Exploring Aniconism

ISBN-13: 9781032085920 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 180 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

O autorze

Mikael Aktor is an Associate Professor in Studies of Religions at the University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark. His publications include Object of Worship in South Asian Religions (with Knuth Jacobsen and Kristina Myrvold, 2015). His other research area is the study of ancient and medieval Hindu law.

Milette Gaifman is an Associate Professor in Classics and History of Arts at Yale University, New Haven, USA. Her publications include Aniconism in Greek Antiquity (2012), The Art of Libation in Classical Athens (2018), and ‘The Embodied Object in Classical Art’, a special issue of Art History (co-edited with Verity Platt and Michael Squire, 2018).