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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."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
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What makes an image offensive? - This question is addressed in this volume. It explores tensions and debates about offensive images and performative practices in various settings in and beyond Europe. Its basic premise is that a deeper understanding of what is at stake in these tensions and debates calls for a multidisciplinary conversation. The authors focus on images that appear to trigger strongly negative reactions; images that are perceived as insulting or offensive; those subject to taboos and restrictions; or those that are condemned as blasphemous. In light of recurrent acts of violence leveled against images and symbols in the contemporary, globally entangled world, addressing instances of "icono-clash" (Bruno Latour) from a new post-secular, global perspective has become a matter of urgency.
Religion and culture --- Blasphemy --- Religious pluralism --- Social aspects. --- Freedom of speech --- Libel and slander --- Offenses against religion --- Pluralism (Religion) --- Pluralism --- Religion --- Religions --- Culture and religion --- Culture --- Postsäkularismus --- post-sekular --- visual culture --- religious conflict --- post-secularism --- post-secular --- populäre Ästhetik --- popular aesthetics --- politics of representation --- offensive images --- museums --- Museen --- Medienwissenschaft --- Literaturwissenschaft --- literary studies --- Kunstwissenschaft --- Kulturwissenschaft --- Islam --- imaging gender --- Hinduismus --- Hinduism --- Glaubenskonflikt --- Filmwissenschaft --- cultural studies --- co-existence --- anstößige Bilder --- artistic research --- Artistic Research --- Bildpolitik --- Bildwissenschaft --- Blasphemie --- blasphemy --- Christentum --- Christianity --- the arts --- Blasphemy.
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"This book is open access and available on www.bloomsburycollections.com. It is funded by Utrecht University and the Max Planck Society. Understanding religion from a material and corporeal angle, this book addresses the ways in which refugees practice their religions and convert or develop new faiths. It also evaluates how secular institutions in Europe frame and determine what is classified as religion according to the law, and delineate the limits of religious authority, religious practice, and religious speech. The question of nationalism and migration has been shaping the political landscape in Europe for more than a decade, resulting in a nationalist upsurge. This volume places the current trajectories of people from Asia and Africa who flee from conditions such as oppression and conflict, and who are seeking refuge in Europe in a broader historical and comparative perspective. In so doing, it addresses past experiences in Europe with the role of religion in both producing and accommodating refugees, in the aftermath of the Peace of Westphalia, World War II, and in the context of the Cold War."
Refugees --- Religious life --- Europe --- Emigration and immigration --- Religious aspects. --- Social conditions --- Religion --- Economic aspects.
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