Approaches to the Visual in Religion

Edited by Daria Pezzoli-Olgiati and Christopher Rowland.

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 seek to show that visual sources need to be interpreted from different angles. With 18 contributions by Anna-Katharina Höpflinger, Melanie J. Wright, Monika Glavac et al. 268 Seiten mit 81 Abb., gebunden (Research in contemporary religion; Vol. 10/Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2011) leichte Lagerspuren, Archivexemplarstempel auf Kopfschnitt/minor shelfwear, archive copy stamp on head cut