Knowledge Commons | Aesthetics of Religion – Research Network | Activity https://hcommons.org/groups/aesthetics-of-religion-research-network/ Activity feed for the group, Aesthetics of Religion – Research Network. Sat, 04 Apr 2026 13:12:38 -0400 https://buddypress.org/?v=10.6.0 en-US 30 hourly 2 04b9d2e21d6cd0a44b84bb873722182e Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Felt Connections Across the Indian Ocean: An Ethnographic Encounter with Grand Bassin, Mauritius in the group Aesthetics of Religion – Research Network https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884702/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:32:11 -0400 It is appropriate to understand the Mauritian Hindu state bourgeoisie’s diasporic politics based on Hindu connections to India as a strategy to consolidate their power. This strategy stands for the creation of a postcolonial nation in which such communities built on religious origins and transnational networks, Mauritian Hindus being by far the l…[Read more]

]]> 0 dcd34e6aa28f131857eddafd9d10a971 Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Sonic atmospheres in Mauritian devotional Islam: Sensing transoceanic connections in a Creole society in the group Aesthetics of Religion – Research Network https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884698/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:31:46 -0400 Movement constitutes transoceanic spaces such as the Indian Ocean world. Sonic practices as atmospheres make such multilayered movements and connections palpable. The recitation of naʻt among Mauritian Muslims is an example of how sound and sonic practices can provide somatic evidence for transoceanic links in the Indian Ocean world. It is argued…[Read more]

]]> 0 6083cbc30b036ae29592da0821f87aee Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Atmospheres: The multisensoriality of spatially extended emotions in the group Aesthetics of Religion – Research Network https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884695/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:31:31 -0400 In this essay, I introduce an analytic of atmosphere as a way to bridge the gap between the phenomenology of the felt-body and the anthropology of the senses. This analytic of atmospheres as multisensoriality partially aligns with, but also differs from other anthropological approaches to multisensoriality or the anthropology of the senses.…[Read more]

]]> 0 308e0c0ba99ee5b2b195db9642b2a417 Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Twelver Shia Muslims’ right to the city: Public performance, media practices, and urban atmospheres in Mumbai in the group Aesthetics of Religion – Research Network https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1884662/ Wed, 01 May 2024 03:28:21 -0400 This chapter examines public religious performances and media practices among Twelver Shia Muslims in Mumbai. I argue that such practices produce intertwined claims of belonging on multiple levels. Public religious performances and their mediatic reproductions, particularly their sonic and movement-related dimensions, establish certain…[Read more]

]]> 0 14d82297a30927d747d851a3df0cce0a Frédéric Lefrançois deposited « Itinéraire pour retrouver la géographie de soi »,"Itinerary to Reclaim a Mapping of the Self" in the group Aesthetics of Religion – Research Network https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1879330/ Wed, 13 Mar 2024 03:02:28 -0400 March 1, 2018 was the day of study organized by the CEREAP-CRILLASH on the theme: ‘Cartographies and Identity Topology’ at the University of the West Indies. ‘Route to Find the Geography of Self’ is the title of the work produced by the artist David Né. This creation, which is both pictorial and performative, embraces the concept of the card in…[Read more]

]]> 0 f9633f3410b0bd3935f3650ee622c20b Priyadarshini Gupta started the topic Living in the Era of Neo-Orientalism-call for papers. Online Conference. in the discussion Aesthetics of Religion – Research Network https://hcommons.org/groups/aesthetics-of-religion-research-network/forum/topic/living-in-the-era-of-neo-orientalism-call-for-papers-online-conference-12/ Fri, 01 Dec 2023 11:56:15 -0500 This is a call for papers for an interdisciplinary conference hosted by O.P. Jindal Global University, Delhi-NCR, India [Deadline Extended] 

Title of the Conference: Living in the Era of Neo-Orientalism: Complicating Muslim Identities in a Post-9/11 World

Conference dates: 3rd and 4th of February, 2024

Mode of the conference: Online

Muslims ar…[Read more]

