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Title

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

Names

  • Meyer, Birgit, 1960 March 21- editor
  • Stordalen, Terje, 1958- editor

Created / Published

  • [New York, NY] : Bloomsbury Academic, [2019]

Contents

  • Introduction : figurations and sensations of the unseen in Judaism, Christianity and Islam / Birgit Meyer, Terje Stordalen -- Imagining Solomon's temple : aesthetics of the non-representable / Terje Stordalen -- Seeing with the ear, recognizing with the heart : rethinking the ontology of the mimetic arts in Islam / Wendy M K. Shaw -- The hypericon of the Golden Calf / Yvonne Sherwood -- Idolatry beyond the second commandment : conflicting figurations and sensations of the unseen / Birgit Meyer -- Beyond 'image ban' and 'aniconism' : reconfiguring ancient Israelite and early Jewish religionin a visual and material religion perspective / Christoph Uehlinger -- Visual images in medieval Jewish culture before the age of art / Kalman P. Bland -- Real absence : imagining God in Turco-Persian book arts, 1300-1600 CE / Christiane J. Gruber -- Aesthetic sensations of Mary : the miraculous icon of Meryem Ana and the dynamics of interreligious relations in Antakya / Jens Kreinath -- The Ahl-i Beyt bodies : the mural paintings of Lahijan in the tradition of Persian Shiite figurations / Pedram Khosronejad -- Photographic practices and the 'aesthetics of withdrawal' among Muslims of the East African coast / Heike Behrend -- Moulded imaginaries : icons, idols and the sensory environments of Eastern Orthodox Christianity / Sonja Luehrmann -- From Ponte Sant'Angelo to Basilica di San Pietro : figuration and sensation in Bernini's pilgrimage route in Rome / Øyvind Norderval -- Figuration and 'aesthetics of the sublime': aspects of their interplay in Christian art / Else Marie Bukdahl -- Seeing, hearing and narrating Salome : modernist sensual aesthetics and the role of narrative blanks / Ulrike Brunotte -- The art of incarnation : loss and return of religion in Houellebecq's Submission / Christiane Kruse.

Headings

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

Notes

  • -  Includes bibliographical references and index.
  • -  Description partially based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on 09/14/2020)

Medium

  • 1 online resource (xiv, 331 pages)

Call Number/Physical Location

  • NX180.R4

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Library of Congress Control Number

  • 2020426020

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  • Unrestricted online access

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  • pdf

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Chicago citation style:

Meyer, Birgit, 1960 March 21- Editor, and Terje Stordalen. Figurations and sensations of the unseen in Judaism, Christianity and Islam: contested desires. [New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019] Pdf. https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2020426020/.

APA citation style:

Meyer, B. & Stordalen, T. (2019) Figurations and sensations of the unseen in Judaism, Christianity and Islam: contested desires. [New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic] [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://aj.sunback.homes/item/2020426020/.

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Meyer, Birgit, 1960 March 21- Editor, and Terje Stordalen. Figurations and sensations of the unseen in Judaism, Christianity and Islam: contested desires. [New York, NY: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019] Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, <aj.sunback.homes/item/2020426020/>.