2. Tagung des Arbeitskreises Religionsästhetik im Rahmen der Deutschen Vereinigung für Religionswissenschaft (DVRW)
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Körper, Sinne, Religionen - religionswissenschaftliche Zugänge zur Ästhetik und Sinnlichkeit religiöser Praxis
Samstag, 17. Mai bis Sonntag, 18. Mai 2008Vorläufiges Programm
- Freitag, 16. Mai 2008, 18:30 Uhr Öffentlicher Vortrag
David Morgan (Duesenberg Professor of Christianity and the Arts, Valparaiso University)
„The Look of the Sacred”
Weitere Informationen - Samstag 17. Mai 2008 10:00 bis 12:00 Uhr
Workshop mit David Morgan
„Defining Visual Culture in the Visual Construction of the Sacred”
Weitere Informationen - Samstag 17. Mai 2008 13:00 bis Sonntag, 18. Mai 2008, 15:00 Uhr
Tagung des Arbeitskreises Religionsästhetik in Workshopform
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Anmeldungen zur Tagung bitte bis zum 1. April 2008 per E-Mail an katja.rakow@zegk.uni-heidelberg.de mit dem Betreff „Anmeldung Tagung RÄ Heidelberg”.
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Paper Abstract: „The Look of the Sacred”
This paper explores the embodied nature of seeing as a corrective to the strong tendency among scholars to render vision into an intellectual or symbolic operation, a system of iconographic codes or a technique of illustration in which imagery comes after words as a way of referring to ideas. By approaching the engagement of human and sacred other as a visual encounter in which the other looks at human beings, in which seeing means being seen by the divine, vision or seeing become bodily forms of relations. The paper then examines how seeing is embodied, how visual analysis may proceed, and what happens to the study of religion when this occurs. Special interest is given to the work of Merleau-Ponty as a point of departure for fixing on the embodied nature of seeing.
Workshop Abstract: „Defining Visual Culture in the Visual Construction of the Sacred”
„Visual culture” marks a recent paradigm shift in the study of images and visual practices, but surprisingly little has been said about religious visual culture in the many theoretical treatments of visual culture over that last fifteen or twenty years. What is visual culture in the study of religion and how shall scholars of religion go about studying it? This workshop will respond to both questions by considering the cultural work of images in lived religion and by proposing a theory of vision that lends itself to humanistic study of seeing as socially constructive acts.
Should participants wish to prepare for the session by reading relevant materials, they may find helpful the first and/or second chapters of the author’s study, The Sacred Gaze: Religious Visual Culture in Theory and Practice (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005); and the author’s essay: „The Visual Construction of the Sacred”, in Matteo Stocchetti and Johanna Sumiala-Seppänen, eds., Images and Communities: The Visual Construction of the Social (Helsinki: Gaudeamus-Helsinki University Press, 2007), 53-74. Prior reading of these materials is not required.
