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Approaches to the Visual in Religion
. Ed(S): Pezzoli-Olgiati, Daria; Rowland, Christopher
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Hardback. Investigates the analysis of visual sources and their indispensable role for understanding and interpreting religions, their symbol systems, and the wider traditions of which they are a part. This study focuses on the methodological challenge of images from a comparative perspective. Editor(s): Pezzoli-Olgiati, Daria; Rowland, Christopher. Num Pages: 268 pages, illus. BIC Classification: HRLB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 236 x 185 x 20. Weight in Grams: 576.
The authors of this volume investigate the analysis of visual sources and their indispensable role for understanding and interpreting religions, their symbol systems, and the wider traditions of which they are a part. A particular interest in this study is the focus on the methodological challenge of images from a comparative perspective. The common concern that ranges over all the contributions is the search for a methodological perspective where images may be analysed in a comprehensive way, with particular regard for the social, and wider intellectual settings, as well as the religious, in which the images are embedded. Accordingly, we ... Read more
The authors of this volume investigate the analysis of visual sources and their indispensable role for understanding and interpreting religions, their symbol systems, and the wider traditions of which they are a part. A particular interest in this study is the focus on the methodological challenge of images from a comparative perspective. The common concern that ranges over all the contributions is the search for a methodological perspective where images may be analysed in a comprehensive way, with particular regard for the social, and wider intellectual settings, as well as the religious, in which the images are embedded. Accordingly, we ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht GmbH & Co KG Germany
Number of pages
268
Condition
New
Number of Pages
268
Place of Publication
, Germany
ISBN
9783525604427
SKU
V9783525604427
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About . Ed(S): Pezzoli-Olgiati, Daria; Rowland, Christopher
Dr. theol. Christopher Rowland is Dean Ireland Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture at the University of Oxford. Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati is Professor of Religious Studies and Religious History at the Evangelical Theological Faculty of the University of Munich.
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