Should Aesthetic Experiences be reclassified as Spiritual Experiences?

Annalisa Burello, LSE MSc Student in Social Anthropology of Religion in the Contemporary World - 2019

  • The difficulty of defining spirituality or the spiritual. This ontological impasse makes it very difficult to theorise spiritual art

  • Better luck with spiritual experience: there is more consensus across disciplines about the phenomenological nature of spiritual experiences

  • The role of the Right Hemisphere for art, religion and spiritual experiences

  • If art can engender a spiritual experience, then the realm of spiritual experiences should be expanded to included non religious contexts

  • Art can provide an outlet to cultivate the spiritual.

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