Representation in Religion: Studies in Honour of Moshe Barasch

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Moshé Barash, Jan Assmann, Albert I. Baumgarten
BRILL, Jan 1, 2001 - Art - 363 pages
The role of representation in religion is complex. While often perceived as essential, it is also associated in many traditions with the liability of idolatry and provokes iconoclasm. The essays in this volume examine the nuances of representation in religion and the debate concerning its place across a variety of traditions from the three Abrahamic faiths, to those of antiquity and the East. This volume consists of presentations made at an international conference held in honor of Moshe Barasch, art historian and cultural critic, who has done much to elucidate the light which representation and religion shed on each other. It pays tribute to Barasch by expanding the base of understanding and insight he has erected. It should be of interest to students of religion and of art history.
 

Contents

Two Kinds of Representation in Greek Religious
27
Cicero and Varro on Image Worship
43
Some Literary
63
Indian ImageWorship and its Discontents
107
The Iconic and Aniconic Buddha Visualization in Medieval
133
Jewish Artists and the Representation of
149
Literarische und visuelle Hermeneutik oder die Unmöglichkeit
181
Between Presence and Representation of the Divine
197
Sacred Regality and Dramatic
277
William Warburtons Theory
297
The Roots of Modern Iconoclasm
313
The Absent Artist
321
Iconoclasm on the 20th Century Musical Stage Schönberg
331
Index of Names and Subjects
346
Contributors
361
Copyright

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Jan Assmann, D.Phil. (1965) and D.Habil. (1971), is Professor of Egyptology at the University of Heidelberg and member of the Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Heidelberg. He is the author of several books and essays on Ancient Egypt, religion and cultural theory. Albert I. Baumgarten, Ph.D. (1972), Colombia University, is Professor of Jewish History; Director, Jacob Taubes Minerva Center for Religious Anthropology, Bar Ilan University. He has published "The Flourishing of Jewish Sects in the Maccabean Era: An Interpretation" (Brill, 1997), "Self, Soul and Body in Religious Experience "(Brill, 1998) and "Apocalyptic Time" (Brill, 2000).