The Incorporation of Religious Rituals in Contemporary Ceramic Art"

Abstract

Abstract

The current research focused on studying the nature of religious forms in contemporary ceramics, from the artistic, aesthetic, and philosophical perspectives of religious definitions. Through this cognitive framework, the researcher presented the research problem in the introduction, which asked: What is the nature of religious forms that present their ritual and aesthetic specificity in contemporary ceramics? The importance of the research then emerged in shedding light on understanding the nature of religious forms and the extent of their acceptance and interaction with the recipient, as aesthetic forms separate from their religious function. The research then aimed to define and reveal the prevailing discourse of religious forms in contemporary ceramics, and then the objective, temporal, and spatial boundaries for the integration of the research methodology. The theoretical framework was represented by two chapters: the first, the concept of religion in thought and art, and the second, religious forms and their mechanisms of operation in art. The third chapter, then, deals with aesthetic religious formal texts in contemporary ceramics. The results and conclusions summarize the entire subject of the research, followed by sources and references. Some of the keywords mentioned are (heritage, religion, symbol, contemporaneity, metaphor, ritual, environment).