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THE ENCOUNTER BETWEEN FAITHS AND AN ‘AESTHETIC ATTITUDE’.
- Source :
- Heythrop Journal; Jan2007, Vol. 48 Issue 1, p29-47, 19p
- Publication Year :
- 2007
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Abstract
- This paper contains a discussion of the idea of using what could loosely be called an ‘aesthetic attitude’ (stemming largely from Kantian notions of disinterest and explicitly articulated by such writers in the 20<superscript>th</superscript> century as Edward Bullough and Jerome Stolnitz) in the context of the encounter between religions. The ‘problem’ that is addressed is formulated as an attempt to find a space in which the participation of those with committed faith positions (e.g. conservative evangelicals) in sympathetic and empathetic meeting with other faiths can be facilitated. To this end, the paper is critical of the use of spirituality (or inter-spirituality) as an oft-suggested mode by which religions meet and ‘converse’ in depth-encounters. That is, it is argued that the language of inter-spirituality that is employed by some interfaith writers often betrays liberal assumptions that are unsettling for more committed religious persons. Thus, it is suggested that by changing the language of encounter from ‘inter-spirituality’ to a more aesthetic (or playful) mode of discourse, one is creating a different, but nonetheless experientially recognisable, space of empathetic meeting and encounter that might be deemed ‘safer’. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- FAITH
RELIGION
ATTITUDE (Psychology)
SPIRITUALITY
CONDUCT of life
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00181196
- Volume :
- 48
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Heythrop Journal
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 23482041
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2265.2007.00304.x