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Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (Saner) Ser.: Materiality of Divine Agency by Karen Sonik (2015, Hardcover)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherDE Gruyter, Inc.

ISBN-101501510681

ISBN-139781501510687

eBay Product ID (ePID)219441124

Product Key Features

Number of Pages257 Pages

Publication NameMateriality of Divine Agency

LanguageEnglish

SubjectAncient / General, General, History / Ancient & Classical, History, Sociology of Religion

Publication Year2015

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaArt, Religion, Philosophy, Social Science, History

AuthorKaren Sonik

SeriesStudies in Ancient Near Eastern Records (Saner) Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight17.9 Oz

Item Length9.1 in

Item Width6.1 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN2015-027533

Reviews"Insgesamt bieten die Beiträge ein interessantes Spektrum von Untersuchungen zur Materialität und göttlichen Akteurschaft aus der Perspektive der Altorientalistik." Reettakaisa Sofia Salo in: Orientalistische Literaturzeitung 113/2 (2018), 125-127

TitleLeadingThe

Dewey Edition23

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

Series Volume Number8

IllustratedYes

Grade ToCollege Graduate Student

Dewey Decimal202/.117

SynopsisTwo topics of current critical interest, agency and materiality, are here explored in the context of their intersection with the divine. Specific case studies, emphasizing the ancient Near East but including treatments also of the European Middle Ages and ancient Greece, elucidate the nature and implications of this intersection: What is the relationship between the divine and the particular matter or physical form in which it is materially represented or mentally visualized? How do sacral or divine "things" act, and what is the source and nature of their agency? How might we productively define and think about anthropomorphism in relation to the divine? What is the relationship between the mental and the material image, and between the categories of object and image, image and likeness, and likeness and representation? Drawing on a broad range of written and pictorial sources, this volume is a novel contribution to the contemporary discourse on the functioning and communicative potential of the material and materialized divine as it is developing in the fields of anthropology, art history, and the history and cognitive science of religion.

LC Classification NumberBL65.C8M364 2015