Sensing Sound: Aesthetic and Religious Experience According to al-Ghazālī

Metaphor, Religious Language and Religious Experience

Is it possible to talk about God without either misrepresentation or failing to assert anything of significance? The article begins by reviewing how, in attempting to answer this question, traditional theories of religious language have failed to sidestep both potential pitfalls adequately. After arguing that recently developed theories of metaphor seem better able to shed light on the nature o...

Psychedelics and Religious Experience

revelation experience and the argument of imagination according to ibn-al-arabi

according to ibn-al-arabi, the bound world or detached imagination is a divine graded excellency in which both the abstract and material world are exemplified. perception of such manifestation is possible through formal discovery; because the creatures that appear in this realm, have both the delicacy of abstraction and the ability to be tangible like material things. perception of these creatu...

Religious Experience and Mystical Intuition Structurally Compared

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Sound, Listening and Place: The aesthetic dilemma

A purely aesthetic approach may be problematic when artists wish to deal with the external world as part of their work. The work of R. Murray Schafer in formulating soundscape studies is described, as well as the author’s extension of that work within a communicational framework. Soundscape composition is situated within a continuum of possibilities, each with its own practice of mapping or rep...