Response to Melissa Raphael
Illman, Ruth (2016)
The Donner Institute, Åbo Akademi
2016
Kuvaus
Ruth Illman, The Donner Institute
Ruth Illman is docent of comparative religion at Åbo Akademi University and director of the Donner Institute for Research in Religious and Cultural History in Turku, Finland. Her main research interests include interreligious dialogue, religion and art, and contemporary Judaism. Among her recent publications are the books Art and Belief: Artists Engaged in Interreligious Dialogue (Routledge 2012) and Theology and the Arts: Engaging Faith, co-authored with W. Alan Smith (Routledge 2013, paperback edn 2016). She is the editor of Approaching Religion and Scripta Instituti Donneriani, published by the Donner Institute, and, together with Karin Hedner Zetterholm, of the peer-reviewed journal Nordisk judaistik – Scandinavian Jewish Studies.
Ruth Illman is docent of comparative religion at Åbo Akademi University and director of the Donner Institute for Research in Religious and Cultural History in Turku, Finland. Her main research interests include interreligious dialogue, religion and art, and contemporary Judaism. Among her recent publications are the books Art and Belief: Artists Engaged in Interreligious Dialogue (Routledge 2012) and Theology and the Arts: Engaging Faith, co-authored with W. Alan Smith (Routledge 2013, paperback edn 2016). She is the editor of Approaching Religion and Scripta Instituti Donneriani, published by the Donner Institute, and, together with Karin Hedner Zetterholm, of the peer-reviewed journal Nordisk judaistik – Scandinavian Jewish Studies.
Tiivistelmä
A response to Melissa Raphael’s article ‘The creation of beauty by its destruction: the idoloclastic aesthetic in modern and contemporary Jewish art’. Key themes discussed include the notion of human beings as created in the image of God, Levinas’s understanding of the face and its ethical demand as well as the contemporary issue of the commodification of the human face in digital media.