Numinous Fields: Perceiving the Sacred in Nature, Landscape, and Art / / edited by Samer Akkach, John Powell.

• Superior document: Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024
• TeilnehmendeR: Akkach, Samer,; Powell, John,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2024.; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (414 pages)

Numinous Fields has its roots in a phenomenological understanding of perception. It seeks to understand what, beyond the mere sensory data they provide, landscape, nature, and art, both separately and jointly, may mean when we experience them. It focuses on actual or potential experiences of the numinous, or sacred, that such encounters may give rise to. This volume is multi-disciplinary in scope. It examines perceptions of place, space, nature, and art as well as perceptions of place, space, and nature in art. It includes chapters written by art curators, and historians and scholars in the fields of landscape, architecture, cultural geography, religious studies, philosophy, and art. Its chapters examine ideas, objects, and practices from the ancient time of Aboriginal Australians’ Dreaming through to the present. The volume is also multi-cultural in scope and includes chapters focussed on manifestations of the sacred in indigenous culture, in cultures influenced by each of the world’s major religions, and in the secular, contemporary world. Foreword by Jeff Malpas Contributors: Samer Akkach, James Bennett, Veronica della Dora, Alasdair Forbes, Virginia Hooker, Philip Jones, Russell Kelty, Muchammadun,Tracey Lock, Ellen Philpott-Teo, John Powell, Rebekah Pryor, Wendy Shaw.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Preliminary Material / Jeff Malpas -- Part 1 Understanding: Universal Presence -- Chapter 1 ‘Something that has no Origin’: The Numinous in Aboriginal Australia / Philip Jones -- Chapter 2 ‘Handling the Universe as a Lyre’: Numinosity and Metaphor in the Patristic Contemplation of Creation / Veronica della Dora -- Chapter 3 This World and the Next: Expressions of Creation and Judgement Day in Indonesian Quran-Framed Art / Virginia Hooker -- Part 2 Blessing: Devotional Practices -- Chapter 4 Devotion from Afar: Visualising India in Japan / Russell Kelty -- Chapter 5 Resurrecting the Numinous: Museums and the Art of Recognising Blessings / Wendy M.K. Shaw -- Part 3 Belief: Sacred Manifestations -- Chapter 6 Sacred Allusions: Spiritual and Temporal Powers in Indonesian Arboreal Imagery / James Bennett -- Chapter 7 Sacred Waters: the Lingsar Site among Lombok’s Hindu-Muslim Community / Muchammadun -- Part 4 Retrospection: The Mind and the Heart -- Chapter 8 Numinosity, Humanity, and the Landscape of Desire: Re-Scoping the Sacred in Late 17th-Century Damascus / Samer Akkach -- Chapter 9 The Blur: Unveiling the Ineffable in the Art of Clarice Beckett / Tracey Lock -- Chapter 10 Plaz Metaxu: The Place that is Between / Alasdair Forbes -- Part 5 Rediscovery: Modern Reflections -- Chapter 11 Landscapes beyond the Pale: Experiencing the Genius Loci / John Powell -- Chapter 12 Materials in Tension: Assemblage and the Art of Revelation / Rebekah Pryor -- Chapter 13 Science and the Numinosity of Beauty: Beyond Culture and Religion / Ellen Philpott-Teo -- Back Matter -- Index.