Transcultural Imaginations of the Sacred / Alessandra Malquori, Ebba Koch, Amy Landau, Amy Neff, Avinoam Shalem, Christine Ungruh, Alberto Savillo, Julia Kloss-Weber, Amrei Buchholz, Jens Baumgarten, Gabriela Siracusano, Klaus Krüger, Margit Kern, Gregor Stemmrich, Klaus Krüger

• Superior document: Berliner Schriften zur Kunst
• Author: Transcultural Imaginations of the Sacred (Conference) Berlin, Germany),
• MitwirkendeR: Malquori, Alessandra; Koch, Ebba; Landau, Amy; Neff, Amy; Shalem, Avinoam; Ungruh, Christine; Savillo, Alberto; Kloss-Weber, Julia; Buchholz, Amrei; Baumgarten, Jens; Siracusano, Gabriela
• HerausgeberIn: Krüger, Klaus; Kern, Margit; Stemmrich, Gregor
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English; German
• Series: Berliner Schriften zur Kunst.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Foreword /; Transcultural Imaginations of the Sacred. Changing Perceptions of Alterity in Processes of Transcultural Negotiation /; “Americana Thebaida” /; The Tipping Point in Mimesis /; Cracks and Clefts /; Conflict and Negotiation in Transcultural Processes in Colonial Brazil, or: /; Conceptions of Space in the Missionary Periodical /; The Holy Man’s Cave /; Charismatic Desert Saints /; Borrowing Figurative Patterns /; Aesthetics of Resistance /; Being like Jesus and Mary /; Seeing Beyond Form /; Plates /; List of Contributors /; Index /
• ISBN: 384675630X
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Alessandra Malquori, Ebba Koch, Amy Landau, Amy Neff, Avinoam Shalem, Christine Ungruh, Alberto Savillo, Julia Kloss-Weber, Amrei Buchholz, Jens Baumgarten, Gabriela Siracusano, Klaus Krüger, Margit Kern, Gregor Stemmrich, Klaus Krüger

Although we tend to suggest that clear constructions of identity are granted to religious symbols under the assumption that they distinguish between self and other explicitly, perceptions of alterity in fact play a vital role in sacral forms of representation. Markers of foreignness are used in a semantics of the exceptional that characterizes the sacral. Perceptions of difference are thus capable of making visible the remoteness of sacral forms from the profane world of experience. This book, therefore, asks: What role do traits of alterity play in the sacral context? How are various concepts of the sacred synthesized in situations of transcultural translation, for instance in the context of missionary activity? How did an artifact arrive at sacral potency in various cultures, and under what conditions did semantic shifts occur?