The relation between Religion and Art has been rethought on numerous occasions based on the dialectic from the aesthetic experience, specially through the discourses between the materiality and the inmateriality. The aesthetic experiences can be felt by different form according to the predisposition of the individual person; but all of them are immersed in the wide mosaic that artistic creation generates, as well as the range that comes from the religious field. The fusion point between both spaces lies in the particular way of seeing, interpreting and experiencing reality.In our panel we propose to discuss and reflect on religion from within artistic reception through different approaches, like architecture in cult space, the messages of colour iconology, paintings, the literature, the music, etc. And all of these disciplines are united by the importance of aesthetic experiences, both from believers and other people.Nowadays, among the consequences of the process of secularization in 21th century we find a kind of rupture and confrontation between the way to understand and approach all of these religious concepts from the artistic world. It is highly relevant that we continue to deepen this relationship from Academia to enrich the plethora of meanings associated with religious life -changing- and the important legacy -material and inmaterial- present in the cities of Europe."Chair: Cristina Expósito de Vicente (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)Speakers:Charlton Chase (Fordham University), Religion-as-non-finito / Aesthetics-as-fragmentaryBelen Cuenca Abellán (Universidad Pablo de Olavide), Aesthetic Experience between Christianism and Early Islam. From Hagia Sophia to Cordoba MosqueElena Lisovskaya (Western Michigan University), Where the aesthetic meets the religious: Modern Western women’s experience with the ancient art of iconographyJavier Recio Huetos (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Christ the Liberator: Christian Iconography of Liberation Eva María Rodrigo (Hebrew University of Jerusalem), God as an artist creator of beautyJames Lorenz (York St John University), Creation, Creativity, and the Vocation of the Artist in Tarkovsky’s Andrei Rublev (1966)Johanna Bokedal (NLA University College), Church or Museum? On the Experience of Romanesque Church Murals in the Catalonian National Museum of ArtRosslyn Brown (University of Nottingham), The Relationship between Religion and Art in KabbalahCristina Expósito de Vicente (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), Biblical exegesis through the visual arts. The opera "Salome" by Richard Strauss and the creation of the femme fataleJosé María Toro Piqueras (Universidad de Sevilla / Università Ca’ Foscari-Venezia), Where May Afternoons Land: Aesthetic Experiences of Religious Epiphany on the Black Screen. The case of The Young Pope