Editorial. Art approaching religion and science

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. Bengt Kristensson Uggla, Åbo Akademi University Bengt Kristensson Uggla is Amos Anderson Professor of Philosophy, Culture, and Management at Åbo Akademi University. After defending his doctoral thesis on Paul Ricoeur at Lund University (Sweden) in 1994, he has been associated with a number of European and American universities, together with significant management positions, such as Dean at the IFL, Swedish Institute of Management: Stockholm-Brussels-Moscow 2001–4. He is a member of the board editorial committee of the Tomonobu Imamichi Institute for Eco-Ethica (Tokyo-Copenhagen), member of the European Cultural Parliament (ECP), he was head of the Nomadic University for Art, Philosophy and Enterprise in Europe 2006–10 and is now acting as the scientific leader of the Amos Anderson Laboratory for Artful Making, AmosLAB. Kristensson Uggla has developed a kind of cross-disciplinary hermeneutics in a number of books and articles; the following books are still available in English: Ricoeur, Hermeneutics, and Globalization (2010), Trust and Organizations: Confidence across Borders (2013), and Becoming Human Again: The Theological Life of Gustaf Wingren (2016).Editorial for the special issue on the theme of art appraoching religion and science