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Transcultural Imaginations of the Sacred

Klaus Krüger, Margit Kern (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

286 Seiten

2019 | 2019
Brill | Fink (Verlag)
978-3-7705-5630-4 (ISBN)

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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?

Erscheint lt. Verlag	10.5.2019
Reihe/Serie	Berliner Schriften zur Kunst
Sprache	englisch; deutsch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	638 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften
Schlagworte	Das Heilige / heilig • Identity • Imagination • imaginations • Kern • Krüger • missionary activity • missionary activity, • Profane • religious symbols • sacral • Sacred • transcultural
ISBN-10	3-7705-5630-5 / 3770556305
ISBN-13	978-3-7705-5630-4 / 9783770556304
Zustand	Neuware