Exploring Aniconism

ISBN-13: 9780367357764 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 170 str.

Mikael Aktor; Milette Gaifman

Opis

This book explores the phenomenon of aniconism—the denotation of the presence of gods, saints, or spiritual forces using non-figural visual markers that do not resemble these supranatural entities. It was originally published as a special issue of the Religion journal.

Spis treści

1. Aniconism: definitions, examples and comparative perspectives  2. Aniconism and the origins of palaeoart  3. The real presence of Osiris: iconic, semi-iconic and aniconic ritual representations of an Egyptian god  4. Aniconic propaganda in the Hebrew Bible, or: the possible birth of religious seriousness  5. Aniconism in the first centuries of Christianity  6. The royal veil: early Islamic figural art and the Bilderverbot reconsidered  7. Stone-agency: sense, sight and magical efficacy in traditions of the Highlands and Islands of Scotland  8. Śiva’s multiplicity of presence in aniconic and iconic form  9. Drawing out the iconic in the aniconic: worship of neem trees and Govardhan stones in Northern India  10. The Hindu pañcāyatanapūjā in the aniconism spectrum