How can the forms and functions of interreligious dialogue be described and understood in a relevant way in the context of contemporary changing religious landscapes? What role can art play as a descriptive metaphor as well as a concrete arena for interreligious dialogue? How do the artists interviewed for this study understand and conceptualize interreligious dialogue? How do they formulate personal existential worldviews in relation to dialogical engagement? What concepts do they use to portray their own engagement and responsibility in the dialogical situation? These research questions, formulated at the beginning of the study, have guided the investigation into theoretical discussions on and empirical analyses of creative interreligious dialogue. To formulate an answer to these questions, I summarize and evaluate the views of the artists on what interreligious dialogue is to them and what role art can play in this form of interpersonal communication. As a conclusion of this chapter, I discuss the relevance of the post-secular perspective to understand the broader implications of the phenomenon of creative dialogue.

It is not an easy task to pin down any strictly binding and comprehensive conclusions on the basis of such a complex, nuanced and lively material as the one treated in this study. My aim, therefore, is not to fit the life stories and worldviews of the artists presented in this book into a stringent template and to present a normative theory of creative interreligious dialogue – such a striving would not, in my opinion, do justice to the richly varied landscape of dialogue explored in the previous chapters.