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Figurations and Sensations of the Unseen in Judaism, Christianity and Islam - Contested Desires (Hardcover)
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Figurations and Sensations of the Unseen in Judaism, Christianity and Islam - Contested Desires (Hardcover)
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Material Religion
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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.
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