Religious aesthetics have gained increasing importance over the past few years in the fields of
Religious studies and Islamic studies. This volume highlights the transcultural dimensions of
the theoretical foundations of religious aesthetics. It explores aesthetic experience in the
religious field through a series of case studies. These include Islamic sermons from the Middle
East and South Asia Islamic religious chanting a chapter of the Qur an a German performance
artist Indian rasa theory and Arabic and Bengali literature. Together the authors
demonstrate that the analysis of the aesthetic forms of religious mediation across regions and
genres is a fruitful approach to transcultural studies.
