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Rituality and Aesthetic Experience from Multidisciplinary Approaches

Rituality and Aesthetic Experience from Multidisciplinary Approaches

Expósito de Vicente, Cristina
Cuenca Abellán, Belén

Hardcover

PhilosophyArt Criticism & TheoryReligion General

PREORDER - Expected ship date March 13, 2027

ISBN10: 3032366518
ISBN13: 9783032366511
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Mar 13 2027
Language: English

This volume offers a multidisciplinary exploration of how ritual practices shape aesthetic experience as a sensory, symbolic, and cultural phenomenon. Bringing together perspectives from art history, biblical studies, architecture, gender studies, Islamic studies, literary studies, and archaeometry, it examines rituality not as passive tradition but as a dynamic process through which perception, embodiment, memory, and cultural meaning are negotiated. Through case studies ranging from biblical iconography and Islamic minority practices to theatrical performance, sacred architecture, literature, and the sensory worlds of ancient cultures, the contributors explore how rituals are represented, transformed, and reinterpreted across different historical and cultural contexts. Structured around the interconnected themes of visual culture, architecture, and material and literary practices, the volume demonstrates how aesthetic experience mediates the relationships between the body, the senses, belief, power, and collective identity, inviting readers to rethink ritual as a dynamic language of human creativity and cultural memory.

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