The Discursive Potential of Prayer: the Question of Transformation of Religious Genre in Space of Art Cover Image

Дискурсивний потенціал молитви: до питання про трансформацію релігійно-культового жанру в мистецькому просторі
The Discursive Potential of Prayer: the Question of Transformation of Religious Genre in Space of Art

Author(s): Irina Danilenko
Subject(s): Visual Arts, Religion and science , Philosophy of Religion
Published by: Uniwersytet Jana Długosza w Częstochowie
Keywords: prayer; transcendental communication; genre; religion; ritual; art; transformation; reasoning;

Summary/Abstract: In the proposed article the author makes an attempt to analyse the aesthetic potential of prayer as a religious-cult genre. Attention is focused on the genetic and ontological causes of organic adaptation of the prayer in a secular cultural space, the features of modification and appearance of the dominant in verbal and nonverbal art forms (literature, painting, sculpture etc.).

  • Issue Year: 2016
  • Issue No: XII
  • Page Range: 43-51
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Ukrainian