]]> 710cc77d2b53c826472c06a92291eaec Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Atmospheric resonance: Sonic motion and the question of religious mediation in the group Aesthetics of Religion – Research Network https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1834091/ Mon, 13 Feb 2023 02:26:39 -0500 Because of its material characteristics, the sonic poses a challenge to the influential paradigm of religion as mediation. This article makes a case for a neo-phenomenological analytic of atmospheres in order to do justice to the sonic in anthropological approaches to religion. Approaching the sonic as atmospheric half-things, I propose a…[Read more]

]]> 0 59404ff2ac15e2942aac8f27ab111bca Alexandra Grieser uploaded the file: Abstracts Panels EASR conference Cork 2022: "Simulation" to Aesthetics of Religion – Research Network https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1787179/ Fri, 15 Jul 2022 11:32:54 -0400 0 e255a1a41fd1675f50c4fae2009e2d35 Alexandra Grieser started the topic Panels on "Simulation as a Key Term for the AoR": EASR 2022 in the discussion Aesthetics of Religion – Research Network https://hcommons.org/groups/aesthetics-of-religion-research-network/forum/topic/panels-on-simulation-as-a-key-term-for-the-aor-easr-2022/ Fri, 15 Jul 2022 11:28:14 -0400 Dear colleagues,

please see the latest activity of the Research Network: three structured and connected panels, which explored the potential of "simulation" as a concept for the AoR, covering theoretical approaches, analysis of historical material, and didactic approaches.

Publication plans are in the making, and the group would be interested in…[Read more]

]]> d2373a3e7f79a08adf4762405dacb7fa Andreas Melson Gregersen replied to the topic The role of atmosphere in Aesthetics of Religion in the discussion Aesthetics of Religion – Research Network https://hcommons.org/groups/aesthetics-of-religion-research-network/forum/topic/the-role-of-atmosphere-in-aesthetics-of-religion/#post-58388 Thu, 12 May 2022 20:00:35 -0400 Hi everyone,

I am still new to this format, so I am little unsure how to share work. But for those of you who are interested in atmosphere, I have a new paper published in Poetics. It is called “An Affective Religious Boundary Tool” (2022), and it examines the strategic role of an atmosphere as a type of boundary object in a Copenhagen Night Chu…[Read more]

]]> 44727fb09bae23b18696061669d5a976 Patrick Eisenlohr deposited Atmospheric citizenship: Sonic movement and public religion in Shi‘i Mumbai in the group Aesthetics of Religion – Research Network https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1776433/ Thu, 31 Mar 2022 02:25:14 -0400 In Mumbai the sonic dimensions of place‐making and religious life are deeply connected to the right to the city. For Twelver Shi‘i Muslims, who are marginal to both the city and the nation, public religious rituals and processions have long played very important roles in staging claims to the city. Investigating the sonic aspects of urban pla…[Read more]

]]> 0 17917951b7687614ee5bfda27b95445e Andreas Melson Gregersen replied to the topic The role of atmosphere in Aesthetics of Religion in the discussion Aesthetics of Religion – Research Network https://hcommons.org/groups/aesthetics-of-religion-research-network/forum/topic/the-role-of-atmosphere-in-aesthetics-of-religion/#post-56996 Wed, 09 Mar 2022 12:16:08 -0500 Dear Gerrit,

Thank you also for engaging me in this discussion. I hope to have the opportunity to discuss atmospheres and aesthetics of religion with you and the other scholars working within this frame.

I wish you all the best with your work.

