Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: AESTHETICS AND HERMENEUTICS: MODERN ART, MYSTICAL EXPERIENCE, AND TEXTUAL INTERPRETATION

Department: Religion

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Sacred texts and the visual arts have contributed immeasurably to shaping individual and collective conceptions of the spiritual in modern and postmodern culture. This course will examine a range of aesthetic and hermeneutic traditions, including mystical texts, modernist artworks and related museum exhibitions, in order to consider the ways in which the experiences of reading, writing, and viewing can serve as powerful acts of self-creation. Cross-list: HART 393, Graduate/Undergraduate Equivalency: RELI 502.