This article examines co-creative engagement with sacred art, focusing on the TheoArtistry initiative at the University of St Andrews and live interview responses at the Festival of Sacred Arts (FSA) during the 2021 and 2022 Edinburgh Fringe. TheoArtistry pairs artists with theologians and biblical scholars to create works inviting collaborative, interpretive encounters with scripture, theology, and Christian culture. While prior scholarship has emphasised the production of theologically-informed art, this study foregrounds reception as a co-creative, theologically meaningful process. Drawing on interviews and surveys, it shows that audiences actively participate in meaning-making, shaped by intrinsic factors such as theological literacy and imaginative openness, and extrinsic factors including spatial and institutional contexts. Conceptual lenses such as the “beholder’s share,” co-creation, reciprocity, and situatedness illuminate how reception can extend, enrich, or transform theological understanding. These findings advance theological aesthetics and practical theology, portraying spectatorship as a dynamic site of revelation and formation.
Authenticity plays a crucial role in the legitimation and valorization within the cultural field. This study examines outsider art, a category labeled as “identity art” and characterized by a “culture of authenticity.” Based on data collected from 104 galleries and studios, it employs the narrative approach to analyze...
This study explores Psalm 104 as a key biblical text for eco-theological reflection, highlighting creation's active participation in divine praise. Against the backdrop of escalating ecological crises, theology increasingly turns to Scripture for models ofsustainable ethics and creation care. However, while considerabl...
Kolade Samuel Oluwasegun· BIBLICAL STUDIES JOURNAL· 0 citations
This study is situated at the intersection of two fields: the exploratory practices of female experimental artists and the speculative extension of the female body in imagery and philosophical texts. Employing textual analysis alongside examples from visual texts, this research reconstructed and critiqued structuralist...
Zhuo-Ran Zhang· Frontiers in Communication· 0 citations
This article contextualizes feminine self-assertion within European avant-garde movements, tracing the
transition of women from nineteenth-century muses to the "militant muses" and independent creators
of twentieth-century modernity. By redefining their roles from passive subjects to agents of rebellion,
women opened n...
Alexandru Foitoș· The International Conference...· 0 citations
The visual identity of Black Metal is deeply rooted in 19th-century Romanticism, particularly through themes of nature, solitude, and the “Sublime”. This paper explores the intersection between the iconography found in Black Metal album covers — the subject of the author’s doctoral research — and the directorial strate...
This article examines how the notion of Otherness is produced, negotiated, and contested within the encounter between the anthropologist and the informant. Drawing on postcolonial and cultural theory -notably the work of James Clifford, Homi Bhabha, Gayatri Spivak, Edward Said, Michel Foucault, and Clifford Geertz- the...
Omar ID Moulid· International journal of soc...· 0 citations
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