Best regards,
Andreas

]]> a66a66f3d3aa7403675718fb404eafbd Gerrit Lange replied to the topic The role of atmosphere in Aesthetics of Religion in the discussion Aesthetics of Religion – Research Network https://hcommons.org/groups/aesthetics-of-religion-research-network/forum/topic/the-role-of-atmosphere-in-aesthetics-of-religion/#post-56782 Thu, 24 Feb 2022 21:00:10 -0500 Dear Andreas,

I find your questions provocative in the best sense, in that they force me to make clear what I did during the last years. To be honest, I have no final answer yet to either of Your questions - but these answers are exactly what I need to finish my thesis. Understanding emotions as practices comes very close to what I am doing. To…[Read more]

]]> 1cc25bbc41b6fc29095bc56fe1f2007e Andreas Melson Gregersen replied to the topic The role of atmosphere in Aesthetics of Religion in the discussion Aesthetics of Religion – Research Network https://hcommons.org/groups/aesthetics-of-religion-research-network/forum/topic/the-role-of-atmosphere-in-aesthetics-of-religion/#post-56780 Thu, 24 Feb 2022 19:45:32 -0500 Dear Gerrit,  Thank you for your reply. Your movies sound very interesting. I am not quite sure, I followed everything you noted. I suspect this is a result of a lack of understanding on my behalf. As a notorious vague term, however, it is certainly difficult to explicate in precise terms what we mean by atmospheres. Perhaps, it is even…[Read more]

]]> ede2339b183b1e4051993d21adb102ef Gerrit Lange replied to the topic The role of atmosphere in Aesthetics of Religion in the discussion Aesthetics of Religion – Research Network https://hcommons.org/groups/aesthetics-of-religion-research-network/forum/topic/the-role-of-atmosphere-in-aesthetics-of-religion/#post-56706 Tue, 22 Feb 2022 11:47:00 -0500 Dear Alexandra and Andreas,

thank you for keeping this going!

 

Unfortunately, I have nothing so far published on atmospheres. I spent the last years making a kind of ethnographic movie series to "capture" something like moods or atmospheres and the strategies of their creation, but I have so far shied away from writing about my movie and its…[Read more]

]]> c3cd83975384b9debf2bf6c691ac0f23 Andreas Melson Gregersen replied to the topic The role of atmosphere in Aesthetics of Religion in the discussion Aesthetics of Religion – Research Network https://hcommons.org/groups/aesthetics-of-religion-research-network/forum/topic/the-role-of-atmosphere-in-aesthetics-of-religion/#post-56577 Thu, 17 Feb 2022 14:38:14 -0500 Dear Alexandra (and all others interested),

Thank your insightful and thorough input. You raise several important points. To keep the discussion going let me rehearse my stated desire to inquiry into the present state of research within the broader framework of Aesthetics of Religion (that is, including studies on material religion and religion…[Read more]

]]> 549342f7ed9a68d33f13ab40f4126d4f Alexandra Grieser replied to the topic The role of atmosphere in Aesthetics of Religion in the discussion Aesthetics of Religion – Research Network https://hcommons.org/groups/aesthetics-of-religion-research-network/forum/topic/the-role-of-atmosphere-in-aesthetics-of-religion/#post-56546 Wed, 16 Feb 2022 10:35:25 -0500 Dear all, dear Andreas,

many thanks for this interesting and stimulating discussion, it is exactly what we initially hope for that it would happen on this platform.

Also thnks for focussing the discussion on two questions:

1) Was this a symptom of a desire to move pass phenomenological approaches to atmospheres. OR,2) Was it because atmosphere…[Read more]

]]> d307a0b10c675a515f4a5d3d9b0234a5 Andreas Melson Gregersen replied to the topic The role of atmosphere in Aesthetics of Religion in the discussion Aesthetics of Religion – Research Network https://hcommons.org/groups/aesthetics-of-religion-research-network/forum/topic/the-role-of-atmosphere-in-aesthetics-of-religion/#post-56517 Mon, 14 Feb 2022 22:57:20 -0500 Dear Gerrit,

Thank you very much for taking the time and replying in such a thoughtful and informative manner. This was very helpful!

