ISBN:
9781350078666
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1350078662
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9781350078659
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9781350078642
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xvi, 332 pages)
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Illustrationen
Year of publication:
2019
Series Statement:
Bloomsbury studies in material religion
Series Statement:
Bloomsbury Open Access
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Figurations and sensations of the unseen in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
DDC:
201/.67
Keywords:
Arts and religion
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Spirituality in art
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Aesthetics Religious aspects
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Judaism
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Aesthetics Religious aspects
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Christianity
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Aesthetics Religious aspects
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Islam
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Aesthetics ; Religious aspects ; Christianity
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Aesthetics ; Religious aspects ; Islam
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Aesthetics ; Religious aspects ; Judaism
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Arts and religion
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Spirituality in art
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Künste
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Religion
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Spiritualität
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Schönheit
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Ästhetik
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Geschmack
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Geistliches Leben
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Frömmigkeit
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Spiritualität
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Judentum
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Christentum
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Islam
Abstract:
Imagining Solomon's Temple : aesthetics of the non-representable / Terje Stordalen -- Aesthetic sensations of Mary : the miraculous icon of Meryem Ana and the dynamics of interreligious relations in Antakya / Jens Kreinath -- The Art of Incarnation : loss and return of religion in Houellebecq's Submission / Christiane Kruse.
Abstract:
"This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by the University of Oslo and Utrecht University. Judaism, Christianity and Islam are known to privilege words over images. This book shows, however, that the reality is more complex. Figurations and Sensations of the Unseen explores the complex procedures used to render the invisible as visible and the elusive as tangible in these three traditions. Working from different disciplinary angles, contributors reflect on figuration and sensation in biblical culture, medieval Jewish culture, the imagination of the unseen in Islamic settings, Christian assaults on 'idolatry' in Africa, baroque and modern Church art, contemporary Eastern Orthodox tradition, photography on the East African coast, European opera and literature, and more. The book shows that the three religious traditions have formed sensorial regimes: embodied habits, traditions and standards for seeing, sensing, displaying, and figuring that which could not, or should not, be seen. So, the desire for seeing the invisible and experiencing the beyond are paradoxically confirmed, contested and controlled, by the sensorial regimes in vogue. This carries over even into secularized use of religious figurations in arts and literature. Figurations and Sensations of the Unseen is important reading for scholars of anthropology, religious studies, Jewish studies, Christian studies, Islamic studies, art history, cultural studies, biblical studies and archaeology."--Bloomsbury Publishing
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Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.5040/9781350078666
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