Exploring Aniconism - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1032085924 ISBN 13: 9781032085920

Verlag: Routledge, 2021

Inhaltsangabe

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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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).

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Routledge
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2021
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1032085924
• ISBN 13: 9781032085920
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 180
• Herausgeber: Aktor Mikael, Gaifman Milette
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