Representation in religion : studies in honor of Moshe Barasch
"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."--Jacket
Studies in the history of religions, 89, v. 89
Aufsatzsammlung
xvii, 363 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
9789004119390, 9004119396
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The idol in the icon: some ambiguities / M. Barasch
Two kinds of representation in Greek religious art / M. Finkelberg
The truth of images: Cicero and Varro on image worship / H. Cancik and H. Cancik-Lindemaier
Portraits, likenesses and looking glasses: some literary and philosophical reflections on representation and art in medieval India / P. Granoff
Indian image-worship and its discontents / R.H. Davis
The 'iconic' and 'aniconic' Buddha visualization in medieval Chinese Buddhism / K. Shinohara
Jewish artists and the representation of God / H. Künzl
Jewish art and 'iconoclasm': the case of Sepphoris / B. Kühnel
Literarische und visuelle Hermeneutik oder die Unmöglichkeit der Ikone Gottes / A.R.E. Agus
Torah: between presence and representation of the divine in Jewish mysticism / M. Idel
Representations of the Jewish body in modern times: forms of hero worship / R.I. Cohen
Monumental mockery: sacred regality and dramatic representation in early modern England / J.R. Siemon
Pictures versus letters: William Warburton's theory of grammatological iconoclasm / J. Assmann
The roots of modern iconoclasm / A. Besançon
The absent artist / P. Springer
Iconoclasm on the 20th century musical stage (Schönberg, Henze and Glass) / W.-D. Hartwich
Papers presented during the 1997 conference held in Heidelberg, Germany, on the topic of religious anthropology in honor of Moshe Barasch, a leader in the field of history of art