Empires of Faith in Late Antiquity (eBook, PDF)

Histories of Art and Religion from India to Ireland
Redaktion: Elsner, Jas

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Produktbeschreibung

This book reveals the rewards of exploring the relationship between art and religion in the first millennium, and the particular problems of comparing the visual cultures of different emergent and established religions of the period in Eurasia - Buddhism, Hinduism, Zoroastrianism, Islam, Judaism, Christianity and the pagan religions of the Roman world. Most of these became established and remained in play as what are called 'the world religions'. The chapters in this volume show how the long traditions of studying these topics are caught up in complex local, ancestral, colonial and post-colonial discourses and biases, which have made comparison difficult. The study of Late Antiquity turns out also to be an examination of the intellectual histories of modernity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781108648783
• Artikelnr.: 66180853

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction Jä Elsner; Part I. The Imperial Context: 2. The Gandharan
problem Robert Bracey; 3. Writing the art, archaeology and religion of the
Roman Mediterranean Philippa Adrych and Dominic Dalglish; 4. Mystery cult
and material culture in the Graeco-Roman world Philippa Adrych and Dominic
Dalglish; 5. The Viennese invention of late antiquity: between politics and
religion in the forms of late Roman art Jä Elsner; 6. The rise of Byzantine
art and archaeology in late Imperial Russia Maria Lidova; 7. Ferdinand
Piper's Monumentale Theologie (1867) and Schleiermacher's legacy: the
attempted foundation of a Protestant theology of art Stefanie Lenk; Part
II. After Imperialism: Orientalism and its Resistances; 8. The road from
decadence: agendas and personal histories in the rise of early Islamic art
Nadia Ali; 9. Connecting art and Zoroastrianism in Sasanian studies Rachel
Wood; 10. 'Hindu' art and the primordial ¿iva Robert Bracey; Part III.
Post-colonialist, Old Colonialist and Nationalist Fantasies: 11. Jewish
art: before and after the Jewish state (1948) Jesse Lockard and Jä Elsner;
12. Whose history is it anyway? Contests for India's past in the twentieth
century Robert Bracey; 13. Acculturated natives who rebel: revivalist,
Ottomanist and Pan-Arabist engagements with early Islamic art (1876-1930s)
Nadia Ali; 14. Barbarians at the British Museum: Anglo-Saxon art, race and
religion Katherine Cross.