAS HAGER
Like a Prophet — On Christian Interpretations of a Madonna Video
TINA HAMRIN
Dance as Aggressiveness
KLEMENS KARLSSON
Can a Buddha Image be Untrue? The Grahi Buddha and the Way to
Make Buddha Images in Southeast Asia
INGE DEMANT MORTENSEN
Nomad Iconography on Tombstones from Luristan, Iran
BRITT-MARI NÄSSTRÖM
Magical Music in Old Norse Literature
GULLÖG NORDQUIST
The Salpinx in Greek Cult
JORGEN PODEMANN ~ENSEN
Ritual Art: a Key to the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead
MIKAEL ROTHSTEIN
Images of the Mind and Images for the Eye. Ari Iconographical
Approach to UFO-Mythology
PETER SCHALK
The Vallipuram Buddha Image "Rediscovered"
J. PETER SÖDERGÄRD
Decoding the Hermetic Discourse in Salomon Trismosin's Splendor
Solis — A Semiotic Study of Three Ways of Reading
MAJ-BRIT WADELL
"Everything Created by God Is Pure". The Image of God in Emanuel
Vigeland's Programme of Art in His Tomba Emmanuelle in Oslo
OWE WIKSTRÖM
Darsan (to See) Lord Shiva in Varanasi. Visual Processes and the
Representation of God by Seven Ricksha-Drivers
ELZBIETA WITKOWSKA-ZAREMBA
The Medieval Concept of Music Perception. Hearing, Calculating
and Contemplating
Art, Music and Religious Experience in Libation Pouring of Akan Religion
UMAR HABILA DADEM DANFULANI
Rituals as Dance and Dance as Rituals. The Drama of Kok Nji and
Other Festivals in the Religious Experience of the Ngas, Mupun and
Mwaghavul in Nigeria
VALERIE DEMARINIS
With Dance and Drum. A Psychocultural Investigation of the Ritual
Meaning-Making System of an Afro-Brazilian, Macumba Community
in Salvador, Brazil
MONICA ENGELHART
The Dancing Picture — The Ritual Dance of Native Australians
RAGNHILD BJERRE FINNESTAD
Images as Messengers of Coptic Identity. An Example from Contemporary Egypt
MARIANNE GÖRMAN
The Necklace as a Divine Symbol and as a Sign of Dignity in the Old Norse Conception
ANDREAS HAGER
Like a Prophet — On Christian Interpretations of a Madonna Video
TINA HAMRIN
Dance as Aggressiveness
KLEMENS KARLSSON
Can a Buddha Image be Untrue? The Grahi Buddha and the Way to
Make Buddha Images in Southeast Asia
INGE DEMANT MORTENSEN
Nomad Iconography on Tombstones from Luristan, Iran
BRITT-MARI NÄSSTRÖM
Magical Music in Old Norse Literature
GULLÖG NORDQUIST
The Salpinx in Greek Cult
JORGEN PODEMANN ~ENSEN
Ritual Art: a Key to the Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead
MIKAEL ROTHSTEIN
Images of the Mind and Images for the Eye. Ari Iconographical
Approach to UFO-Mythology
PETER SCHALK
The Vallipuram Buddha Image "Rediscovered"
J. PETER SÖDERGÄRD
Decoding the Hermetic Discourse in Salomon Trismosin's Splendor
Solis — A Semiotic Study of Three Ways of Reading
MAJ-BRIT WADELL
"Everything Created by God Is Pure". The Image of God in Emanuel
Vigeland's Programme of Art in His Tomba Emmanuelle in Oslo
OWE WIKSTRÖM
Darsan (to See) Lord Shiva in Varanasi. Visual Processes and the
Representation of God by Seven Ricksha-Drivers
ELZBIETA WITKOWSKA-ZAREMBA
The Medieval Concept of Music Perception. Hearing, Calculating
and Contemplating
Tiivistelmä
By tradition, the study of religion has predominantly been concerned with intellectual aspects of faith and believing, focusing on texts, systematised creeds and articulated truth claims. Aesthetic dimensions of religions have thereby tended to receive less attention. As a consequence, contemporary scholarship is often unable to account for other aspects of human religiosity than the purely intellectual, such as the visual, the oral, the tactile and other sensory experiences within the religious frame of reference. By highlighting the relationship between religion and the arts, the current volume seeks to find a new, more multidimensional trajectory for the study of religion.
The articles in this volume address several different art forms – among these for example dance, drama, music, images and video art – and their relation to specific religious contexts. As is clearly shown by the varied themes presented in the volume, the arts play a prominent role as mediators of religious experiences and as expressions of religious sentiments, for individuals and for communities, in history and up to the present day.
The articles in this volume address several different art forms – among these for example dance, drama, music, images and video art – and their relation to specific religious contexts. As is clearly shown by the varied themes presented in the volume, the arts play a prominent role as mediators of religious experiences and as expressions of religious sentiments, for individuals and for communities, in history and up to the present day.