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APPROACHES TO THE VISUAL IN RELIGION


Visual media have been and remain a central aspect of religious communication. The essays in the edited volume Approaches to the Visual in Religion (2011) investigate visual sources and analyse their indispensable role for understanding and interpreting religions, their symbol systems, and the wider traditions of which they are a part. The collection addresses in particular the methodological challenges of adopting a comparative perspective for images. All the contributions consider in some way how images can be analysed comprehensively, particularly with regard to social and intellectual settings and the religions in which the images are embedded. Accordingly, the volume demonstrates that visual sources require varied approaches that reach beyond the visual elements to consider also origins, material aspects and hermeneutical effects.


Approaches to the Visual in Religion (Göttingen: V&R 2011)

 

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