Recent research on the aesthetics of knowledge in science and in religion

Abstract

As an introduction to the case studies collected in the current special issue, this review article provides a brief, and by no means exhaustive, overview of research that proves to be relevant to the development of a concept of an aesthetics of knowledge in the academic study of religion and in science and technology studies. Finally, it briefly discusses recent work explicitly addressing the aesthetic entangle-ment of science and religion.

Keywords

• Aesthetics; Science; Philosophy of science; Neuroaesthetics; Religion; Religious studies