09/07/2025 08:30
- 12:00
HALL: Lecture Hall 29
Proponent:
Amore D.S.
Chair:
Siniscalco L.
Speaker:
Amore D.S.,
Badea G.,
Camerlengo N.M.,
Casadio G.,
D'Agostino E.,
Enéas Costa M.M.,
Ratkovcic R.,
Scianguetta R.,
Siniscalco L.,
Teparic M.
The panel would address the contemporary discussion, both within diverse religious communities and scholars in religious studies, of the relationship between the sacred and contemporary artistic forms. Indeed, in modernity the traditional artistic religious languages entered in a face of crisis, connected to the processes of modernisation, secularization and demythologization. On religious art different approaches have emerged: decrease of interest and thematization; defence of conservative values and styles, often no more able to express the Zeitgeist; naive adaptation to profane forms of aesthetics. The recent cultural transformations, often defined through the notions of postmodernism or post-secularism, seem however to open new horizons for a debate on this topic and new reflections on the opportunity to reshape the relationship between the sacred and art are emerging. The panel will address this topic, through an interdisciplinary and interreligious approach.