Figurations and sensations of the unseen in Judaism, Christianity and Islam : contested desires

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Label

Figurations and sensations of the unseen in Judaism, Christianity and Islam : contested desires

Title remainder

contested desires

Statement of responsibility

edited by Birgit Meyer and Terje Stordalen

Contributor

• Meyer, Birgit
• Stordalen, Terje, 1958-

Editor

• Meyer, Birgit
• Stordalen, Terje, 1958-

Subject

• Aesthetics -- Religious aspects | Christianity
• Aesthetics -- Religious aspects | Christianity
• Aesthetics -- Religious aspects | Islam
• Aesthetics -- Religious aspects | Islam
• Aesthetics -- Religious aspects | Judaism
• Arts and religion
• Arts and religion
• Spirituality in art
• Spirituality in art

Language

eng

Summary

This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by the University of Oslo and Utrecht University. Judaism, Christianity and Islam are known to privilege words over images. This book shows, however, that the reality is more complex. Figurations and Sensations of the Unseen explores the complex procedures used to render the invisible as visible and the elusive as tangible in these three traditions. Working from different disciplinary angles, contributors reflect on figuration and sensation in biblical culture, medieval Jewish culture, the imagination of the unseen in Islamic settings, Christian assaults on 'idolatry' in Africa, baroque and modern Church art, contemporary Eastern Orthodox tradition, photography on the East African coast, European opera and literature, and more. The book shows that the three religious traditions have formed sensorial regimes: embodied habits, traditions and standards for seeing, sensing, displaying, and figuring that which could not, or should not, be seen. So, the desire for seeing the invisible and experiencing the beyond are paradoxically confirmed, contested and controlled, by the sensorial regimes in vogue. This carries over even into secularized use of religious figurations in arts and literature. Figurations and Sensations of the Unseen is important reading for scholars of anthropology, religious studies, Jewish studies, Christian studies, Islamic studies, art history, cultural studies, biblical studies and archaeology

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

201/.67

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

LC call number

NX180.R4

LC item number

F54 2019

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Bloomsbury studies in material religion