Svetlana Makhlina
(St. Petersburg University of Culture and Art, Russia)

 

 

Abstract: Religion gives the viewpoint associated with the idea of God. In the end, scrutinizing essential traits of the religious viewpoint, you come to the conclusion all religions come to an agreement concerning one fact that there is the One God. But every region, every national environment has its own way to come to it. In contemporary world the stereotype of Islam is that of terrorism, aggression and bellicosity. It is clear that this is a wrong and distorted image. No doubt every nation, every region developed their own symbolic definitions of these or those peculiarities of the surrounding reality. It was embodied in the art. Despite the differences we can feel internal commonality of Christian and Muslim codes. Commonality of the Christian and the Muslim arts prevails over the differences and it is this commonality that can become the stimulus for peaceful co-existence of all members of Christianity and Islam nowadays.

 

 

Key words: religion, Christian Art, Muslim Art, the light, symbols, Apophatic, Cataphatic