Representation in Religion, : Studies in Honor of Moshe Barasch.

• Superior document: Studies in the history of religions ; 89
• Author: Jan Assmann; Albert I. Baumgartner (Editors)
• TeilnehmendeR: Barasch, Moshe.; Assmann, Jan.; Baumgarten, Albert I.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, , Boston: : Brill, , 2001.
• Year of Publication: 2001
• Language: English
• Series: Numen Book Series 89.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 363 pages) :; illustrations.
• Notes: Papers presented during the 1997 conference held in Heidelberg, Germany, on the topic of religious anthropology in honor of Moshe Barasch, a leader in the field of history of art.

The role of representation in religion is complex. While often perceived as essential, it is also associated in many traditions with the liability of idolatry and provokes iconoclasm. The essays in this volume examine the nuances of representation in religion and the debate concerning its place across a variety of traditions from the three Abrahamic faiths, to those of antiquity and the East. This volume consists of presentations made at an international conference held in honor of Moshe Barasch, art historian and cultural critic, who has done much to elucidate the light which representation and religion shed on each other. It pays tribute to Barasch by expanding the base of understanding and insight he has erected. It should be of interest to students of religion and of art history.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Jan Assmann and Albert I. Baumgarten -- The Idol in the Icon: Some Ambiguities / Moshe Barasch -- Two Kinds of Representation in Greek Religious Art / Margalit Finkelberg -- The Truth of Images: Cicero and Varro on Image Worship / Hubert Cancik and Hildegard Cancik-Lindemaier -- Portraits, Likenesses and Looking Glasses: Some Literary and Philosophical Reflections on Representation and Art in Medieval India / Phyllis Granoff -- Indian Image-Worship and its Discontents / Richard H. Davis -- The ‘Iconic’ and ‘Aniconic’ Buddha Visualization in Medieval Chinese Buddhism / Koichi Shinohara -- Jewish Artists and the Representation of God / Hannelore Künzl -- Jewish Art and ‘Iconoclasm’: The Case of Sepphoris / Bianca Kühnel -- Literarische und visuelle Hermeneutik oder die Unmöglichkeit der Ikone Gottes / Aharon R.E. Aaus -- Torah: Between Presence and Representation of the Divine in Jewish Mysticism / Moshe ldel -- Representations of the Jewish Body in Modern Times: Forms of Hero Worship / Richard I. Cohen -- Monumental Mockery: Sacred Regality and Dramatic Representation in Early Modern England / James R. Siemon -- Pictures versus Letters: William Warburton’s Theory of Grammatological Iconoclasm / Jan Assmann -- The Roots of Modern Iconoclasm / Alain Besançon -- The Absent Artist / Peter Springer -- Iconoclasm on the 20th Century Musical Stage (Schönberg, Henze and Glass) / Wolf-Daniel Hartwich -- Index of Names and Subjects / Jan Assmann and Albert I. Baumgarten -- Contributors / Jan Assmann and Albert I. Baumgarten -- Studies in the History of Religions Numen Book Series / Jan Assmann and Albert I. Baumgarten.