While I have read Aesthetics of Religion: A Connective Concept carefully, I am still in the process of reading through the Bloomsbury Handbook. From your response, I can understand I have much to look forward to…[Read more]

]]> 700750a100ba22d7c06e626f8864560b Gerrit Lange replied to the topic The role of atmosphere in Aesthetics of Religion in the discussion Aesthetics of Religion – Research Network https://hcommons.org/groups/aesthetics-of-religion-research-network/forum/topic/the-role-of-atmosphere-in-aesthetics-of-religion/#post-56505 Mon, 14 Feb 2022 16:17:42 -0500 Dear Andreas (if I may),

In my PhD dissertation I aim to capture the "atmospheres" which are "evoked" in the worship of a Central Himalayan Hindu Goddess by means of writing and filming, especially with an AoR framework. I know the articles by Martin Rademacher and think that he is methodologically quite close to the AoR (or AestoR) approach,…[Read more]

]]> bde8342a1d899ff079f03f2f472fda65 Andreas Melson Gregersen started the topic The role of atmosphere in Aesthetics of Religion in the discussion Aesthetics of Religion – Research Network https://hcommons.org/groups/aesthetics-of-religion-research-network/forum/topic/the-role-of-atmosphere-in-aesthetics-of-religion/ Mon, 14 Feb 2022 13:07:49 -0500 Dear AoR-network,

I hope this is not inappropriate and out of format. If so, I apologize and do not expect any response. As a PhD-student I have been exploring the production, mediation and negotiation of atmospheres in a Copenhagen Night Church. In this regard, I have learned a lot from Aesthetics of Religion. However, momentarily, I am also…[Read more]

]]> 9139778b6beccaa6f6f2b695d5d69c9f Carlo Morelli deposited Homologous Ipseitic Metanoias of Saint Paul and Doctoral Learners: A Biblical Exegesis Comparing the Transformative Journeys of Saint Paul and Doctoral Researchers in the group Aesthetics of Religion – Research Network https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1751950/ Wed, 15 Sep 2021 02:24:22 -0400 This article presents biblical exegesis and parallel synthetic thematic analysis comparing the transformative journeys of Saint Paul and doctoral researchers concluding the religious conversion of Saint Paul of Tarsus and the identity-transforming journey a student undergoes from burgeoning researcher to doctoral scholar represent parallel…[Read more]

]]> 0 332da5d04768d7ca20c5f20ddd4ed22e anne koch deposited Bruce Lincoln "Thesen zur Methodik" (1996) in the group Aesthetics of Religion – Research Network https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1750579/ Thu, 02 Sep 2021 02:23:50 -0400 German Translation of Bruce Lincoln, Theses on Method. Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 17.1 (2005) 8-10, DOI: 10.1163/1570068053429910; first published Method and Theory in the Study of Religion 8.3 (1996) 225-227, online: https://religion.ua.edu/links/theses-on-method/ by Anne Koch

]]> 0 8e732ab4f9a55fd939349eb554a9cdab Christopher Edwards deposited Centre and Circumference: William Blake on the Political Divide in the group Aesthetics of Religion – Research Network https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1724954/ Tue, 26 Jan 2021 02:24:36 -0500 This essay was conceived as an 'op-ed' submission in response to the disturbing events in Washington D.C. this January. It is a practical application of the model of experience that was outlined in the paper 'On Being Dimensional'. It offers a different perspective on the arguments that characterize a liberal and a conservative.

]]> 0 8324723a06d7dcdc200ccc0a20b40e58 Christopher Edwards deposited On Being Dimensional in the group Aesthetics of Religion – Research Network https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1689673/ Wed, 03 Jun 2020 16:25:59 -0400 This paper addresses a curious pattern of interlocking relationships. This pattern unfolds in a fixed form of ever-changing content, or what is often described as a ‘standing wave’. I will attribute this pattern to the interactive nervous system that synchronizes the periodic effects of four, neurological functions. These functions connect a par…[Read more]

]]> 0 3abd63310ba685b8689cad5742b86638 Esther-Maria Guggenmos started the topic Bloomsbury Handbook on display at the AAR in the discussion Aesthetics of Religion – Research Network https://hcommons.org/groups/aesthetics-of-religion-research-network/forum/topic/bllomsbury-handbook-on-display-at-the-aar/ Sun, 24 Nov 2019 17:57:55 -0500 Nice to see our handbook on display at the AAR in San Diego with Bloomsbury...

