MDST123 Escaping Purgatory: Music and Devotion in Medieval Europe This course will explore the creative expression of religious belief in the music, poetry, literature, art, and architecture of Medieval Europe. We will begin with the everyday experience of monks, nuns, poets, and street musicians. What role did music play in their lives? Was it limited to religious practice and secular festival...

Islamic art is multifaceted and has a great history in fine arts. Religious art, including themes, closely intertwined with culture, philosophy, religious knowledge especially the of our country. Let us consider specific form Muslim that existed since ancient times: shamail, peculiar phenomenon culture an important part aesthetic consciousness. Shamail as carrier written Quranic content – texts...

Pop Art is the representative of a cultural identity that has been represented as a kind of art in the mid-twentieth century. It is based on the ordinary manifes‌tations of people’s lives, and by concentrating on media and propaganda it has become pervasive in a short time as if it is a newly emerged culture that has appeared not from the inside of community but from outside and by those sociol...

We present a theory of the creativity of dreams as well as psychopathology of religious delusions with respect to production of fundamental forms of religious cognition-specifically supernatural agent (SA) cognitions. We suggest that dream cognitions are particularly efficient at producing highly memorable and impactful experiences with SAs because dreams involve three processes that are prereq...

This article focuses on religiousness and spirituality in the art works of psychiatric patients Nikkilä Hospital, Finland. The pictures analysed here belong to a collection held at Helsinki City Museum they were made during twentieth century. theoretical frame study is cultural mental health. approached as presenting specific kind imagery which has connections not only personal history diagnose...

A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11841-021-00852-6

during the history of iran after islam, the 9th /13th century, coinciding with the timurids reign in this land, can be considered as the thriving age of various branches of art such as painting, architecture, illumination, book ornament, and music. similarly, the prevalence and development of scripts such as nasta‘līq and ta‘līq in calligraphy, besides flourishing this art, caused it to establi...