Incarnations: The Materiality of the Religious Gazes in Hindu and Byzantine Icons

This study reflects on the current "material turn" in religious studies, in particular on the issue of material agency. Some scholars, such as Ingold and Latour, have seen the concept as both a form of naivety and anthropocentrism. On the other hand, exponents of the so-called "new ma...

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Main Author: Gamberi, Valentina (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Taylor & Francis [2017]
In: Material religion
Year: 2017, Volume: 13, Issue: 2, Pages: 206-230
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Byzantine Empire / Art / Icon / Gaze / Hinduism
RelBib Classification:AG Religious life; material religion
BK Hinduism, Jainism, Sikhism
KBL Near East and North Africa
KDF Orthodox Church
Further subjects:B Indian storytelling
B extramission
B focal object
B Flesh
B Icons
B material agency
B Darśan
B phenomenology of vision
Online Access: Volltext (Verlag)