]]> 7cab84818b4fb8bce77f2dbe9587306a Esther-Maria Guggenmos replied to the topic XR religionsästhetisch in the discussion Aesthetics of Religion – Research Network https://hcommons.org/groups/aesthetics-of-religion-research-network/forum/topic/xr-religionsasthetisch/#post-26337 Fri, 25 Oct 2019 12:19:40 -0400 Liebe Alexandra, Danke Dir! Ja, pointiert und präzise hast Du das auf den Punkt gebracht. Die Aktionsform des zivilen Ungehorsams hatte ich im zweiten Interviewteil, der geschnitten werden musste, reingebracht. Es ist wirklich schön, das in Deiner Antwort so elegant ausformuliert zu sehen. Ich finde es erst mal begrüßenswert, wenn sich jemand für…[Read more]

]]> dcfff9a066163209e4605891047a3a2f Alexandra Grieser replied to the topic XR religionsästhetisch in the discussion Aesthetics of Religion – Research Network https://hcommons.org/groups/aesthetics-of-religion-research-network/forum/topic/xr-religionsasthetisch/#post-26334 Fri, 25 Oct 2019 00:38:01 -0400 Dear all, very interesting topic, and I had a few thoughts to add to this. I realised, however, that the comments on the sputnik site are populist, to put it mildly. Sputnik is a Russian news agency, which is described as promoting "alternative news". I am not willing to engage there, but maybe people in this group who have read Esther-Maria's…[Read more]

]]> 635da1efb609930fe436c08ffd592eab Esther-Maria Guggenmos started the topic XR religionsästhetisch in the discussion Aesthetics of Religion – Research Network https://hcommons.org/groups/aesthetics-of-religion-research-network/forum/topic/xr-religionsasthetisch/ Wed, 23 Oct 2019 20:56:11 -0400 Der junge Journalist Valentin Raskatov von Sputnik News wollte sich mit mir über religionsästhetische Aspekte bei XR unterhalten: https://de.sputniknews.com/gesellschaft/20191021325889015-extinction-rebellion-weltuntergangssekte/ Er freut sich, wenn man ihn bei religionswissenschaftlich interessanten Themen kontaktiert.

]]> 6bfc153f576d76cd77012ab381560b7d Alexandra Grieser uploaded the file: Open Access - "The Beauty Fallacy" to Aesthetics of Religion – Research Network https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1662945/ Mon, 09 Sep 2019 20:09:17 -0400 Special Issue of Approaching Religion 7/2 2017
The 'Beauty Fallacy' Religion, science and the aesthetics of knowledge
edited by Arianna Borrelli, Alexandra Grieser
https://journal.fi/ar/issue/view/4729

]]> 0 a548cc7998dd5b94a822a11ba7e09f58 anne koch started the topic New: Bloomsbury Handbook of the Cultural and Cognitive Aesthetics of Religion in the discussion Aesthetics of Religion – Research Network https://hcommons.org/groups/aesthetics-of-religion-research-network/forum/topic/new-bloomsbury-handbook-of-the-cultural-and-cognitive-aesthetics-of-religion/ Mon, 09 Sep 2019 10:47:01 -0400 The new Bloomsbury Handbook of the Cultural and Cognitive Aesthetics of Religion HCCAR is published!

Bridging the gap between culture and cognition, this handbook explores both scientific and humanities approaches to understanding the biophysical processes and meanings of religious life. It theorizes aesthetics as a fundamental paradigm for…[Read more]

]]> e266c3e6ea31bf644411f15f79bd2ea2 Adrian Hermann created the group Aesthetics of Religion – Research Network https://hcommons.org/activity/p/1662369/ Tue, 03 Sep 2019 12:56:18 -0400 0