Baptism is the sacramental celebration of Christian initiation. Paul’s letter to Romans, which central understanding baptism, characterizes this event as a dying with Christ and beginning new existence. This mode existence gains an aesthetic-performative form in liturgical rites. The design spaces can then be understood “petrified rites”. imperial church basilicas baptisteries Byzantine period ...

Building upon earlier analysis of Eliade’s ‘sacred’ as ‘the intentional object of human experience that is apprehended as the real’ (Rennie 1996, 21) this article pursues the concept of the apprehension of the sacred in empirical experience as described by Eliade in his discussion of religious symbols. Using a variety of visual analogies an attempt is made to understand what Eliade’s understand...

This paper describes the concept, creative process and development decisions regarding an interactive art installation that materializes a point of view on the conflict between the notions of ‘sacred’ and ‘profane’ in a particular Portuguese religious festival. The initiative, besides constituting an experiment on the usage of a physical pendulum as control method, aimed to combine three main d...