Need for Developing Interfaith Dialogue Pivoting on Religious Art
Religious affairs expert Javad Karimi in a paper has stressed the need for developing interfaith dialogue pivoting on religious art.
Karimi, who is an expert with the Iranian embassy in the Vatican, has presented the paper to the “Religious in the Mirror of Art” conference.
Executive secretary of the conference Abbas Eqbal-Mehran has told IQNA that the writer in his paper attaches great importance to dialogue between Islam and Christianity in order for promoting understanding and coexistence among followers of the two great Abrahamic faiths, who make up over half of the earth’s population.
“The paper underlines that religious dialogue is an strategic principle in expanding peace and security in the world,” he said. “The question posed in this research is how and through what tools one can spread the common messages of religions, namely spirituality, justice, peace, compassion and goodness, to everyone in the third millennia, in which people’s social lives have become integrated and interwoven with a wired range of audio and video media outlets and above all the cyberspace.”
He said Karimi emphasizes that art should be used as a powerful tool to promote religious dialogue in the world, and that religious arts in various forms such as architecture, sculpture, poetry, music, calligraphy, painting, and cinema can be much more influential than non-religious arts.
Eqbal-Mehran added that Karimi in this paper discusses the technique for employing the language of art, saying this technique has been used in the verses of the holy books of Islam and Christianity.
“Karimi has concluded that there are many grounds and potentials for dialogue, interaction, and sharing experience between followers of Islam and Christianity pivoting on religious art,” he went on to say.
The “Religious in the Mirror of Art” conference is scheduled to be held in Hamedan, western Iran, on April 10-11.
It is jointly organized by the Foreign Affairs Ministry, Islamic Culture and Relations Organization, Center for Interfaith and Inter-civilizational Dialogue, Barberini Museum, Ishraq Cultural Center and a number of other institutes.
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Executive secretary of the conference Abbas Eqbal-Mehran has told IQNA that the writer in his paper attaches great importance to dialogue between Islam and Christianity in order for promoting understanding and coexistence among followers of the two great Abrahamic faiths, who make up over half of the earth’s population.
“The paper underlines that religious dialogue is an strategic principle in expanding peace and security in the world,” he said. “The question posed in this research is how and through what tools one can spread the common messages of religions, namely spirituality, justice, peace, compassion and goodness, to everyone in the third millennia, in which people’s social lives have become integrated and interwoven with a wired range of audio and video media outlets and above all the cyberspace.”
He said Karimi emphasizes that art should be used as a powerful tool to promote religious dialogue in the world, and that religious arts in various forms such as architecture, sculpture, poetry, music, calligraphy, painting, and cinema can be much more influential than non-religious arts.
Eqbal-Mehran added that Karimi in this paper discusses the technique for employing the language of art, saying this technique has been used in the verses of the holy books of Islam and Christianity.
“Karimi has concluded that there are many grounds and potentials for dialogue, interaction, and sharing experience between followers of Islam and Christianity pivoting on religious art,” he went on to say.
The “Religious in the Mirror of Art” conference is scheduled to be held in Hamedan, western Iran, on April 10-11.
It is jointly organized by the Foreign Affairs Ministry, Islamic Culture and Relations Organization, Center for Interfaith and Inter-civilizational Dialogue, Barberini Museum, Ishraq Cultural Center and a number of other institutes.
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